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Hello Community,

I am currently building a flow that listens to certain Outlook-Mails from our CRM system. There are a few variables in these mails that I want to parse in an excel sheet(OneDrive).

I found this ticket that seemed to solve my issue https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/Extract-text-from-body-of-an-email-and-create-new-rows-in-excel/td-p/104708

BUT... I always get the entire HTML Message of the Email in addition to the part of the body I want for that cell.

I have tried many things. Even when I stripped most functions out, including the "html to text" thing and just said "when a mail comes just write test1" and it still parses that HTML junk:

Am I missing something obvious? I am anxious for your answers 🙂

kind regards

Alex

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MarconettiMarco 3,812 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hello @AlexanderEV ,
please refer to the following discussion:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/Converting-HTML-to-Text/m-p/266492#M27056

You should be able to add the "Html to text" action.

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AlexanderEV 6 on at

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Hello @MarconettiMarco ,
adding "Html to text" was the first thing I did.
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I have tried many things. Even when I stripped most functions out, including the "html to text" thing and just said "when a mail comes just write test1" and it still parses that HTML junk:
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Adding it does not change anything.

BR,
Alex
MarconettiMarco 3,812 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Dear @AlexanderEV ,
I've added the following action and it's working:

Could you please, if you're allowed, pass me your html so that I can test it?

BR,
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AlexanderEV 6 on at

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Hello @MarconettiMarco ,

turns out I was missing the obvious: My expression, where I cut my desired substring was just faulty and returned the entire message.
Still confused though why the flow still passed the entire html text when I configured my flow to just write a fixed string ("test1").
Anyways thanks for your help 🙂

BR,
Alex