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Can Power Automate read through the body of an email for specific words to generate an action?

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Hello all,

 

I am looking for a way to use Power Automate to read through the body of an email and pull out very specific text; then for it to generate a new email to a group of people.  I have made this work when looking at the subject, the problem is, the subject doesn't tell the whole story so I need to look at the body instead. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks!

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  • eric-cheng Profile Picture
    5,171 on at

    Hi @Brian_price ,

     

    Check out this article here  

     

    If your email template is standardised, it will be easier.  Else, you will need to do some string manipulation to look for certain keywords.

  • Brian_price Profile Picture
    6 on at

    I am rather new to this but it seems I am unable to edit the code. Even if I add all of the functions together, like in the example provided, it doesn't allow me to stack them like shown in the example. Any ideas here or am I missing some feature for editing?

     

  • eric-cheng Profile Picture
    5,171 on at

    Would you be able to post a screenshot of your flow?

     

    For step 3, you simply have to hit the enter key in value.  You don't edit in peek code.

    Screenshot_20210710-024135_Chrome.jpg

     

    It will then look like this in peek code

     

    Screenshot_20210710-024438_Chrome.jpg

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