Not Pulling an Email Recipient from Dynamic Content

[ryanpre]

Hello,

I'm experiencing an issue with my Power Automate flow where it fails to pull the email address from dynamic content at one step but successfully pulls it further down the flow.

In the first condition, the "Send an email (V2)" action fails to retrieve the email address from the dynamic content, resulting in an error. However, the same action in the second condition successfully pulls the email address and sends the email.

I've double-checked the condition logic, dynamic content references, and ensured there are no issues with the email column.

After the test is complete, I look at the results, the condition seems to be working correctly since the right ones are getting marked as TRUE and FALSE. Just very confused why the recipient is consistently left blank. Even did a test where I added a second Email column in Excel and linked it to that column, and still nothing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[creativeopinion]

@ryanpre I think the logic in your flow needs to be adjusted. Are you able to share a screenshot of your flow with in the Classic Editor (toggle off the New Designer). Click on each action to expand it and ensure you are in edit mode. 

Instead of using an apply to each action to loop through every row in your Excel table and running condition checks to see whether or not the row matches your criteria—it would be more efficient to filter out the rows you'd like to send an email to first BEFORE you loop through them. 

For that, you will need to use a Filter Array action. You might be interested in these YT Tutorials:

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Did you know that the Condition action has a limit of 10 conditions? Although it might look like the Filter Array action can only accept one condition—this is not true. By using the advanced mode you can enter multiple conditions into a Filter Array action with an expression.

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✅ How to Check the Number of Items returned from a Filter Array Action

✅ How to Cross-Reference Data in Excel with a SharePoint List

✅ How the Filter Array Action Works

✅ How to Access the Dynamic Content from a Filter Array Action

✅ How to Filter Items by a Key

✅ How to Filter Items by Matching a Substring

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3️⃣ Looping through an Unfiltered Array

At the end of the video I share a few helpful insights when it comes to using the Apply to Each action in your flow.

IN THIS VIDEO:

✅ How to avoid the Apply to Each action with a single item array

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✅ How to use the Select action

✅ How to convert an array to a string with the Select action

✅How to use the Filter Query field

✅ How to count the number of items in an array

✅ How to use a condition control

✅ How to use the concurrency control

✅ How to set a top count

✅ How to use Compose actions for troubleshooting

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[ryanpre]

@creativeopinion 

Thank you for the reply, I will certainly try using Filter Array Action. Originally didn't because I don't mind if it doesn't run as efficiently as possible. I have attached 2 breakdowns of the flow as well as the screenshot of it erroring with nothing in the Recipient box. Since it has TRUE as the expression result, I would assume it would do the same thing and not find the email even with Filter Array. Because it is working, just not as efficient.