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Condition filter for email attachments before saving

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Is there any way to filter the attachments for just xlsx files for example?

I get a lot of jpg, png signature images etc that I do not want to save. I just want to save xlsx files for example.

In power automate, I would set up a condition step but I don't see how to do that in power automate Desktop.

 

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  • miketran13 Profile Picture
    720 on at

    Hi,

     

    For now, I don't see any condition filter for email attachments that you can filter by document type. And even while iterating for each item inside the loops of all attachments, I also don't see any data that you can filter by type.

     

    I think you can just make a workaround solution for this by creating another flow to delete the unnessesary files you don't need once the file is saved.

     

    Thanks and hope it can help you. 

    Mike

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  • r96359 Profile Picture
    228 on at

    Hello @miketran13 ,

     

    Thanks. Is this the same answer for filtering by a contains string?

    Is there any operation currently that interrupts the download of the attachments and allows logic to supersede?

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    miketran13 Profile Picture
    720 on at

    Hi,

    You can have a look at the below steps, I have these steps:

    Retrieve Email Messages (Save attachments to a temp folder)

    Get file in Temp folder (only get .xlsx files) 

    Move these files to folder Done

    Delete all files in Temp folder

     

    step1.pngstep2.png

    Thanks and hope it can help you. 

    Mike

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  • r96359 Profile Picture
    228 on at

    @miketran13 

    I figured that might be my only other path (no pun intended). I used delete folder which deletes all files within as well. Appreciate the help! Cheers

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