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Posted on 7 Feb 2020 04:16:30 by Community Power Pla...

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Community-Blog/Create-Planner-Task-and-Include-Attachments-From-Outlook-Email/ba-p/245121

I tried the method above and successfully created a task from email with subject and body content. However, I cannot create the folder to store the attachments. It seems like the automation cannot recognize if the email has attachment or not.

Could anyone help me? Thank you.

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Community Power Pla... on 19 Nov 2020 at 14:05:01

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Re: The flow cannot recognize if the email has attachment or not

Hi @DodgeHo,

I got stuck in the exact same place, but nothing changed after I reviewed SharePoint's document checkout settings--mine were already set to "no." Did you make any other adjustments somewhere?
Community Power Pla... on 19 Nov 2020 at 14:01:49

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Re: The flow cannot recognize if the email has attachment or not

@DodgeHo was probably referring to the SharePoint document checkout setting:
Hjartarson 3 on 20 Apr 2020 at 12:36:42

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Re: The flow cannot recognize if the email has attachment or not

Hello @Anonymous,

I am having the exact same problem as you were having.

could you elaborate on how you changed the folder setting to "no need to check out"?

That might be the thing I need as well.
Sam_Madisha 9 on 17 Feb 2020 at 07:26:16

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Re: The flow cannot recognize if the email has attachment or not

@Anonymous Good job. Cheers!
Community Power Pla... on 17 Feb 2020 at 04:40:33

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Re: The flow cannot recognize if the email has attachment or not

Thank you all!
I made it!
I just set the folder setting to "no need to check out" and it works perfectly.
Community Power Pla... on 17 Feb 2020 at 02:49:29

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Re: The flow cannot recognize if the email has attachment or not

@Sam_Madisha Thank you for your reply. I finally get the flow recognises the email but I got suck in here, the 'Create sharing link for a file or folder' action.
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
@AlanPs1 @v-bacao-msft @ChristianAbata
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Sam_Madisha 9 on 14 Feb 2020 at 12:39:11

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Re: The flow cannot recognize if the email has attachment or not

@Anonymous Your fisrt code is correct there is nothing wrong with it. Do not change to 'yes' keep it at 'no', it processes email with no attachments. Try change your step of Get email to Get email (2) and try again.
Community Power Pla... on 10 Feb 2020 at 04:38:49

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Re: The flow cannot recognize if the email has attachment or not

Thanks for the reply @AlanPs1 @v-bacao-msft @ChristianAbata

I set the include attachment to "YES" but it still doesn't work.
Here is the run history for "When a new email arrives (V3)"
v-bacao-msft on 10 Feb 2020 at 01:17:04

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Re: The flow cannot recognize if the email has attachment or not

Hi @Anonymous ,

As described by @AlanPs1 , the first thing you need to do is make sure the email you receive contains attachments.

Flow run history shows that the action in If yes was not executed, because the result of Condition is false.

When configuring the Condition, you can directly use the Has Attachments output by the Get email action to determine whether the email contains attachments.

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Also, I noticed that you have set the Include Attachments in the Get email action to Yes, so it can get the attachments.

Please take a try again.

Best Regards
ChristianAbata 8,947 Most Valuable Professional on 08 Feb 2020 at 13:17:35

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Re: The flow cannot recognize if the email has attachment or not

@Anonymous