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Flow to extract attachments from Inbox
- No - the 'apply to each' required are automatically added by Flow when it detects that you are using an output that is an array - e.g. if you use an output from 'get emails' (rather than get email) - the action is automatically put inside a 'apply to each'.
Basically, you Flow would need to look almost identical to mine, in terms of blocks, at least.
Regarding the limit on number of emails it will get - I'm not sure, but it would be easy to test.
If you do find there is a limit, you may need to move batches of emails into a folder, and run the Flow multiple times.
Thanks Rob Ellis
I have been setting up your ideas, however it doesn't seam work.
What seams to happen is that if I manually copy 1 email into the subfolder and then MANUALLY run the flow it will copy the attachment to a sharepoint or onedrive site
However if I copy 2 or 3 email it and then manually run it will only copy the attachment from the "newest" email, it will ignore the other emails.
It NEVER run automatically.
Attached are screen shots of what I have done - any ideas on how to get this working would be appreciated.
Pn1995 It is likely that the trigger does not occur when you move an existing email into the folder - try configuring an Outlook rule to move messages into that folder when received, then send a test email.
For dealing with existing emails in the folder, my 2nd option would be the one to go for, I think.
That would need to be triggered manually or on a schedule, and use the action 'get emails' (not 'get email' - because you want more than 1)
Thanks again Rob
I tried to get emails but it still seams to do the same thing. When I manually trigger (I guess you mean just press Test) it only ever seams to look at 1 email in the folder not all of the,
This is my setup...any other suggestions would be appreciated
I'm not using a shared mailbox, I'm testing with my user mailbox, so the trigger I have is 'when an email is received' - but using the action as per below, if I move an unread email or a read email from another folder into the 'Processed' folder - the flow triggers and saves out the attachment every time:
so in theory that would work if you created a new folder and had that flow trigger on the new folder, then moved emails from another folder into the new folder.
I'll give it a go using a shared mailbox - BRB.
Thanks Rob Ellis, I guess the main issue we are having is that it doesn't seam to trigger if more than 1 email is moved - ie if we move or copy 3, 4 or 5 emails it only every processes the "newest" one of those mails.
and we can't seam to get it to look at a existing mailbox that has the 2000 attachments in there and process more than 1 of those
