Apply to Each is triggering twice for some reason?

[ryans32229]

Hi there!

Trying to make a flow to take an incoming email, grab the attachment, and send out the attachment in a different format.

The incoming email always has only one attachment, but Flow seems to believe it has two? And so whenever I add the attachment to my Send an Email card it puts it in an Apply To Each loop, and send out the email twice?

Here's what it looks like:

How can I:

a) Limit the Apply To Each loop to only occur once?

or

b) Make Flow realise there is only one attachment and take it out of the Apply To Each loop?

Thanks

[v-yuazh-msft]

Hi @ ryans32229,

Could you please share a screenshot of the run details of your flow?

If the incoming email always has only one attachment, the apply to each in the flow would only run one time and will not have a loop.

I afraid that you have two incoming emails arrive so the flow would run two times, so the email would be sent twice.

Please make sure the incoming email has only one attachment and see the run details of the flow.

Please let me know if your problem could be solved or show more details so we could provide a proper workaround for you.

Regards,
Alice Zhang

[ryans32229]

@v-yuazh-msft

Thanks for the response

Here is the run details:

As you can see the Apply To Each card is running twice.

The incoming email is a Power BI subscription, so it will definitely only have 1 attachment (a .png of the dashboard).

What more details would you like to see Alice?

Thanks

[v-yuazh-msft]

Hi @ryans32229,

The applay to each have run twice in one flow run as you said.

Please check the run detail of the trigger in your flow, and copy the details in the Body of the output of the trigger, you could paste the body in a notepad, see the two attachment of the email.and check the name of the extra attamment,idendify what file it is and why it is sent as the attachment.

Best regards,

Alice

[v-yuazh-msft]

Hi @ryans32229,

The applay to each have run twice in one flow run as you said.

Please check the run detail of the trigger in your flow, and copy the details in the Body of the output of the trigger, you could paste the body in a notepad, see the two attachment of the email.and check the name of the extra attamment,idendify what file it is and why it is sent as the attachment.

Best regards,

Alice

[v-yuazh-msft]

Hi @ryans32229,

The applay to each have run twice in one flow run as you said.

Please check the run detail of the trigger in your flow, and copy the details in the Body of the output of the trigger, you could paste the body in a notepad, see the two attachment of the email.and check the name of the extra attamment,idendify what file it is and why it is sent as the attachment.

Best regards,

Alice

[ryans32229]

Hi @v-yuazh-msft

Here is the attachment section of the body details:

  "Attachments": [
    {
      "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.OutlookServices.FileAttachment",
      "Id": "AAMkADM3NDJjZTAzLWIzYjktNGQwMi05N2M3LTdhNmVjYWQ4MjczOQBGAAAAAACSAIlHLdzxRLYalGwoVqlGBwBne0HwvqbaSq7XSbrN58bxAAAAAAEMAABne0HwvqbaSq7XSbrN58bxAABMC24xAAABEgAQAEowcGbLe9VOrCK8t7Jnjbo=",
      "Name": ",********,ryan.s*****@*******.co.uk.png",
      "ContentType": "application/octet-stream",
      "Size": 25957,
      "ContentBytes": "iV..."
    },
    {
      "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.OutlookServices.FileAttachment",
      "Id": "AAMkADM3NDJjZTAzLWIzYjktNGQwMi05N2M3LTdhNmVjYWQ4MjczOQBGAAAAAACSAIlHLdzxRLYalGwoVqlGBwBne0HwvqbaSq7XSbrN58bxAAAAAAEMAABne0HwvqbaSq7XSbrN58bxAABMC24xAAABEgAQAAafp6PtI-pKmlDhlnSimhY=",
      "Name": "959d496b7c39497c8375e9d71b60e91c",
      "ContentType": "image/jpeg",
      "Size": 25833,
      "ContentBytes": "iV..."
    }
  ]

As you can see it is indeed finding 2 attachments, however in the incoming email in my Outlook it only shows 1. Is it possible one of these is an 'invisible' attachment?

Either way, how can I get Flow to only pick up the image/jpeg attachment, and ignore the application/octet-stream one?

Thanks

[v-yuazh-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @ryans32229,

Please take a try to add a Condition under the Apply to each to check the Content type.

Or you add a expression in the Condition as below to check if the content type contain value "image":

@contains(items('Apply_to_each')?['ContentType'], 'image')

Please let me know if your problem could be solved.

Best regards,

Alice