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Error Action 'Send_an_email_(V2)' failed

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Posted on by CP-23011413-0
I am receiving an error that my flow has failed: 
 
The 'inputs.parameters' of workflow operation 'Send_an_email_(V2)' of type 'OpenApiConnection' is not valid. Error details: Input parameter 'emailMessage/To' is required to be of type 'String/email'. The runtime value '"Firstname.Lastname@mass.gov\n"' to be converted doesn't have the expected format 'string/email'.
 
I have built and used this exact same flow in the past for a different MS Form to email respondents without issue.  What am I doing wrong and what can I do to correct it?
 
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    Michael E. Gernaey Profile Picture
    Michael E. Gernaey 53,963 Moderator on at
     
    The issue is you have 
    Firstname.Lastname@mass.gov\n
     
    that is not a valid email since you have \n
     
    Either thats text and you can use replace('Firstname.Lastname@mass.gov\n', '\n', '')
     
    putting in your variable not the hard coded email
     
    Or you have to remove the carriage return by use decodeUriComponent to remove the encoded value that we can see.
     
    replace(yourvalue, decodeUriComponent('%0A'), '' )

    If these suggestions help resolve your issue, Please consider Marking the answer as such and also maybe a like.

    Thank you!
    Sincerely, Michael Gernaey
  • eliotcole Profile Picture
    eliotcole 4,390 Moderator on at
    It's the bit at the end ... it's somehow got a carriage return in there.
    This is likely not your fault, both new and old designers put stuff in that you didn't type all the time.
    Just have a few tries at resetting it and check the 'code view' of any trigger/action that you get this with. :-)
     
    So that you know, "\n" is a new line ...
     
    It looks like you also have speech marks / quotes in there, too, perhaps ... hard to tell ...

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