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Add date (yyyy-MM-dd) during saving attachment to sharepoint create flow

Hi,

I am trying to create a workflow to save files from my email to a SharePoint folder but I need to add current date to the workflow.

I send daily backup from a different app we use and I want the attachment to save when the email arrives without me having to go in and save them everytime.

The attachments are in .xlxs and I am missing a step in my flow.

The file is saving but the format is all wrong. Please see attached and kindly help with suggestion on how to go about it.

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Business Process Flows

It looks like you are missing the file extension in the File Name field.

You might be interested in this YT Tutorial: Save Email Attachments to SharePoint with Microsoft Power Automate

Power Automate doesn’t have a download attachment from outlook action. In this Power Automate Video tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the Get Attachment (V2) action in combination with the Create File action to get your email attachments onto SharePoint. The Create File action will overwrite any files that already exist with the same name. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can append a timestamp to the end of a file name to prevent your file from being overwritten.

I’ll also show you how to set up your flow so that you can trigger it manually while building it so you don’t need to wait for an email to arrive. At the end of the video I’ll show you how adding trigger conditions to your flow can prevent it from triggering if certain conditions aren’t met.

Although the final flow uses the When a new email arrives in a shared mailbox (V2) trigger, you can use any of the When a new email arrives triggers for your flow. Adjust this flow to suit your needs!

IN THIS VIDEO:

✅ How to Automate Downloading and Uploading Email Attachments to SharePoint
✅ How to Use a the Get Email (V2) action
✅ How to Use the Get Attachment (V2) action
✅ How to Create Attachment Files using the Create File Action
✅ How to Prevent the Create File Action from Overwriting a File
✅ How to use Split the Filename from its Extension
✅ How to Append a Timestamp to a File Name
✅ How to use the When a New Email Arrives in a Shared Mailbox (V2) trigger.
✅ How to use the Convert Time Zone action
✅ How to add Trigger Conditions to your Flow

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