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Onboarding reminder email - Sharepoint list

Hello,

I am trying to set up a power automate reminder that has been stumping me. I have a Sharepoint list with new hires on it. When 5 days are remaining until their start date, I want an email to go out to a select group of people (the group of people is always the same, regardless of the new hires). In that 1 email, I want there to be a table with the new hires' first name(text field), last name (text field), position (multiple choice field), and start date (date field).

I tried a few different things but had problems with either multiple emails going out, or having a bunch of extra stuff in the email...I think it's looking a bit messy now with little remnants of things that I have attempted to fix it.

Here's the flow that I have;

The expressions are as follows

- formatDateTime(addDays(utcNow(),5),'yyyy-MM-dd')

- body('Newhires')['Firstname'], body('Newhires')['Lastname'],body('Newhires')['Position']

The emails that I get have a bunch of extra info in it - it looks like it's just spitting out all info in regards to this list. Piece of the email below

@eevvee You might find these two tutorials helpful. I'd recommend creating a new flow and running a test at each step. It's a lot easier to troubleshoot a flow as you are building it instead of trying to troubleshoot when it's "complete". As you run tests you can verify the logic of your flow.

Feel free to post an update if you are still stuck!

Send Emails Based on a 📆 Date Column in SharePoint with Microsoft Power Automate

In this Microsoft Power Automate tutorial, I’ll show you how to build a flow that will send a Happy Birthday email to a user based on a date column in a SharePoint list. The SharePoint list also contains a column with a Manager’s name which we’ll use to send a three-day and day of reminder to the user’s manager.

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✅ Using the Recurrence Trigger in Power Automate

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✅How to Get a Date Three Days from Today

✅ How to Create a Dynamic Date Based on utcNow()

✅ How to Return a Count of Items

✅ How to initialize and set a variable

✅ How to use the Send an Email (V2) action

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IN THIS VIDEO:

✅ How to send multiple list items in a single email with a Power Automate Flow

✅ How to create a dynamic date range

✅ How to use the Convert Time Zone action

✅ How to use a Filter Query in the Get Items action

✅ How to count number of items in an array

✅ How to use the Select action to extract a users display name and email address

✅ How to create a unique list of email addresses

✅ How to use the Create HTML Table action

✅ How to customize the HTML Table with CSS styles

✅ How to use the Send an email (V2) action

✅ How to use the Append to String Variable action

✅ How to create a custom list of items for an email

✅ How to use the Send an email (V2) action

✅ How to display singular or plural text based on the number of items returned

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