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How to set the "Attachment name" to be the actual file name when sending an email using Power Automate

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We have a Power Automate flow that gets the attachment from Microsoft Forms. For the attachment, Flow asks Attachment Name and Attachment Content. We are able to give a name to the Attachment name, and use the "Attachment" object from Forms to be the Attachment Content. However, we prefer the Attachment name to be the actual filename of the attachment, is there a way to do that?

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Hi @photonacl

You need to use Upload Attachments (JSON data). Declare a Parse JSON and generate the schema based on upload attachments data. Using this you should be able to get the filename.

Please see this video which explains how to get the filename and content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDW3ikTHu9U

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Thank you, I followed the video and it worked.

Just something to optimize things - Is it possible to somehow have the filename preserved as its original, instead of having "1, 2, 3, 4" appended after them if there are multiple files with the same file name got uploaded? This is trivial but thought it won't hurt to ask just in case you know something quick right on top on your head. But if not, this is perfectly fine.

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abm abm 32,865 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @photonacl

So in Forms can you upload multiple files with same filenames? Could you please explain?

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Sure I can explain, sorry for the confusion -

Because when multiple files are uploaded to the same OneDrive folder, over time, there are cases where two or more files may share the exact same file name, I think OneDrive is doing the job of renaming the files by appending indices. This eliminates the duplicated filename issue.

However, when I use Flow to pull the filename to be emailed, the file name may be already renamed with the the index number, instead of the original file name user uploaded.

Hope that makes sense.

Leon

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