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I am trying to figure out how to add a link to a teams message that will automatically create a new email in that users outlook with me as the to field and a specific subject, so they can click on it and it will create the draft email automatically. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance!

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Building flows

Hi @leave-me-alone,

You could use an adaptive card and click a button. After this button you could use an Graph API call to create the draft e-mail message.

I have blogged about that draft e-mail creation approach a couple of years ago:

https://www.expiscornovus.com/2021/04/14/draft-mail-message-for-a-selected-item/

Below is an example

1. A Get my profile (v2). This action collects the id and mail

2. A Post adaptive card and wait for the response

a. uses the json below for the Message field

{
 "$schema": "http://adaptivecards.io/schemas/adaptive-card.json",
 "type": "AdaptiveCard",
 "version": "1.0",
 "body": [
 {
 "type": "TextBlock",
 "size": "Medium",
 "weight": "Bolder",
 "id": "Title",
 "text": "Create Draft Email",
 "horizontalAlignment": "Left"
 } 
 ],
 "actions": [
 {
 "type": "Action.Submit",
 "title": "Create Draft Email"
 }
 ]
}

3. A Send an HTTP request (Office 365 Groups connector)

a. Uses the URI below

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/@{outputs('Get_my_profile_(V2)')?['body/id']}/messages

b. Uses the Body payload below

{
 "subject":"E-mail template flow",
 "importance":"Low",
 "body":{
 "contentType":"HTML",
 "content":"They were <b>awesome</b>!"
 },
 "toRecipients":[
 {
 "emailAddress":{
 "address":"@{outputs('Get_my_profile_(V2)')?['body/mail']}"
 }
 }
 ]
}