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Good Morning! 

I Work for a Service Desk as a Team Lead and I have created a Flow inside of Power Automate to Message a Teams chat whenever a new email comes into the Support inbox for the team to create a ticket and support. My goal was to make it as visually appealing and clean as possible as IT Leadership stakeholders would eventually be in this Group chat and to make it as functionally approachable for the Technicians using it day to day. 

The main issues I'm having are that the profile picture doesn't load (not a huge deal, this is just for aesthetics and seeing at a glance if one person has sent in 3 emails etc) and that the button I created for opening the email in question that the post is posting about is not clickable. 

I took some troubleshooting measures and changed the button to have a link to micsrosoft.com and that worked without a problem, so I don't think its silently failing or being blocked by a security policy etc.  
 
Please let me know if anyone knows what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it! 


My Flow is as Follows > When a new email arrives in a shared mailbox (V2) > Get User photo (V2) > Compose CleanWebLink > Compose Picture > Post Card in a chat or channel

Here is my JSON Adaptive card Raw

{
  "$schema": "http://adaptivecards.io/schemas/adaptive-card.json",
  "type": "AdaptiveCard",
  "version": "1.5",
  "body": [
    {
      "type": "ColumnSet",
      "columns": [
        {
          "type": "Column",
          "width": "auto",
          "items": [
            {
              "type": "Image",
              "url": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/@{triggerOutputs()?['body/fromAddress']}/photo/$value",
              "size": "Small",
              "style": "Person"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "type": "Column",
          "width": "stretch",
          "items": [
            {
              "type": "TextBlock",
              "text": "@{triggerOutputs()?['body/from']}",
              "weight": "Bolder",
              "size": "Medium"
            },
            {
              "type": "TextBlock",
              "text": "@{triggerOutputs()?['body/fromAddress']}",
              "isSubtle": true,
              "spacing": "None"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "TextBlock",
      "text": "@{triggerOutputs()?['body/subject']}",
      "wrap": true,
      "weight": "Bolder",
      "size": "Medium",
      "spacing": "Medium"
    },
    {
      "type": "TextBlock",
      "text": "@{triggerOutputs()?['body/bodyPreview']}",
      "wrap": true,
      "spacing": "Small"
    }
  ],
  "actions": [
    {
      "type": "Action.OpenUrl",
      "title": "Open Email",
      "url": "Compose_CleanWeblink"
    }
  ]
}
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  • Vish WR Profile Picture
    3,748 on at
     
    The line below in your code will consider this a string 
      "actions": [
        {
          "type": "Action.OpenUrl",
          "title": "Open Email",
          "url": "Compose_CleanWeblink"
        }
      ]
    }

    Change this to.  
    "url": "@{outputs('Compose_CleanWebLink')}"
     
    Let me know if this works 
     
    For the image not loading, Adaptive Cards in Teams cannot authenticate to Microsoft Graph, since you already have the get user profile image, you can convert as base64 and use it in an adaptive card 
     
    Store the base64 in compose 
    data:image/png;base64,@{base64(body('Get_user_photo_(V2)'))}
     

    Use this in an adaptive card 

    "url": "@{outputs('Compose_Picture')}"



     
    Vishnu WR
     
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  • RR-17041222-0 Profile Picture
    8 on at
    @Vish WR

    Thank you for sending this over!

    I'm leaving out the picture format for now while I test the Open Email button. 

    But I changed 

     "url": "Compose_CleanWeblink" to "url": "@{outputs('Compose_CleanWebLink')}"

    and power automate doesnt like that. This is the error I get when I try to test

     
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    Expiscornovus Profile Picture
    33,891 Most Valuable Professional on at
     
    What expression are you using in your Compose Cleanweblink action? Can you share that code snippet?
     
    You might want to use the below deeplink approach, described by Manuel Gomes:
     
    Below is an example of that approach
     
    concat('https://outlook.office.com/mail/Contoso@contoso.onmicrosoft.com/deeplink?ItemID=',triggerOutputs()?['body/Id'], '&exvsurl=1')


    This is the json I am using for the adaptive card
     
    {
      "$schema": "http://adaptivecards.io/schemas/adaptive-card.json",
      "type": "AdaptiveCard",
      "version": "1.5",
      "body": [
        {
          "type": "ColumnSet",
          "columns": [
            {
              "type": "Column",
              "width": "auto",
              "items": [
                
              ]
            },
            {
              "type": "Column",
              "width": "stretch",
              "items": [
                {
                  "type": "TextBlock",
                  "text": "@{triggerOutputs()?['body/from']}",
                  "weight": "Bolder",
                  "size": "Medium"
                },
                {
                  "type": "TextBlock",
                  "text": "@{triggerOutputs()?['body/fromAddress']}",
                  "isSubtle": true,
                  "spacing": "None"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "type": "TextBlock",
          "text": "@{triggerOutputs()?['body/subject']}",
          "wrap": true,
          "weight": "Bolder",
          "size": "Medium",
          "spacing": "Medium"
        },
        {
          "type": "TextBlock",
          "text": "@{triggerOutputs()?['body/bodyPreview']}",
          "wrap": true,
          "spacing": "Small"
        }
      ],
      "actions": [
        {
          "type": "Action.OpenUrl",
          "title": "Open Email",
          "url": "@{outputs('Compose_CleanWebLink')}"
        }
      ]
    }
     
    My test returns the below card



    Which opens the email of the Shared Mailbox
     



     
    Happy to help out 😁

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