Outlook issue with contacts that have been assigned multiple email addresses with the create contact action

[SH2021]

Dear Community

I am looping through one outlook contact folder, retrieved with "get contacts", and use "create contacts" in every iteration to replicate these contacts in a destination folder. In each iteration, I copy the data in almost all available create contact fields. Unfortunately, I run into a strange problem when trying to copy a second email address. In my latest trial, I created an array variable "emailadds", which is empty at the start of the iteration:

It then collects the current contact's email addresses. If it collects none or 1 address, I add one (shown below) or two nonsese addresses afterwards to make sure that "emailadds" contains exactly two entries.

Next, I add both entries of emailadds in the fields "Email addresses adress - 1" and "Email addresses adress - 2" using variables('emailadds')[0] and variables('emailadds')[1].

The flow runs successfully and if I look at the output of the successful flow, I see exactly the two email addresses that I expect under "Email addresses". So far so good.

If I now open the destination folder in Outlook (my personal standard contact folder) something amazing has happened: every newly created contact contains all the email address, phone numbers, normal addresses etc. of ALL the contacts that I created in the flow, when I open this contact from the "Person" view. Opening one single contact can therefore crash outlook if I created many contacts in my flow, as each contact contains way too much information. Interestingly, everything seems normal if I open the contacts from the list view!

My problem is solved if I get rid of the second email address, then, every contact is created normally. Hence, this is what I will have to work with at the moment. Btw, adding an email address name does not change anything. 

Kind regards
Sean

PS: Ideally, I would like to have an action that enables me to copy full outlook contacts from one outlook contact folder to another, please support here: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/MPAForum/load-autosave/true.

PS2: I would not need this flow at all if Microsoft makes it possible to synchronise contact folders that are shared by others with me on my android and/or ios phone. It seems I can only get my own personal contact folder synchronised. 

[SH2021 · Accepted solution]

I understand the problem now: Outlook is linking all contacts, hence adding the same "nonsensical" email addresses causes all the contact cards to mix up horribly.

[v-liwei-msft]

Hi @SH2021 

Glad to see you solved the problem. 

You could mark your answer/solution as a 'Solution' to allow more people with the same problem to solve their own problem as quickly as possible. 

Thank you so much! 

Best Regards,

Levi