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I hope I'm explaining this right. Our company has an e-mail signature composed out of logo's, hyperlinks and of course text. It was developed by a third party, which created our company style.

We all just got one standard by mail, edited our name and saved it in the signature menu in Outlook (just copy/pasting it).

Microsoft has it own templates for this I noticed, and when I opened it, it was just a Word-file, like this:

We have something similar.

Microsoft also just recommend copy/pasting it to email and then editing the data.

But how on earth can I add this to the body of an email?

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Hello @StefWS

(1) Get your HTML code.
(2) Copy it to a text edit like NotePad.
(3) Replace the double quotes ( " ) with single ones ( ' )

(4) Optional - Preview your code with an HtmlText control.

(5) If all is good in #4, in your SendEmail body, you can add the HTML codes inside a quote.

Alternatively, if you want to make it easier to edit in the future, you can always keep the HtmlText control in #4 and just hide it when you publish the app. Then in your send mail code, refer to it like this:

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Thank you for helping. Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with html. I've send an email to myself with just the signature, then went to actions - view source. I got a really long block of code indeed. In Powerapp HTMLtext it errored out.

How do I know which part I need?

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Hello @StefWS

To get the HTML on your email, right click over your signature and hover over the code. While hovering, you should be able to notice that it highlights the part of the email. You should hover up until all your signature is highlighted then, click on Copy, then copy element.

You can test the code by following Step 3 and 4 in my previous response.

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StefWS 149 on at

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Hi @cha_cha ,

Sorry for the late reply. I needed my IT-colleague to figure this out along with me.

Took a while to understand, but I'm getting closer. The HTML-text block in PowerApp look nothing like it, however if I send a mail with this HTML-object, it look quite alright.

I'm struggling now however, how I can change the pieces with my name to the name of the logged in user, and how I can reference to the images, because I can't seem to edit much in this block. Simply editing my name and replacing it with the name of a control does not seem to work.

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Hello @StefWS

Glad you got it sorted.

So For Names to make it dynamic, let say this is the HTML code.
"<div>......Gibberish HTML codes......... <div>......Gibberish HTML codes......... <div> YOUR NAME </div> </div>......Gibberish HTML codes......... </div> "

Now replace it with this code: " & User().FullName & "
It would fit like below:
"<div>......Gibberish HTML codes......... <div>......Gibberish HTML codes......... <div> " & User().FullName & " </div> </div>......Gibberish HTML codes......... </div> "

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Great that worked!

Now for the images :
I found something like:

<img border='0' width='66' height='10' style='width:.6833in;height:.1083in' id='Afbeelding_x0020_5' src='cid:image002.png@01D90740.1129E540' alt='signature_1557849809'>

Can I refer to an uploaded image in the app, or perhaps to an SPList, or document library?

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Hello @StefWS

This is actually not the full solution. If you send this to GMail, the image won't show because Gmail doesn't allow this kind of image rendering.

Set(varBase64,JSON(User().Image,JSONFormat.IncludeBinaryData));
src='"&varBase64&"'

This is an example in Gmail.

There are various ways of getting past this but those processes will involve setting up a separate list of users or your company may decide on having a unified picture.

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Alright,

So I've uploaded an image (on the left) and then used a control to trigger:

Set(varIMG,JSON(Image3.Image))

This results in:
But when I change the control to :

Set(varIMG,JSON(Image3.Image,JSONFormat.IncludeBinaryData));

Then I get:

When I send the email, I get:

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Hello @StefWS

Apologies, I was really busy in the past few days.

How are you attaching the image to the code? Here's my code:
Set(varImage,JSON(Image2.Image,JSONFormat.IncludeBinaryData) ); Office365Outlook.SendEmailV2(User().Email,"checkImage","<img src=" & varImage & "/>");

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