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I would love to be able to create a flow that can read the body of the email not just subject or attahcments names. Once it can read the body of the text and find key words, extract some of this content. Identify if its a date or string and create a calendar event, etc.

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v-xida-msft on at

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Hi @Anonymous,

Could you please share an example about your scenario?

Do you want to extract content from body of the email?

I assume that the details of your incoming email as below and you want to extract the Subject and End time content from Body of the email:I have made a test on my side and please take a try with the following workaround:

Add a "When a new email arrives" trigger.

Add a "Html to text" action, Content field set to Body dynamic content of the trigger.

Add a "Compose" action, Inputs set to following formula:

length(body('Html_to_text'))
Add a "Compose 2" action, Inputs set to following formula:

add(indexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'End time'),10)

Add a "Compose 3" action, Inputs set to following formula:

substring(body('Html_to_text'),outputs('Compose_2'),sub(outputs('Compose'),outputs('Compose_2')))
Add a "Compose 4" action, Inputs set to following formula:

add(indexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'Subject'),9)
Add a "Compose 5" action, Inputs set to following formula:

indexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'Start time')
Add a "Compose 6" action, Inputs set to following formula:

substring(body('Html_to_text'),outputs('Compose_4'),sub(outputs('Compose_5'),outputs('Compose_4')))
Add a "Create event (V1)" action, specify Calendar id, End time field set to output of "Compose 3" action, Start time field set to following formula:

utcNow()

Subject field set to output of "Compose 6" action.

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The flow works successfully as below:

Best regards,

Kris

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Kris,

My apologies for the late reply. I appreciate how creative the proposed solution is!

Thank you,

JP

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Thanks for the detailed desciption, I tried to run it as described above but hot the following error;

The string was not recognized as a valid DateTime. There is an unknown word starting at index 10. clientRequestId: c7e6674c-5d20-458b-b65a-c692c6fef136

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WillPage 2,307 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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@v-xida-msft I know this is an old thread, but I found it while looking for a solution to the same problem.

The difference with mine is the data I'm looking for doesn't match a nice pattern that can be easily defined by say.. add(indexof ......), 10

For example the email has this data:

Enquiry from: Firstname Lastname Email: user@gmail.com Phone Number: 0299999876 First Night: Thursday, 17 January 2019
Number of Nights: 2
In each of these lines the number of characters to add to the indexof is different for each email.

How can I use a function to grab everything between the colon and the new line, trim it and place it in a variable?

I will also put this in a new thread.

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HallieG 81 on at

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Hi @Kris

Can you explain how to convert this example if the details repeated, how to loop through all iterations? I have a similar case, the number of items per email does very.

Outlook Calendar event details as below
Subject: FirstTestEvent
Start Time: 4/20/2019
End Time: 4/21/2019

Subject: SecondTestEvent
Start Time: 4/21/2019
End Time: 4/22/2019

Subject: ThirdTestEvent
Start Time: 4/22/2019
End Time: 4/23/2019

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WillPage 2,307 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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@HallieGUse the Split() expression to split on 'Subj' and then run the resulting array through a for-each.

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sxt173 7 on at

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Did you find any solutions to this? I'm trying to figure the same thing out. How to do this for data that might be a bit unstructured. For example, how do I grab whatever is between a "$" and ":" sign?

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Brammers 46 on at

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Hi! Did you ever find out how to do this? I'm facing the same issue.....

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Yanger 4 on at

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Anyone know how to do it as said in last posts here?

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WillPage 2,307 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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@Yanger @Brammers & @sxt173 Yes I have solved this. A long time ago I wrote a lengthy response in this thread with detailed steps and an explanation of how it all works. I spotted some typos, then did a couple of edits to fix them and it disappeared pending moderation. It has never re-appeared.

Probably enough time has passed to get over this immense frustration and I can re-do it. Maybe this weekend if I remember.

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