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BkissUNICEF
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Trying to use the Display name from an e-mail sender in a Condition

Dear Power Automate Community,

 

I need a little help. I am trying to build up a cloud flow where the trigger would be an e-mail (with a specific subject) that I receive. Based on the sender's name (starting letter), it would do certain actions (like re-sending to a specific colleague).

I already figured out that the "display name" is not a property of the original message trigger, however, with the help of the "Get user profile", I was able to get it from Azure.

My problem is that I could not use how to use that property in a Condition ("starts with") as it always goes to error, and from the error message I am only guessing that the issue is with the variable type, but I couldn't manage to find out what variable type the condition would accept (I tried multiple). Please see my last attempt and the error message.

 

Can you please suggest where I am stuck and how could I sort it out? Shouldn't the Condition/'Starts with' accept a string valuable?

 

Thank you for any help in advance!

 

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Hi @BkissUNICEF 

 

As per the screenshots, the condition had evaluated but the flow failed in the action added inside Apply to each in the "Yes" block. Pls check which action it fails inside "Apply to each" action. I might give a try if you could share the screenshots of all the action inside Apply to each action.

 

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Dear @ManishSolanki ,

Thanks, I also already figured out that the issue is not actually with the Condition (it roots tp the branch that it should), but with the Loop below it. Slightly re-edited (in an attempt to fix it, but still not working 🙂 ), this is how it looks currently.

 

Grateful if you have a hint what the issue could be, because I (still) can not figure it out. 😔

 

Thx!

Balazs

 

 

Hi Balazs,

 

Pls get rid of "Apply to each 5" action which is not required. You can select the attachment name & content from "Get attachment" action in the dynamic content window as shown below:

ManishSolanki_0-1695656325755.png

 

The flow will look like after condition action:

ManishSolanki_1-1695656433022.png

 

If this helps & solves your problem, please remember to give a 👍 and accept my solution as it will help others in the future.

 

Thanks

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Manish Solanki
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Dear @ManishSolanki ,

Thanks for your insight! Getting rid of the "Apply to each 5" loop indeed helped to make the flow work. Now it runs, however, it's still not good. First of all, it runs an endless number of times, yesterday it totally flooded my mailbox, until I managed to kill all instances of it, which -for some reason I can't explain- was proliferating...

It's probably the fault of the loop, which should be structured differently. Also, if there are multiple attachments in the original e-mail, the e-mail I want to send through the flow will be as much, as the number of attachments in the original e-mail, while I would like to have one single e-mail with all the attachments.

As a recap, here is what I would like to aim:

1. a Learner sends an e-mail (with a pre-defined subject line) to an e-mail address

2. some information from this e-mail should then be re-sent (in a new e-mail) to a tutor, who will review the assignment

3. there will be multiple reviewers, the submissions should be shared among them based on the startling letter of the Learner (based on sharing logic)

4. I do not want to re-send the complete (original) e-mail, as I want the reviewers to work on the submission without knowing who submitted the task (anonimity).

5. These are the information I want to share with reviewers (from the original e-mail): 1. submission date and time; 2. original e-mail text (e-mail body); 3. attachments from the original e-mail - all in one single email.

 

I send you a screenshot of the whole flow as it looks currently, and of the e-mail (re-)sending part, as it looks now. I would be grateful if you could suggest a way to re-organize my flow so that: 1. it does not repeat endlessly; 2. it sends all attachments in one e-mail.

 

Thank you in advance!

 

Kind regards,

Balazs

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