Email SharePoint list item with attachments

[Jonathan_Murray]

Good morning,

I've read many examples and solutions to describe what I want to do (Email SharePoint list item with attachments), and I believe I am doing everything correctly, however I have two issues that don't seem to appear anywhere else.

First:  When I add the JSON to populate my 'attachArray', I am prompted to "Enter a valid json" until I add an extra comma or semicolon after the code.  This doesn't seem to affect anything, but it's definitely odd.

Second, while my flow runs without error, and the output looks correct, the attachments never make it to the email.  I am currently testing with two small, simple text files.  Here is the flow step:

Here is the output:

The raw inputs:

{
    "host": {
        "connectionReferenceName": "shared_office365",
        "operationId": "SendEmailV2"
    },
    "parameters": {
        "emailMessage/To": "deleted@email;",
        "emailMessage/Subject": " Test... has been created or modified [TEST]",
        "emailMessage/Body": "<p>This is a test<br>\nTest Text One.txt, Test Text Two.txt, </p>",
        "emailMessage/Attachments": [
            "{ \n“Name”:Test Text One.txt,\n“ContentBytes”This is test text document one\n};",
            "{ \n“Name”:Test Text Two.txt,\n“ContentBytes”This is test text document two\n};"
        ],
        "emailMessage/Importance": "Normal"
    }
}

The downloaded OUTPUT:

{"statusCode":200,"headers":{"Pragma":"no-cache","x-ms-request-id":"b7291d4d-a003-2493-98df-8b57e3afe990","Strict-Transport-Security":"max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains","X-Content-Type-Options":"nosniff","X-Frame-Options":"DENY","Cache-Control":"no-store, no-cache","Set-Cookie":"ARRAffinity=59fce84ed840ff13733470e527d4d138afeb7dd6f97aa09a47d6bce8875b278b;Path=/;HttpOnly;Secure;Domain=office365-usdde.azconn-usdde.p.azurewebsites.us,ARRAffinitySameSite=59fce84ed840ff13733470e527d4d138afeb7dd6f97aa09a47d6bce8875b278b;Path=/;HttpOnly;SameSite=None;Secure;Domain=office365-usdde.azconn-usdde.p.azurewebsites.us","Timing-Allow-Origin":"*","x-ms-apihub-cached-response":"false","Date":"Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:36:36 GMT","Content-Length":"0","Expires":"-1"}}

And here is the email received (without attachments...):

Thanks for reading... Suggestions?

[ekarim2020 · Accepted solution]

Hi Jonathan. Please check your append to array variable action as it seems to be missing the second colon character. The append to variable action should be similar to this:

Ellis

[Jonathan_Murray]

Excellent eye, sir; I made the correction first thing and gave it a test.  Unfortunately, it had no effect; the result remains unchanged.  I can see the attachment contents in the output from "Get attachment content", however the contents apparently do not get added to the array in "Append to array variable."

I was hoping that correcting the missing colon would also resolve my need for extra punctuation at the end of the JSON, however that did not change, either.  I can't help but think they're related and will pursue that issue today.

Thank you, and any more insight is welcomed.

[Jonathan_Murray]

Update!  I have no idea what just happened, but I was playing with variables trying to figure out the "valid json" problem when I stripped it down to { }, saved, and added in one element at a time trying to find out what was prompting the error.  I got the entire json rebuilt, and it resolved without error.  And the function worked.

Thanks to anyone who has read this and tried to think of a solution, and thank you Ellis, for pointing out my syntax error which led me to a solution!