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I'm trying to send an email using Office 365 Outlook (Send an email (V2)) and am getting stuck adding an attachment to the email. I wasn't able to find any references on how to create a List of Custom Objects to enter in the attachment field. I'm just trying to send an email with an attachment saved on my desktop. Any help would be appreciated!

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Use the Get files in folder action with appropriate filters to only get the one file you want to send. This will result in a list of file objects (even if it's just one file). It will be accepted as attachments.
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Thanks Agnius! Any ideas on what the filter would be if the file path is being generated based on a for each loop. My filepath includes some variables from the loop (C:\Users\EV\Desktop\Certificates & EOIs\Merged\%CertHolder['Project Name']% - %InterestFileName% - ID%CertHolder['ID']%.pdf). This particular folder has about 300 pdfs that i'm trying to email out.

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Provide the exact name of the file in the file name filter and it will retrieve the one file.

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Still get that same error. It looks like that creates a 'list of files', but it requires a 'list of custom objects'. Closer than I was before though, lol.

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Okay, I guess I misled you there a bit. Sorry about that.
There's a special procedure to this.

See this guide on how to do it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/actions-reference/office365outlook#sending-an-email-with-attachments-with-office-365-outlook-preview-in-desktop-flows
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Wow, that seems overly complex for an attachment! I appreciate you sending the link, and thanks the guidance. I'll keep that handy going forward.

It got it to work, though there's actually a typo in the documentation. Looks like you need to enter the BinaryData variable within the quotation marks in the Contents attribute (they have it ""%BinaryData, and it should be "%BinaryData%".

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