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opening browser automatically / parse mail contents

Greetings guys

I hope someone can help me.

At the moment we are using a Outlook plugin which does the following:

When a message is selected and the outlook plugin is used (by pressing a button in the ribbon bar) the contents of the email gets parsed and a new sharepoint list item will be created with some of the infos of the mail put in the correct fields (in the mail there is a format like "Name: xx xx" and thats get read by the plugin and put in the correct sharepoint list fields).

At the end the message (as a MSG file) as well as attachments are added to the list item as well. Then the browser opens the list item in "edit mode".

Now we need to do this in PowerAutomate. The thing is: Does anyone have a tip how to do that? As far as I know there is no way to actively set a button in Outlook (desktop) which basically reads out the currently selected item and passes its content to flow. Even with PA Desktop I am only able to select item to either mark them as read or to check emails from an IMAP server. And also I couldnt find a way to open a standard browser with a link on the PC.

Anyone have a idea here? 🙂

Thanks

Rob

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