Email Not Recognizing Output

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I am trying to send an email but the email is not recognizing the output when stored in a string variable.

The result from sending email:

Code that is stored in string variable:

<p><a href="@{outputs('Compose_Link')[0]}">@{split(outputs('Compose_Articles')[0], outputs('Compose_Newline'))[2]}</a><br /><em>@{trim(split(outputs('Compose_Articles')[0], outputs('Compose_Newline'))[0])}, @{split(outputs('Compose_Articles')[0], outputs('Compose_Newline'))[1]}<br /></em>@{split(outputs('Compose_Articles')[0], outputs('Compose_Newline'))[3]}</p>

Code if manually typed in email body (result I want to get):

How can I go about having the email to recognize my outputs without manually copy-pasting in email?

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Re: Email Not Recognizing Output

Hi @purpur,

Can you share a screenshot of your variable action. Just want to make sure that the expressions are actually recognized as expression and not just as plain text.

If all goes well the expression should be shown with the fx icon in your initialize variable action. See an example of that below:

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Re: Email Not Recognizing Output

Hi @Expiscornovus,

This is the variable initialized at the start of flow:

This append to string variable inside an Apply to each:

You might be right as it is being recognized as plain text when I use the dynamic content, Email Body, in Send an email. Any way to solve this?

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Re: Email Not Recognizing Output

Hi @purpur,

Can you check the Append to string variable action in edit mode instead of the flow history. Do you see that the functions like split, trim are shown as expressions or just as regular text?

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Re: Email Not Recognizing Output

Hi @Expiscornovus,

Yes, they are showing as expressions

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Re: Email Not Recognizing Output

Hi @purpur,

Ok, that looks good. Can we troubleshoot the expressions itself.

So, for instance the expression for the label of the hyperlink. What is the value you are inputting and what value are you expecting to get out of it?

split(outputs('Compose_Articles')[0], outputs('Compose_Newline'))[2]

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Re: Email Not Recognizing Output

Hi @Expiscornovus,

This is the expected email to receive:

This is to get from first word doc (array index 0) and split this doc line by line (Compose_Newline) and array index [2] in this case to determine which line of text to input.
split(outputs('Compose_Articles')[0], outputs('Compose_Newline'))[2]

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Re: Email Not Recognizing Output

Hi @purpur,

Thanks for clarifying what you want to achieve.

Can you share the values (or screenshots) of the compose articles and compose new line actions of the flow history run which didn't work as expected?

Just want to double check if I can retrieve that hyperlink label field value with the same split expression.

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Re: Email Not Recognizing Output

Word docx is converted to txt file using Encodian's Convert Word
base64ToString(outputs('Convert_Word')?['body/FileContent'])

Compose Newline, to use to split whenever there is a newline
decodeUriComponent('%0A')

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Re: Email Not Recognizing Output

Hi @purpur,

Within that Compose Articles action you are converting the file content into a string. However, in your append to string variable action you are referring to the first item of an array.

That setup errors in my test because it is a string and not an array.

Can you try and use the compose articles with the [0] index reference?

split(outputs('Compose_Articles'), outputs('Compose_Newline'))[2]

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Re: Email Not Recognizing Output

This is the code in Append to string variable (Email Body) in an Apply to each.
I choose to use variables('Count') so it can be dynamic.
concat('<a href="@{outputs(''Compose_Link'')[', variables('Count'), ']}">', '@{split(outputs(''Compose_Articles'')[', variables('Count'), ']', ', outputs(''Compose_Newline''))[2]}</a> @{trim(split(outputs(''Compose_Articles'')[',variables('Count'), ']',', outputs(''Compose_Newline''))[0])}, @{split(outputs(''Compose_Articles'')[',variables('Count'), ']',', outputs(''Compose_Newline''))[1]} @{split(outputs(''Compose_Articles'')[',variables('Count'), ']',', outputs(''Compose_Newline''))[3]}')
But when I use Email Body variable, it does not recognize the variable and instead sends as a plain text.

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