Select name of email recepient in the body of the email

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Hello,

I made a simple app to send an email depending on what value the drop down will be.

The subject of the email is "Hello you received a package" if you select the drown down package and "Hello you received a envelope" if you select the drop down envelope.

The body of the email is also variable and it also depends on what you select from the drop down.

My questions is if there is a possibility to select the name of the person to which I'm send the email in the body of the email?

The app looks like this:

Its not in English so let me know if you need me to translate something. After the word ""Bună" i need to have the name of the person to which I'm sending the email.

Thank you very much,

Vlad

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vsardaru 36 on at

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Hello,

Can anyone help me with this?

Thank you.

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You could definitely replace the search box you have at the top of the form with a dropdown to select the user's email. Or just add a dropdown above or below the search box and then use an IF() to get either the entry in the searchbox or the dropdown value. The one problem I've seen with using a dropdown for this kind of thing is that Dropdowns have a maximum number of entries so a long list of user emails won't work. That's why search is normally used instead.

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@Pstork1 The dropdwon has a condition and depending on what value i select it will populate the Message text box with some text. Isn’t there a way add a condition In the text box or in the dropdown code i already have to select the name of the person i’m sending the email?
I can show you the code from the dropdown or anything else if needed.

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That would depend on how the email address of the recipient is being determined.

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@Pstork1 The app is made from the email
screen. I believe you know it and the email
address of the recipient is determined from the search bar. I type a name, select the name and below the search bar the selected name wil appear. ( not the entire email address only the first and last name).

Can you help me with this? I am new with powerapps and i would really appreciate your input on this.

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The problem tends to be that the built-in email screen allows adding more than one recipient. Those recipients are stored in a Gallery called EmailPeopleGallery1 by default. Since its a collection its hard to get all the names, but you could get the name of the first person in the list using the following expression in the email body.

First(EmailPeopleGallery1.AllItems).DisplayName

Add that to the body of the email by putting it in the expression tab of the dynamic content dialog

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Hi @vsardaru ,

Have your issue been resolved?

If so, please mark the solution as answer, if not, I am happy to help further.

@Pstork1 workaround is great, but It can only return the first username, please try the following code to show all name if you have multiple recipients

Concat(MyPeople,DisplayName," & ")

Hope this helps.

Sik

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