Create Column that brings together all emails

[w4schba3r]

Hi everyone,

I have just started my Power Apps journey and am building my first app with a sharepoint list as a data source.

Within the app, new projects can be created with several fields to be filled. After everything is saved, an email should be sent out that confirms the information entered to everyone involved in the project.

Therefore I would require an additional column that includes all of the following email addresses:

- Email of Creator (based on automatically created Column "Created by")

- Email of Project Owner (based on Column "Project Owner" that is specified as a "Person" type in SP)

- Email of Project Deputy (based on Column "Project Deputy" that is specified as a "Person" type in SP)

- Emails of Admins (separate SP list with 5 users that should be part of any email)

What would be the best way to concatenate all those email addresses in one column to then use for further communication? 

Thank you so much in advance for your help! 

[RandyHayes · Accepted solution]

@w4schba3r 

Are you actually looking to store this in a column, or just need to use it within the app to generate an email?

At either rate, you simply need to concatenate all the values you want together and either use in the app or store in a column if you need long-term storage.

Are you doing this as part of a form submit, or do you have some other mechanism in place to store the primary data?

If it is from a Form (recommended), then in your OnSuccess action of the form you can perform a formula such as this:

With(Self.LastSumbit,
    With({emailTo:
        Concat([
            'Created by'.Email,
            'Project Owner'.Email,
            'Project Deputy'.Email,
            "list of other semicolon separated emails"
            ],
            Value, ";"
        )},

        Office365Outlook.SendEmailV2(
            emailTo,
            "Subject",
            "Email Body"
        )
    )
)

If you need to do it in a column, then I would simply do this within the form for the column you want to store the data in.

I hope this is helpful for you.

[AhmedSalih]

@w4schba3r , I would concatenate them with semicolon. You can then use the value of that field in the TO field in Power Automate Send Email Action for example or you might need to use the Split function  to break them into a table of substrings.

[w4schba3r]

Hey, I still have some issue with the formula - it does not allow me to select the .Email - i currently just tried for the following two fields:

With(Self.LastSumbit,
    With({emailTo:
        Concat([
            'Table'.'Deputy Owner'.Email;
            'Table'.'Guarantee Owner'.Email],
            Value, ";"
        )},

        Office365Outlook.SendEmailV2(
            emailTo,
            "Subject",
            "Email Body"
        )
    )
)

The following error occurs but I could not solve it, do you know what could be the reason for this?

Thank you guys so much already for your help! 🙂