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I would to trigger a flow when an email is categorized (color coding) for which there isn't any trigger. If it isn't possible, I am also ok if the flow can be triggered when an email is manually moved to a folder when arrived which as well is not possible. I don't want to filter email with sender or subject to categorize them as the business case doesn't allow. Only feasible option I see is when email is flagged but how can we categorize it? How can I find information related to the flag from flow? There isn't any dynamic properties available regarding any flagging. I ultimately want to create tasks in several buckets in planner for categorized emails. What all options am I left with?
Hi,
I also would like to implement your workaround.
Do you have any information on how this would work with more then a hundred mails arriving every day?
(do all these "stuck" flows use ressources all the time, does that impact usability of the mailbox anyhow, etc. )
Thank you, Paweł. I've just adapted this solution by adding the creation of a Planner task for different teams, based on a manual approach with Outlook categorization labeling.
Hi, I would like to share my workaround to trigger an action when mail is categorized.
the idea is to create a loop which checks if arrived emial has a category.
when a new emial arrives get emial ID and then send http request to get metadata of this mail, then parse json and create a variable with category
in next step create a loop with do until. The value is a variable with category, the loops will run as long as category is not blank. You can also setup a timeout (in my case it's 7 days)
In the loop add a delay to determine how often it should refresh, after that send another http request to get details of this mail, then parse json and set variable with category. If the category is not empty flow will get you to next step.
in the last step I used switch so depending on the name of category you can do different things. Personally I'm using adaptive cards to inform via teams specific person that emial was assigned to them, but you can also add an action to move this mail to specific folder. Keep in mind that when you parse json you will get your category in format ["Category"] so when setting variable i used expresion:
Something that might might be helpful here. I created actions in outlook to move and flag an email with shortcuts.
Ex. Crtl+Shift+1 move the selected mail to a folder and flagged at the same time (well, after it has moved). So finally the taks is created in the planned i associated to the Folder.
I hope it helps.
Hi, any word if this feature is supported by now? Can we get an update or at least know if this is due to be implemented?
not that i know of 😞
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