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Difficulty in creating flow to save attachment that does not have certain filename

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Posted on by snowfoxice 1

Hello Community, 

I am in the process of building a flow to save only pdf files that does not have SPA or FRE in the email attachment's filename. I also want the flow to ignore png files. I kept on getting this error below. If someone can help, it will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

Error: Unable to process template language expressions for action 'Condition' at line '0' and column '0': 'The template language function 'startsWith' expects its first parameter to be of type string. The provided value is of type 'Array'. Please see https://aka.ms/logicexpressions#startswith for usage details.'.

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    v-xiaochen-msft Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @snowfoxice ,

     

    This is because that the first parameter is an array but the function startswith expects a string.

    So you should use 'apply to each' action to get every attachment name and attachment content.

    vxiaochenmsft_0-1654222060170.png

     

    Best Regards,

    Wearsky

     

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