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Use case : I get an automated email with attachment at a fixed time everyday from a system mail ID. The PDF has some 10 rows. If one of the row in the PDF has content as error, I want to send follow-up mail to a team member.

Note: I use web mail outlook 365 and web version of Power automate

While automating this, I have configured the first trigger step successfully. I am confused in what is the step 2 out of these 2 options.
1. Choose 'Apply to each'. If I choose this, I am not getting 'attachment' in the 'Select an Output from previous steps'.
2. Get Attachment V2. If I choose this option, I dont know what is message ID and Attachment ID?

Can someone pls help.

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Vish WR 3,748 on at

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have u tried ai buider action like Recognize text in image or document or run a promput to process the pdf ?

i will see if i can try with sample , if worked will share

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Hi, hope you are doing well.

You are actually really close. I am assuming you have used the Outlook trigger "When a new email arrives (V3)". The reason you are not seeing attachments in the 'Select an Output from previous steps' is because by default the trigger does not include the attachments. You have to manually make it include attachments.

Here are some screenshots for your reference:

1. Mark the "Include Attachments" parameter as "Yes" in your trigger.

2. In your Apply to each action, you will now see "Attachments" from your trigger that you can add in the 'Select an Output from previous steps'.

3. You can then add a "Get Attachment (V2)" action inside the loop to get the content of the attachment. You can get the Message ID from your trigger (triggerOutputs()?['body/id']) and the Attachment ID as the current item in the loop (item()?['id']).

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