Using multiple files from MS Forms in Send Email action

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Posted on by MarioS85

Hello all

I am having a hard time with using multiple files uploaded in Forms in an email.

I have a working flow which forwards files (uploaded in forms) to a mail recipient. In this existing flow it is only possible to upload one single document.

Now I want to add two more uploads in the Form. I don't want to increase the limit of attachments in the existing upload function... it has to be like this...

I already tried to just add a similar Parse JSON action, then like repeat the same apply to each -> get content file using path (sequentially and/or in a parallel branch) and so on but in the end I am not able to use the file content of at least one "get file content" action, which seems mandatory, in the send an email action as the mail has to be nested in one of the apply to each actions.

Any suggestions how I can use the get file content output outside this apply to each or how to access both later in the process?

Or any other solution is welcomed.

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v-LilyW-msft on at

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Hi @MarioS85

You can take a try to initialize an array variable, then append all file names and contents to this variable. Finally, fill the variable into the Attachments field in Send an email action.

I set up a flow, you can refer to below screenshots to see if it helps.

Complete Flow:

When a new response is submitted like below:

An email with multiple attachments will be sent.

Hope the content above may help you.

Best Regards

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MarioS85 26 on at

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Thank you 🤘

Exactly what I was looking for... Working perfectly!

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Kagerou 7 on at

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Hi v-LilyW-msft, I did exactly like your steps but came down with error,
Do you know what is the error about?

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MarioS85 26 on at

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@Kagerou i guess you should add a recipient, a subject and a body to your send-email-action...?

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Kagerou 7 on at

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Please refer below:-

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MarioS85 26 on at

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@Kagerou and you are still getting the same error message saying that there is no input parameter for To, Subject and Body? I am not an expert so I really would not have a proper solution for this error.

Maybe delete the send email action, save and then add a new send email action which is similar to the previous one...

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Kagerou 7 on at

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Same error, It Will only work if I do it like this (see image below), but the prob is it will only send the first uploaded file, as for the second one it will ignore. The error starts appearing after i add the array flow...

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KStallard 15 on at

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Hi @v-LilyW-msft
I'm having an issue where one of the files doesnt open when it arrives as an attachment - any ideas why or how I can overcome it?

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KStallard 15 on at

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No matter! I have realised where I was going wrong 🙂
Great flow and works perfectly when the users follows the steps accurately 😄

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ddavid 4 on at

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I have exactly the same problem with the same error message.
Did you find the solution ?

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