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Flow for Outlook: forward Messages with and without attachments

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I have a problem with a flow for outlook. I just want to forward messages from my inbox to 30 other people, but the problem is that I can't make a flow which send mails with attachments and without. 

 

I tried to create a condition for the parameter "has attatchment" and ask for true and false but this doesn't work. I know, that I have to include the output of the prior step, but when the attachment is empty it doesn't check the condition and the flow is marked as failed. 

 

I hope you unterstand my needs.

 

 

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    JS-27041152-0 Profile Picture
    on at

    There is a known designer bug in that we are treating the value as a string.  For now, you can use the advance editor to write an expression like below:

    @equals(triggerBody()?['HasAttachment'], bool('true'))

    @equals(triggerBody()?['HasAttachment'], bool('1'))

     

    Either should work.

  • AdrianP Profile Picture
    13 on at

    Thank you, that helped me a lot. 

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Any chance this bug gets fixed? I don't have access to the Advanced editor so am reliant on using the forms to set things up and attachements are not getting passed down the flow. 

     

     

  • CmmandrShepard Profile Picture
    8 on at
    How do you correctly forward messages anyway? I can't seem to get it working.
  • AdrianP Profile Picture
    13 on at

    Well thats a pretty general question. But i will try to explain it.

     

    • make a new empty flow
    • choose a trigger (e.g. Office 365 Outlook - ...)
    • add an action ("Send E-Mail")
    • now fill in the fields "To:", "Ref.:" as nou need it
    • and in "Text" field you just add the dynamic content "Text"

     

    Thats all. You can do a lot more configurations, add conditions, etc. 

     

    Hope this helps.

     

  • sebastian-azeti Profile Picture
    2 on at

    I need help here too.

     

    I'd like to forward all emails from a certain sender with its attachment to my financing colleague. It is basically t automate forwarding invoices. I can't figure out what to set in "Send email with options" to include the attachment and some custom text. 

  • JS-27041152-0 Profile Picture
    on at

     

    We dont have a "Forward mail" action today.  That would have been more appropriate for this kind of scenarios.  We will add this in our backlog. You can help by voting for this feature in the Ideas section.

     

    For now, you can use the "Send an email" action here.

     

    Thanks!

    Sameer 

     

  • AdrianP Profile Picture
    13 on at

    Thats how I achieved this. You need to handle the attachment, otherwise you will get an error. In german but i hope this still can help someone. 

     

  • CmmandrShepard Profile Picture
    8 on at

    "Blacklog" means,m you will add this in the forseable future ? 🙂 Btw. i found out that outlook.com let's you forward email right from the web interface under settings.

  • CmmandrShepard Profile Picture
    8 on at

    "Blacklog" means,m you will add this in the forseable future ? 🙂 Btw. i found out that outlook.com let's you forward email right from the web interface under settings.

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