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Perform an action based on a substring in an email subject

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I am relatively new to Power Automate. I try to move an incoming email to a specific folder based on a sub string within the email subject. I tried to use the switch function using the contain function (contains(triggerOutputs()?['body/subject'])), but it doesn't work.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks

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Sundeep_Malik 6,484 on at

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Hey @m0w
To use contains you will have to match your subject to something. So, you can keep your folder names in a compose, in an array of string. For example:
A, B and C are your folders, then in the compose write ["A","B","C"]
Then store the subject of the current email in a compose.

After this use an apply to each, and give the output of folder's compose in the option field of apply to each. Inside this use a condition action. In the condition use
contains(triggerOutputs()?['body/subject'],items('Apply_to_each'))
and match it to true. When this does, save the mail to the required folder.

I hope this helps.

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m0w 2 on at

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Thank you, i think I understand it, but i think this doesn't apply to my case.
The folder names are different from the sub strings in the subject line that i am looking for.

e.g., if the subject contains 'GP', move the email in folder Inbox/XX/YY. If the subject contains 'QY', move the email to folder inbox/XX/ZZ.

All this in parallel to save the attachment on sharepoint, so i start using a 'When a new email arrives in a shared mailbox (V2)
But that part works well for me

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