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I'm trying to dynamically get email adresses from a sharepoint to the "To" field in Send email action (positioned below showed apply for each).

Flow:

1. List files in OneDrive folder

2. Condition to check if any filenames contains keywords (DRIP and PVT in this case)

3. If yes - Get file content and append to array for attachment to Send Email, then move those files to a "Sent"-folder.

4. Send email with attachment

This works as intended.

But now I'm trying to dynamically get email adress instead of typing it out in the flow. I created a sharepoint list with several columns, two of them containing different keywords (field_ 3: DRIP, field_2: PVT).

field_1 contains the email adress.

Basically I want the flow to add email adress from sharepoint list matching the same keywords in the files handled in the loop.

If I have the Send Email action outside the loop I cant get the dynamic value from the "Get Items"-filter (which is inside the loop), and if I put the Send Email action INSIDE the loop I can choose the dynamic content from "Get Items" but then the Send Email action gets put into another "Apply for each" and the flow sends multiple emails if attached files are 2 or more.

If it's 3 files it sends 3 emails (email 1 with attachment 1, email 2 with att 1+2, email 3 with att 1+2+3).

Also dont really know the syntax for get items filter to give me the email adress if the keywords are matched.. 😞

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Hi @Anonymous ,

The send email action should be inside the loop, the point is you will get an array from "Get items" from SharePoint list. So, the solution will be:

1. Set filter query expression to:

substringof('DRIP',field_ 3) and substringof('PVT',field_2)

contains is not supported in Odata filter query:

https://sharepains.com/2018/11/12/sharepoint-get-items-odata-filter-query/

2. Initialize a string variable, use join function to concatenate all the filtered emails with a ";" and use it for the send email To parameter:

join(outputs('Get_items')?['body/value']?['field_1'],';')

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/workflow-definition-language-functions-reference#join

Hope this helps.

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Community Support Team _ Jeffer Ni
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But how do I stop the email from sending 20 times to the same adresses when it finds 20 files matching the filter? I had to put it outside the loop the prevent that.

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Hi @Anonymous ,

I thought there would not be duplicate values from the filtered items. If there are, you could add a variable, use union function the get the distinct values before the join function:

join(union(outputs('Get_items')?['body/value']?['field_1']),';')

Hope this helps.

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Got this error. Looks like it's because that column is "Multiple lines of text"? Can you only use "Single Line of text"? Makes no sense.

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Also:
It didn't output the email, only the same expression. So email recipient becomes "join(union(outputs...". Tried setting variable as array but didnt work either because "Set variable" writes in 'string'.

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In case it helps, here is the whole flow incl. sharepoint list. 😞

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Hi @Anonymous ,

Answer to the first question, Multi-lines of text columns are not supported for filter query, below is a blog where introduces a workaround:

https://tomriha.com/power-automate-filter-on-multiple-lines-of-text-sharepoint-column/

For the second question, the result you need to set in To property of Send an Email action is exact a sting:

a@123.com;b@123.com;c@123.com;

Hope this helps.

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Yes, I thought your join function would get the email(s) to the variable "DRIP mail", then I choose the variable in send email "To" field but it didn't work.

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