.gif file on Sharepoint -> MS Teams

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Hi,

i want to post a .gif file, which i saved on Sharepoint, in a MS Teams message. Can someone check my flow and tell me what iam doing wrong? (The excel flow before the flow i show you is not relevant in this case)

Note: In the screenshot i tried to post the picture through direct link and the cariable formula

Formula: variables('GIFFILE') [rand(0, length(variables('GIFFILE')))]

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Thanks for your help 🙂

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Expiscornovus 33,181 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Re: .gif file on Sharepoint -> MS Teams

Hi @wshalex123,

I would use a slash to close the IMG tag and I would also add a sub function to remove the last item in the rand function. Otherwise it could try and collect [2] which is item number 3. Which does not exist.

Btw, I think I can reproduce your behaviour with SPO hosted gifs. Gifs from the internet seem to work fine.

Try:

<img src="@{variables('GIFFILE')[rand(0, sub(length(variables('GIFFILE')), 1))]}" />

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Re: .gif file on Sharepoint -> MS Teams

Hello @Expiscornovus,

yes, online gifs work just fine. I created custom gifs for employee jubilees. If possible i want not to upload them somewhere...
variables('GIFFILE') [rand(0, sub(length(variables('GIFFILE')),1))]

Sadly your solution does not work for me...

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Hi @wshalex123,

As a workaround you might be able to use the base64 encoded gif. However, I don't know if these gifs are below the 28 kb?

<img src="data:@{body('Get_file_content_using_path')['$content-type']};base64,@{body('Get_file_content_using_path')['$content']} " />

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Re: .gif file on Sharepoint -> MS Teams

Sadly my gif got 418KB... 😄

I think i'll upload them

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Re: .gif file on Sharepoint -> MS Teams

Hi @wshalex123,

FYI, I also tried the Graph API, found an unsupported content-type limitation message for image/gif in the HostedContents property:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/chatmessage-post?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http#example-5-send-inline-images-along-with-the-message

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