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Hi, I'm attaching a pdf document to an item in a SharePoint list, the incoming email does not open the pdf. It says "the document was not decoded correctly" (photo 1). The inicial pdf says 112 Kb of weight (photo 2) and the email attachment says 219 bytes (photo 3).

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How can I solve this?

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I'm manually attaching the file to a SharePoint list and in the flow I use the action "When a new item is modified" ant It evaluates some conditions. I'm using an action "get attachment content" to have access to the file attached in the list.

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After this, in the action "Send an email" in advanced options, I use this to relate the file:

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Hi there. Can you post an image of the Flow steps used to attach the item to the email? Specifically looking for the filename and file content parts.

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Hi @edgonzales I posted the images of my flow at the end of the original post.

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Ok, the "ID" is just a unique identifier (almost like a serial number), so you want to put the actual content in that field. That's why you're getting the error in Outlook.

Take a look at this thread and it will help attach a SharePoint file to the email.

Keep us posted.

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I've changed ID for actual content and it generates the email but the fil still doesn't open.

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Did you follow the steps on the other thread? Are you getting the same error or is something else happening? Can you post a pic of the updated steps?

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Hi @Anonymous ,

Please try the following method to configure Flow. Considering that the item may contain multiple attachments, you need to use the following methods to integrate the attachment.

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Details of Apply to each:

Besides, please check this blog and see if it helps:

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/multiple-attachments-single-email/

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Hi @v-bacao-msft this was really helpul. Thanks.

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