Email to Slack

[Anonymous]

I am able to successfully use the Email to Slack flow template, and it successfully triggers a Slack message to my desired channel.  The issue I am having is when the sender has their email default set to html. In that case what gets posted is html when when what  really want is a readable text format.  For those senders that have their email default set to text, the Slack post looks just fine. How can I convert the html format when posting to  Slack?

[v-micsh-msft]

Hi glo8,

Could you please share the flow that used here?

For the template, I oculd only find the following one:

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/galleries/public/templates/99b8a1b6-9d53-4c3c-99ab-29c311b554b6/get...

Please help to confirm if this is the one you used, I will try to test it.

Some workarounds that you may give it a try:

For the Email sent in HTML format, add a condition to check the IS Html status, if yes, then send the email again to your own email account, then configure your email account with the following action;

For those not in HTML format, just add the Slack action.

Hope the information above is helpful.

Regards

[Anonymous]

You have correctly identified the flow I am using. Thank you for the suggestion of addition that condition - I am new to flow and  wasn't even aware I could do that so I learned something new. Unfortunately I can't use this solution becucase the email is coming from my Inbox and I need my inbox set to html vs text. Ideally there would be some way to convert. If not, I guess then my use case for delivering emails to a Slack channel may not be possbile to solve.

[v-micsh-msft]

Hi @Anonymous,

Thanks for the update.

For convert, there should be a way, which might not be so simple.

After the first action (When new email arrives), add a compose action, add the Email body as the Compose Input, after that, using the string functions mentioned in the article below to convert the Compose outputs in another Compose Action:

Workflow Definition Language

Remove the HTML tag, only leave the plain text.

See if this thread would help:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Forum/Tips-convert-from-Twitter-s-quot-Created-At-quot-string-format/td-p/14221

Regards

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I imagine you have this covered now, but in case not, they added an Html to Text conversion.

Our office finally switched emails so I could work on the integration at last (been counting down the days!).

Seems to work quite well!