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Hi,

This was working yesterday!!

I am having issues with the above. I have a requirement to store attachments coming from various copier/scanners. When I set the above up for docs@domain.com.au, it works fine.

However, I want to change the location stored depending on the alias I am using so that I can automate the storage of multiple document types into different folders.

I therefore created multiple aliases for the above email address e.g forklift@domain.com and others.
I then alter the above flow so I have the To: field as forklift@domain.com and then change the destination for the attachment to a different folder on the OneDrive.
All was working OK yesterday with 2 aliases and files ending up in 2 different folder. Today it stopped working after I started looking at changing the file name of the attachment.

I've deleted all my flows for this account and can get the basic flow to work OK but now, the moment I change the To: field to include the alias the flow never triggers. In OWA, all the emails are being received fine. Does anyone have any idea why the flows aren't trigerring and why it worked yesterday and not today?

Any help would be much appreciated.

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mhlangensiepen 24 on at

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Additional: It looks like it wasn't actually working. The flow was resolving all the aliases to the actual email account - as I was adding and testing new aliases and flows for the new alias, because it was newer, the incoming email/attachment would go to the next folder I had set up.

Is there any way round this? It seems very counterproductive for MS to resolve aliases in flows.

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Hi @mhlangensiepen,

Is your Flow working properly these two days?

According to your description, the trigger you are using is When an email arrived of Office 365 Outlook connector.

Is there any additional condition in the trigger to allow the Flow only to be fired when a special condition met?

You could delete the trigger then recreate a new one and try again. You could also share the screenshot of your Flow to make us could understand your issue better.

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mhlangensiepen 24 on at

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Hi unfortunately the original flows wouldn't work as it looks as if no matter what I do, the alias resolves to the original address of docs@domain.com

I got it working by using shared email addresses with autoforwarding to docs@domain.com and then filling in the To: field with the shaerd email address. A bit clunky but at least it works. I'll organise things a little better with regard to the shared email addresses so at least they are in sequence. Now I need to delve into the naming of the saved file.

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mhlangensiepen 24 on at

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Last bit of the flow?

I want to drop the existing attachment name and create (forexample) a name of "kcforklift_yyyymmddhhss" where the date/time is that of the attachment creation?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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v-litu-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @mhlangensiepen,

You could use the split() function extract the file extension, for example:

split('TestFile.xlsx','.')[1]

It will return file extension "xlsx".

Then we could use concat() function to connect the string "kcforklift" and time, for example:

concat('kcforklift',utcNow('yyyyMMsshhss'),'.','xlsx')

Then append the file name into the Create file action.

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Best Regards,

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mhlangensiepen 24 on at

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Many thanks, will have a look.

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