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Attaching list item attachment to email

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Dear All,

 

I was going through the below link to attach a list item's attachment to an email but wasn't able to get Append to array variable to work

https://www.techmeet360.com/blog/how-to-send-an-email-attachment-using-microsoft-flow/

 

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This is what i have used in the expression 

body('GetContent').$content
 
it gives me "Enter a valid json" error
  • kannan1 Profile Picture
    51 on at
    Re: Attaching list item attachment to email

    Thank you very much, I was able to get it to work just by adding attachment content as you suggested.

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    v-siky-msft Profile Picture
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    Re: Attaching list item attachment to email

    Hi @kannan1 ,

     

    Actually, after my test, I found the problem is that you only obtained the '$content' from Attachment content, however, '$content-type' is also required.

    Please just add 'Attachment Content' from dynamic content directly to the ContentBytes value as follows.

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    Hope this helps.
    Sik
  • kannan1 Profile Picture
    51 on at
    Re: Attaching list item attachment to email

    For some reason the above didn't work 

    I did all as said in the below link and the flow runs without any error. but the attachment in the email throws an error.  "looks like we dont support this file format" for .jpg file and similar for word and other file formats.

     

  • kannan1 Profile Picture
    51 on at
    Re: Attaching list item attachment to email

    found the answer here https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/Email-Attachments-in-Flow/m-p/194363#M20085

     

    {
     "Name": @{items('Apply_To_Each')?['DisplayName']},
     "ContentBytes": @{body('Get_attachment_content')?['$content']}
    }

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