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Power Automate - Building Flows
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Get Email Address from Selected Person in People Picker and Send an Email

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Posted on 27 Feb 2020 19:47:28 by

Hello experts,

 

I am a newbie at using PA aka Flow and now have a requirement where I need to be able to send an email to the person selected in a People/Group column on my SP list.  I have researched the internet and these forums but have not found a post with the exact issue as mine.  

 

I have started with "When an item is created\Get item\Select, however there is no dynamic content available for the From in the Select action.  Can anyone help?  Much appreciated.

 

 

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on 27 Feb 2020 at 20:21:59
    Re: Get Email Address from Selected Person in People Picker and Send an Email

    Thank you pStork1.  I knew this wasn't supposed to be so complicated.  Ugh!  The flow is working now.  Thanks again!

  • ChristianAbata Profile Picture
    8,947 Most Valuable Professional on 27 Feb 2020 at 20:15:46
    Re: Get Email Address from Selected Person in People Picker and Send an Email

    @Anonymous  you are using get item, and needs get items.

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    on 27 Feb 2020 at 20:12:16
    Re: Get Email Address from Selected Person in People Picker and Send an Email

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    66,122 Most Valuable Professional on 27 Feb 2020 at 20:11:36
    Re: Get Email Address from Selected Person in People Picker and Send an Email

    You don't need the select.  If you are doing a Get Item then the Email address of the person selected will show up in dynamic data as Columnname Email.  You can just use that directly to send the email.  If the column allows multiple peopel to selected then you'll need an Apply to Each loop to process the column.  in each loop add the dyanmic email column to a string variable followed by a semicolon.  When you exit the loop you will have a string variable with a semicolon delimited list of emails.  You can use that variable in the Send an Email

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on 27 Feb 2020 at 20:09:41
    Re: Get Email Address from Selected Person in People Picker and Send an Email

    I understand that it needs an array but nothing at all shows up in dynamic content to choose from.

  • ChristianAbata Profile Picture
    8,947 Most Valuable Professional on 27 Feb 2020 at 20:00:02
    Re: Get Email Address from Selected Person in People Picker and Send an Email

    hi @Anonymous  Select needs an array as parameter, so maeby you can use select Items liks this.

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