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Cannot retrieve a list of several attachments' names from a Gmail or OneDrive

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Posted on by kosamuky

Hello and thank you in advance to everybody reading this.

I'm using basically the flow "Gmail attachments to OneDrive" and I'm just trying to add a final step where I receive a mobile notification with just the name of the file added to OneDrive. My problem is that if there are for instance 3 files attached to that email I get 3 different notifications, one for each file.

Is there a way to get just one notification with a list of the names of the files added?

First, I tried using the Gmail connector "Attachments" but automatically it was put in an "Apply to each" container and I'm not sure if that was the problem.

In my second try I used an intermediate step to set the OneDrive connector "List files in folder" and I keep having the same results.

Thank you for your help!

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JonDoesFlow 1,304 on at

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Yes. You could initialise an array variable, and then in the apply to each use the Append to an array, and then choose the file name and then use that variable in the notification step.

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kosamuky 18 on at

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Thank you for your reply, Jon.
I have been trying to do what you say but 'm not really able to understand it. I guess I forgot to mention I'm not a programmer.
If you could explain it again with other words, I will be more than happy, if not I will keep trying to understand this better.
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grantjenkins 11,063 Moderator on at

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I don't have the Gmail connector setup but used the Outlook connector as an example. I would assume they are almost identical.

I would use a Select action taking in the attachments from your trigger and using Attachment Name to extract out the name for each one. This would give me an array of attachment names.

I would then take that output and use a Join to join all the attachment names by comma or semi-colon.

If I had three attachments with the following names:
Test 01.docx
Test 02.docx
Test 04.pdf

My output from the Select would be:
[ "Test 01.docx", "Test 02.docx", "Test 04.pdf" ]

And the output from the Join using a comma to separate the names would be:
Test 01.docx,Test 02.docx,Test 04.pdf
kosamuky 18 on at

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It worked! So easy!!
Thank you so much!!