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Hi All,

I am new to this program and community and honestly I am loving this Automation.
I tried few automation on my own and it works fine.

But for this simple flow (not for me) I need your help.

The idea of the flow is this:
1. I have to download the email attachment which is in zip format (always) and it contains a excel file in it.

2. After downloading I have to extact it and upload it to the sharePoint location. And I have to delete the previous date attachment from it which I have uploaded earlier.

Now I have to do this everyday. So I want to your help me with this in making this flow.

So in conclusion.
I have to download that zip email attachment, extract it and upload the file to the SharePoint location also I have to remove the previous day file from there. After that I have to delete this zip file as it has no use now.

I hope you got the idea what I want.

Thanks in Advance.

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BCBuizer 22,505 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @UCantStopME ,

My idea is to have a flow that is triggered by the arrival of the email where you'll have to set some conditions so the rest of the flow is only executed for the right Emails.

After triggering, first the existing Excel file is retrieved and then deleted:

Again you'll have to set conditions to retrieve the right file only. Since the Get Files action will return a table, the first function can be used to prevent the Delete file action from being placed in a "Apply to each" loop.

After the existing file has been deleted, the zip file that's attached to the email should be saved, extracted and then deleted:

In case the Excel file in the Zip file always has the same name, setting the "Overwrite Flag" in the Extract folder action to Yes should make the deletion of the existing Excel file redundant.

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UCantStopME 16 on at

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Hi Thanks @BCBuizer

I got the idea, if possible can you share me the compete flow, as I am very new to this tool so if you skip any step I won't able to understand it completely.
Thanks

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BCBuizer 22,505 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @UCantStopME ,

With the above I'm sure you'll get a long way. In case you run into any issues, let me know.

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UCantStopME 16 on at

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Hi @BCBuizer

Thank you
But
I am more confused for now don't know exactly how to work with identifiers. Means how to identify a file and get it's details to perform action on that particular file.

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BCBuizer 22,505 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @UCantStopME ,

Typically you'd use the dynamic content option in Power Automate, but sometimes you'll need a bit more than that which is where expressions come in. A full overview of expressions can be found here: Reference guide for expression functions - Azure Logic Apps | Microsoft Learn

In the below screenshots you can see the parameters that should be given to the Get Attachment (V2) action to retrieve the contents of the first attachment of the Email triggering the flow:

Ps. Don't worry about the difference in User Interface, this is the new one that was introduced recently. You can use the same dynamic content/expressions in both interfaces:

messageId: @triggerOutputs()?['body/id'] attachmentId: @first(triggerOutputs()?['body/attachments']))?['id']

These you can literally copy/paste in the fields in your action and they should work.

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