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GFinlayTerumo
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Power Apps Attachment input to Power Automate Email attachment

I have a Power App which the user attaches files into and part of the submit function then sends an email to a defined list of users with those files as the attachment.

Currently the Power Automate sends the files with incorrect contents, they have the raw JSON data.

 

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Attachments control in Power App

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Code for converting the attachments to a collection then running the Power Automate, converting the Collection to JSON Binary Data

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Collection with the attachments

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Power Automate solution getting the files and defining the array

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Parsing JSON

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Placing the files into the array, this seems to be where the problem is, I think the DataStream needs converted but I don't know how.

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This is what the email attachment files are sent as, I know I need the data after the base64, but I don't know how to define that from what is in the Parse JSON action.

 

Is there another way to do it or can I have a variable that gets the bas64 data from the DataStream output?

 

Thanks

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GFinlayTerumo
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Figured it out by using 

 

dataUriToBinary(items('Apply_to_each_3')['DataStream'])

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GFinlayTerumo
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Figured it out by using 

 

dataUriToBinary(items('Apply_to_each_3')['DataStream'])

Hi,

 

Thanks for your follow up post! I am glad that you were able to resolve your issue. Hopefully this will prove useful for future communities users.

 

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Alex

 

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Hi @GFinlayTerumo, thanks for posting your solution here. I'm facing the same issue. I'm uploading file from my PowerApps, but I don't quite know how to implement your process. Is it possible to explain it in more details?

Thank you so much for your time

Hi

 

If you place the dataUriToBinary(items('Apply_to_each_3')['DataStream']) into the ContentBytes section of the Append to array variable hopefully it will work for you as it did for me.

 

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Thanks

Anonymous
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Thank you! I'd like to ask you what is the process to convert an attachment with the edit form from blobmanager to contentbyte. How did you convert a file in byte in powerautomate?

 

Thank you in advance

Hi I did not use blobmanager for this process.  The second image in my original question shows how I collected the attachment data as JSON and then parse through it within Power Automate.

 

Thanks

Anonymous
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In my case I'm trying to import file from my local device. I found out I can use the trigger PowerApps(V2) and get the contentBytes from the Body, but it does not work when you have N attachments. They're all imported as blobmanager file in my powerapps

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