How to retrieve email from ODATA format, required for sending e-mail

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Hi, I have problem with sending email to specific address.

Brief description: I retrieve items which have email address. I grouped it together and send email with all items to one email address.

I was inspired by this procedure: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/flow-to-send-single-email-for-set-of-records-in-Sharepoint-list/td-p/176057

Everything works except sending an email. It takes email address in ODATA format (maybe this is the problem). In action "sending email" the output of this action looks like:

"To": {"@odata.type":"#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference","Id":1,"Value":"example@example.cz"};

and alert is: BadRequest., and some of the reciever are not valid.

But when I write only example@example.cz, into the box TO, it works without trouble.
So it is necessary to trim this output? or problem is somewhere else?

Now I have this solution's output:

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and this is solution:

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Current item bears data as I mentioned above: "@odata.type":"#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference","Id":1,"Value":"example@example.cz"

Have anybody experience with this? Thanks for answers.

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Brad_Groux 4,556 on at

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If you'll review the Send an email (V2) documentation, it states:

To email Specify email addresses separated by semicolons like someone@contoso.com Key: To

I believe the issue you're having is the format of the data you are trying to pass into the to box. Have you tried initializing a string variable with the email address data and passing the variable into the To box?

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Hi @TomasG ,

I guess this is because you did not configure Choice value in the Value field when configuring Append to array variable action.

Generally for Choice column, if you need to reference the field value, you need to reference Choice column value.

For example, the type of Email column is Choice:

If you filter the items through Filter array and use Expression to get the field values, you need to configure the following expression:

item()['Email']['Value']

Or you could keep your current configuration and solve your problem with Parse JSON action:

Fill the following content in the location shown to generate the schema.

{"@odata.type":"#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference","Id":1,"Value":"example@example.cz"}

Then configure Dynamic content originally configured in To field in Content.

Finally, the resolved Value is configured in To field, which is the required email address.

Please take a try.

Best Regards,