How to send an automatic email when a Planner task with a certain category is completed

[Sergio_Rico]

Hello!

I would like to create a flow consisting of sending an email notification to certain users in the company when a Planner task of a certain category is marked as completed.

My attempts have focused on adding a condition between 'When a Task is completed' and 'Send an email notification'. This condition is based on selecting: the 'appliedCategories' value is equal to 'category2' value (Red Category). However, it always returns "False" in all situations.

Example (Spanish language)

Can someone give me a hand?

Thanks in advance.

[tom_riha · Accepted solution]

Hello @Sergio_Rico ,

if you check the description of the 'Red' (or any other) category dynamic content, it tells you that the value of the 'Red' dynamic content is 'true' if the planner task had the red category. Therefore, you should compare the 'Red' (or other category) dynamic content with 'true' expression in the condition.

[Sergio_Rico]

Hello @tom_riha ,

Thank you very much, that was exactly what I was trying to do. I understood that adding a category value in a condition already came defined by default with "true". As you indicated, the flow works perfectly.

Thanks again.

Best regards.

[Megs_beach]

I came across this post and was having the same issue. I was hoping you could tell me how to create the “true” expression (I don’t see it as an option). Many thanks!