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Hello all,

New to power automate and well I am figuring it out but it is taking a toll. I have created a Flow that saves attachments from my email account to a folder located in my OneDrive. This works. However my hurdle is that I have several TXT files in my emails at one time. I need to save those files to a static name IE ReportFlow.Txt however the file is constantly written with the actual attachments name when there is more than one TXT file. I used this to get this far.

ReportFlow(Expression).txt

Expression:

concat(split(items('Apply_to_each_Attachment_on_the_email')?['Name'], '.')[0], '-1', slice(items('Apply_to_each_Attachment_on_the_email')?['Name'], indexOf(items('Apply_to_each_Attachment_on_the_email')?['Name'], '.')))

How can I append a numerical value to the Static Name when there are multiple files to save at the same time? ReportFlow-1.txt ReportFlow-2.txt and not when I am getting ReportFlowCrazyLongAttachmentNamefromEmail-1.txt and ReportFlowCrazyLongAttachmentNamefromEmail-2.txt

Thanks

Categories:

Building flows

What if you append a timestamp to the file instead? I cover how to do that in this YT Tutorial: Save Email Attachments to SharePoint with Microsoft Power Automate

Power Automate doesn’t have a download attachment from outlook action. In this Power Automate Video tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the Get Attachment (V2) action in combination with the Create File action to get your email attachments onto SharePoint.

The Create File action will overwrite any files that already exist with the same name. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can append a timestamp to the end of a file name to prevent your file from being overwritten.

I’ll also show you how to set up your flow so that you can trigger it manually while building it so you don’t need to wait for an email to arrive. At the end of the video I’ll show you how adding trigger conditions to your flow can prevent it from triggering if certain conditions aren’t met. Although the final flow uses the When a new email arrives in a shared mailbox (V2) trigger, you can use any of the When a new email arrives triggers for your flow. Adjust this flow to suit your needs!

IN THIS VIDEO:

✅ How to Automate Downloading and Uploading Email Attachments to SharePoint

✅ How to Use a the Get Email (V2) action

✅ How to Use the Get Attachment (V2) action

✅ How to Create Attachment Files using the Create File Action

✅ How to Prevent the Create File Action from Overwriting a File

✅ How to use Split the Filename from its Extension

✅ How to Append a Timestamp to a File Name

✅ How to use the When a New Email Arrives in a Shared Mailbox (V2) trigger

✅ How to use the Convert Time Zone action

✅ How to add Trigger Conditions to your Flow

Hope this helps!

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