Send email to user who started flow run from power app ?

[sudosaurus]

Hello,

I have a flow that generates a PDF from Power Apps which is triggered from a .Run command on a button in my app.

The existing workflow works correctly, however at the end of the flow, I wish to send an email to the user who ran the flow from the app (clicked the button).

Unsure how to do this?

Thanks!

[Pstork1]

Add a parameter to the Flow for the email you want to use. You can get that in the Power App using User().Email for the parameter.

[sudosaurus]

@Pstork1 
So would I use this at the end of my .Run command?

'BSC-PowerApps-v2'.Run(htmlBody_1.HtmlText, varBuildingPhoto, Now(), varBuildingPhotoID, htmlBody_2.HtmlText, htmlBody_3.HtmlText, varItem.ID, User().Email);

and then on my trigger would I use ?

[Pstork1]

The run command is correct, but you probably want to use a name for the parameter in the trigger that doesn't include special characters. Something like "Submitter Email".

[sudosaurus]

@Pstork1 - I am seeing this error on the Run button:

[Pstork1]

That error is suggesting that you didn't fill in the text box being used to send the Body parameter.  You can't send empty strings as parameters.

[sudosaurus]

@Pstork1 
Does it need to be text rather than Email (below)?

Or is there an expectation for a textbox to be in the app that displays the users email address?

[Pstork1]

No, it doesn't need to be a Textbox. The difference between the email parameter and text is that the email parameter will verify that its a valid email format.  the error you were getting was because one of the other text parameters, probably Body, was sent an empty string. You can't send that to Power Automate.

[sudosaurus · Accepted solution]

@Pstork1 
I managed to get around this by using this in a people column in the sharepoint document library that the PDF's are being created in: 

@triggerOutputs()?['headers']?['x-ms-user-email']

Then I used that output in another flow to send an email.

[Pstork1]

Not sure why you were having issues with the other way of doing it, but I'm glad you found something that would work.