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How do copy an email attachment from O365 Group email to O365 Groups Files?
We're currently working on allowing saving a document received to the current group's files. We're also looking to expand this concept to saving a document received in the inbox or in any group to any group the user is a member of.
Thank you,
Nadia Fortini - MSFT
Nadia-Fortini is there any update on the status of saving email attachments? I am not looking for a time, just wondering it is still being done.
This was already implemented a while ago :-)
If you have received an email with an attachment in a Group, check the Save to OneDrive option, from there you can directly save it to the Group files or you can even browse for another Group.
Maarten Eekels My mistake but thank you for your response! :)
I meant to ask - is there a way to automatically save an email attachment that is sent to an Office 365 Group to the Office 365 Sharepoint Site.
Instead of manually saving the attachment...
Thank you!
Bryan Kuester is the purpose of storing everything in the SharePoint automatically to view everything in one place or be able to co-author document by default?
We are optimizing the experience where user is able to see all their content (attachment + sharepoint files) in one view and be able to get to them quickly regardless of how they are shared. This is surfacing in Outlook web trough the "Files" experience in Groups and will show in other places too.
We are also optimizing the experience where users can pick a file or save a file to sharepoint directly before sharing on email. We want to minimize the number of steps to do that and you will see that in the attach experience of Outlool desktop and Outlook web both. This minimizes the version problem that happens with attachments floating in email.
If we do the automatic upload of attachment to SharePoint, we don't want to have different copy floating in email (attach) and another one in SharePoint. It will fragment the document and user has to notify others that attachment is no longer the version of truth. All this makes the scenario a bit more complicated from user perspective and not something that user may want to do every single time automatically, which is why in first iteration we make it easy to simply save an attachment to group sharepoint files manually so user can make that decisions.
File collaboration is an critical part of Groups experience and we look for your feedback and usage as we continue to evolve. - Thanks, Amit
Thanks for the note! We want to store everything in Sharepoint as a central location. I see now what you are saying and the "multiple copies" sencario makes sense.
I really like the Office 365 Groups functionality and it sounds like you guys are on the right path for continued improvements.
thank you!
Ah, OK :-) No automatic way possible yet unfortunately. Flow and Logic Apps have a trigger that can watch shared mailboxes since recently, but Groups mailboxes are still not supported.
On the other hand, the way the Files tab works nowadays, it shows attachments in emails sent to the Group as well.
This only works in Outlook on the web though.
Did anyone find an automated flow solution yet to save files sent to an O365 group email directly to the group document library? You can click on the attachment and save to the library but really want a flow connector to do the job for me. Thanks everyone.
