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Send Email to Create a Planner task
ash7v - For the purpose of the community, the answer you were provided is to send an email when a planner task is created, not what you asked to do, which is to create a task in planner by sending an email.
You can accomplish this for an individual by using "Sent Items" folder with the Power Automate "When a new email arrives" trigger. You have to set the criteria so only the right emails turn into tasks, but that's a decision you'll have to make (importance, flagged, keywords in subject, copied a certain address, etc.)
Or for a group of people you could setup a dedicated "send to planner" email address or use the Office 365 Groups Mail triggers to create a task when a Group email box receives a new message.
You'll have to figure out how you want to assign tasks based on an email as there are lots of different ways to do it, either by using the CC field, parsing data in the body of the email in a standard format, using the sender address, etc.
Does the email have to send successfully? mbowgren
I ask because the idea of having to send these to an actual address seems like duplication/and or inbox spam, but I'm wondering about a process whereby I can assign tasks to different planners by sending emails to fake email addresses that they are (in my mind) linked to.
As an example, if I have a planner for Big Project One, but don't want to email myself or others every time I assign an email as a task to that planner, could I set up a flow rule that automatically adds the email to the planner if I email the non-existent email address removed for privacy reasons?
- It automatically removed the email I typed, but you can get the jist. Basically the project title (so I can remember it) and then a nonsense domain like Fake Email Com in the usual format
