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Flow saving email attachment in Sharepoint for PowerBI refresh

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Hi,

I have created a flow which would automatically save attachment from outlook of specific header into sharepoint and rename the excel file based on the filename .time. XLSX

The files in the sharepoint folder are then connected to PowerBI for scheduled refresh.

However, i am facing an error when importing the data that PowerBi does not recognize the format of the first file and that it only supports (Text, CSV Excel Workbooks, etc.)

The file extension that is saved can be accessed via sharepoint in excel table format.

If i were to park the file directly into sharepoint without using flow, i am able to import the data into PowerBI.

For my flow, i have used variables to store the string filename and string filetype XLSX then concatenate the name of the file along with the extension together.

Extension have already been changed to full uppercase.

Please let me know if there are any errors due to extensions that i may have missed out

Thank you for your help

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AaronUT 4 on at

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Re: Flow saving email attachment in Sharepoint for PowerBI refresh

Hi @SamLed ,

Thanks for your reply. I have tried out the flow but am getting an error it is returning null.

I am converting using below code. I use attachments content as "Attachments" is not an option when i look through the dynamic selection.
"base64toBinary(triggerOutputs()?['Attachments content'])"

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SamLed 2,332 Moderator on at

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Re: Flow saving email attachment in Sharepoint for PowerBI refresh

Hi @AaronUT,

File content may be Base64 encoded. So, give a try converting "File content" dynamic content by using base64ToBinary().

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Re: Flow saving email attachment in Sharepoint for PowerBI refresh

Hi,

Below is the flow that extracts the email attachment based on subject title of email.

The "apply to each 2" condition is created by Flow automatically.

When looking at the output for content type on the attachment, it seems like the flow does not take the attachment as an excel.

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Re: Flow saving email attachment in Sharepoint for PowerBI refresh

Hi @AaronUT,

Allow me to formalize what I understood and tell me if that's it.
You receive excel file attached to a mail you select according to its header. Then you get that attachment content and create a file to a SharePoint library. you also rename original filename adding time. But uploaded file is not recognized as a valid Excel file when it arrives in SharePoint. Issue you don't have when you manually upload it.

Did I understood correctly your issue ?

Please post also screens of your flow, focusing on content retrieving and file creation action configuration.
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