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I've a document library. The document library has many attributes including a person name.

 

So I wish to send email to that person. My flow fails because I'm put as action to send email to the person and not to email. How can I retrieve person email? The person exists in active directory.

 

 

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    yashag2255 Profile Picture
    24,769 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Anonymous 

     

    What is the data type of the person name attribute? You can get the email address only if it is a Person type field. If it is a text field you cannot retrieve the email from the directory as the search cannot be performed just with name of the person (as it is not a unique identifier)

     

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  • v-litu-msft Profile Picture
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    Hi @Anonymous,

     

    @yashag2255 is correct, if you want to extract Email from the Active Directory, you should pass UPI not person name.

    If the person column is a person column you could choose these email directly in the dynamic content list:

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  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
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    As rightly mentioned, the problem was that I was passing the name of the person and not the email.

    So now it's fixed.

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