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Posted on by GreguS

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Hello,

I’m having an issue with a fairly simple automation, and I’m not sure what’s going wrong.

I want an email account to identify a tag in the email's subject line upon receiving a message. Up to this point, everything works fine.

Afterwards, for each message identified with the correct tag, I want to save the attachments to OneDrive only if they are .docx, .doc, .xlsx, .xls, or .pdf files.

When I run a test of my flow, the automation detect the attachments, but it doesn’t recognize any of them as ending in .pdf or .docx (for the test).

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i don't understand where is the problem ...

Kind regards

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SaiRT14 1,988 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Problem with a simple flow ...

Here are high level steps:

Trigger: When an email is received.

Condition: Check for the tag in the subject line.

Action: Use the Apply to Each action to loop through all attachments.

Condition Inside the Loop: Check the file extension using endsWith() and toLower().

Action: Save the attachment to OneDrive if the file type matches the allowed extensions.
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Problem with a simple flow ...

Yes for your response i am a noobs seriously ...
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Expiscornovus 31,779 Most Valuable Professional on at

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In your condition you have swapped the order of the field and the value. Like you mentioned, you want to check if the Name ends with .doc.

Please place the Name field on the left side and the '.doc' text on the right side.
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Ellis Karim 11,053 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Just change the ordering of the condition to

We are testing: if the filename ends with .docx etc.

See: How to Save PDF Email Attachments to a SharePoint Document Library Using Power Automate – Ellis Karim's Blog

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