encoding attachments from sharepoint to be sent to outlook email as attachments

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1) Power automate get attachments and then apply to each to append to an variable.

1a) get attachment content works

2) the attachments when sending to outlook emails come back as corrupt.

3) attachments to approvals are okay.....

any ideas? 64bit encoding?

thank you

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creativeopinion 10,502 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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@DW-29012007-0 You might be interested in this YT Tutorial:

How to Send SharePoint List Attachments 📎 via Email with Power Automate

In this Microsoft Power Automate tutorial, I’ll cover how to create a Power Automate flow to send SharePoint list attachments in an email.
This flow will check the SharePoint list to see if an item is marked as Ready to Send and has attachments. I will also cover how to combine multiple attachments to send in a single email.

IN THIS VIDEO:
✓ How to attach a single SharePoint list attachment to an email
✓ How to use the Filter Query to Filter SharePoint List Items by a Single Choice Column
✓ How to use the Filter Array action to Filter SharePoint List Items that have an Attachment
✓ How to use turn on Pagination and Set a Threshold in the Get Items action
✓ How to us the Top Count field in the Get Items action
✓ How to use the Get Attachments Action
✓ How to avoid the Apply to Each Action
✓ How to use the Get File Content Action
✓ How to Edit an Expression
✓ How to use the Compose Action
✓ How to Get Multiple SharePoint Attachments
✓ How to use the Append to Array Variable Action

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tom_riha 10,185 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hello,

is there a reason why you're using only the $content part from the file? I'd use the whole body:

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CU03101928-1 18 on at

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Yes it does but it also causes a problem.

1) in the workflow there are two places that attachments are used

- a. in approvals

- b. in outlook emails

2) your solution solves the attachment for outlook emails.

3) when used it prevents the use of attachments with approvals.

4) i am using two variables attachments=approvals and outlookattachments=outlook emails

5) i am currently setting up and solution in test to try to find out what is going on that prevents what was working attachments for approvals not working.

oh and thank you your solution is for outlook attachments is amazing!!!

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CU03101928-1 18 on at

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After further testing it appears that approval attachments are limited to one attachment only.

Add more and no attachments appear.

Any suggestion for overcoming this limitation?

Thank you for your time and consideration.

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creativeopinion 10,502 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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@DW-29012007-0 It's hard to offer any recommendations without seeing your full flow and logic behind it. In edit mode, click on each action to expand it. Upload a screenshot of your full flow.

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