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christina_hoeglinger
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Sep 25, 2019

Naming of attachments in Flow

I have the following question: I have created a flow to save attachments from a certain mail address to sharepoint. Now I want to name the files with flow when I save them in sharepoint. The name of...
  • Norman Young's avatar
    Sep 25, 2019

    Hi christina_hoeglinger,

     

    You can use an "Initialize Variable" action to strip out the unnecessary text and then use that variable to set the file name.

     

    Here is the code for the variable (based on your example): 

    last(split(first(split(variables('varEmailSubject'), ' - ')), ' '))
    "varEmailSubject" stores your example email subject line of "text text 11849850 - text". You will have to change it to the correct "Dynamic Content" within Flow.
     
    Here is how it looks in Flow and the output:
     
    I hope this helps.
     
    Norm

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