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Power Automate cloud flow - send an email

Hi

 

I'm struggling to retrieve the foster claimer email to then send the email to.

 

I connect to the Animals Information table, when a row is modified (i.e. status changed to Claimed for Foster)

 

Then get row by ID to retrieve the foster claimer email

 

Then send an email

 

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Are you sure that your Foster Claimer column (in the Animals table) is a lookup column to the Foster table?

 

From your photos of the available dynamic content, it seems like the data type is text. This might be why your input on the flow status was "FH-035", because it just got the text value from the record - it didn't get the data from the Foster table. 

 

The lookup columns should have several options in the dynamic content, like in my photo where there is Value and Type. When you choose Foster Claimer (Value) it will get the GUID.

 

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StineN
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Advocate II

Hi @mgreen91!

 

To get the information from the related Foster table, you need to first use "Get a row by ID" on the Animals table, like on the School Library demonstration in the course (first Loans and then Students, if I remember correctly). Use the dynamic variable with the same name as the table - that contains the unique value of the row that triggered the flow. 

 

Then you can use the variable FosterClaimer (value) from the Animals table as RowID on the "Get a row by ID" on the Foster table. After that all of the columns from the Foster table should be available as dynamic content, including the email. 

 

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Hope this helps! 🙂 

 

Hi

 

I have just added this step however it is still showing the same error, it seems to be a problem with the Foster Claimer ID?

 
BCBuizer
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Hi @mgreen91 ,

 

I see you are trying to use the 'Animal ID' column to select a record, but that's not the right column to use. Instead, try using the 'Animal information' column.

 

This is similar to what @StineN posted although in her case the table and column are named slightly different, but still match between them:

 

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Hello

 

The unique identifier for my Animals Information table is the AnimalID column

 

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Hi @mgreen91,

 

This is correct, you would use this in the Row ID for the 'Get a row by ID' action.

 

This essentially gets the details of a specific record when your 'Trigger' is activated, i.e., a record is modified.

BCBuizer
Multi Super User
Multi Super User

Hi @mgreen91 ,

 

Apologies, I see I was looking at the wrong action. The issue is with the Foster Information:

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Hello @mgreen91 

 

The Row ID field should be a GUID, while in your photo it says "FH-035" instead of the unique text string that is automatically created for the record.

 

Here's my flow, where you can see that the input on Row ID is this GUID, from the FosterClaimer column: 

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In the dynamic content, I chose the one with "value" to get the GUID: 

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Sorry, I'm not sure which to select for the Foster information table GUID. I have the following options:

 

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