I'm currently building a new ticketing system for my workplace. When an email is received it generates a ticket number and few files in a SharePoint document library. One of those folders is "Attachments" where the flow I am building is supposed to put any attached documents. As far as I can tell I've followed other guides to the tee, however it renders the attachments un-openable. After downloading the files it did make and opening them in Notepad++, the content of the files is completely different and I can't seem to figure out why... I've been testing mostly with *.docx files, but it does the same for other file types as well. Please see attached screenshot of the attachments getter part of the flow. Any support is greatly appreciated!
Attachment Getter Screenshot
Note: This is how the guides told me to do it, however I did try changing the "File Content" box to "Attachments Content" instead of "Current Item" from the dynamic content menu to no avail.
Try use attachments content directly:
How to save Email Attachments to your SharePoint Document Library
Can you try to get the file content.
File content should help getting attachment. You will have to recreate a file though.
For this problem, please check if you have set the value of Include Attachments in the trigger to Yes.
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I am trying to build a flow based on the PowerAutomate template
Create Planner task and add attachments to SharePoint on new email
arrival
This template works fine, in that it saves all the mail attachments to my sharepoint. But it only shows the link to the last attachment in the task.
I have worked around it, by adding a string variable and appending all the sharepoint paths to this variable.
With my Flow, everything runs smoothly. But the stored files are about 10%- 20% bigger in size than the original and they turn out to be corrupted.
The only difference I can spot in the saving of the file is as follows:
Template section has "get attachment" and the according "body('get attachment'):
While my in my version I can only select "get attachment (V2)" and the corresponding "body('get attachment (V2)')
There is an option with V2 that allows or disallows chunking, but there is no effect on my filesize.
The other difference is, that I have my flow create a different folder based on the task ID, since there where errors, if the same name attachment came a second time. But I have tried my flow without the added folders and there is no difference in file size.
The original files:
and the corrupted files:
It makes no difference if I use the sharepoint link provided through the flow to my new planner task, or if I open the files directly within sharepoint. The result is an error.
Can anyone guess, why my flow seems to store something more within the file and thus corrupting it? I can provide the other parts of the flow in more detail too. Here is the overview of my custom flow:
I actually found the answer after rewriting it from scratch:
Using the old template had me looking for the wrong information when adding the attachment content to sharepoint. I had always searched for "body" which was used in the template and gave me this
But searching for attachment the dynamic content actually showed me the right pieces. I am not sure, if I missed it before, or if recoding a template hid them somehow. With the rewrite from scratch I found this:
So, to make a long story short: Use "Content Bytes" of the "Get_Attachment_(V2)" Method and everything works fine.
I am trying to get the attachments of some emails and check if that attachment already exists in SharePoint. However, since the flow may have already run over some attachments that have already been received, they may or may not already be in SharePoint, so I first have to check SharePoint if the attachment exists and if they don't, create the file using the email attachment content.
So what I have so far is replicating a process that was described here
The problem that quickly arises is that under "Get file content using path" action, the File Path input box(circled below) won't let me append a file path that isn't currently already in a document folder.
Not sure if this is still a valid way to accomplish it or if there's another way. I have checked all over the place and still haven't been able to find a solution. If there's anybody that can help it would be greatly appreciated!!
To tackle this what you can do is to create a variable using Initialize variable action and compose the path e.g. '/DocumentLibrary/file.ext' that you want to check if exists. then you can refer to that variable in your folder path box for Get file content using path action. Please see the screenshot:
Next you can configure run afterfor file creation action and create file if Get file content using path action has failed, otherwise do other stuff that is required. I have tested this for sending different emails based upon file found or not found and it works well.
Hope this solves your issue.
I am using outlook mail api to receive and show mail content which can also include attachments of any type. I had managed to show pdf files using pdf-view module but for excel and doc files no such module or anything exist.Could anyone suggest something for this.Any help would be appreciated.Thank you
So what I found from my research is you can not display a word file using java script or angular, it only opens up a dialog box to download the file.
As an alternate what you can do is convert word file to HTML and preview it in browser. Mammoth.JS is the best option for this.
I have a download control bound to a rich text field. My users are finding that some documents cause errors. Right now, I have an XPage that has little more than the rich text field on it. For example, when I attach a certain .docx file to a document using the Notes client, then try to download the attachment via the Web using the download control on an xpage, I get a runtime error stating that there is an invalid date. I actually get the error just by trying to open the XPage, before I even get a chance to click on the link within the download control. But neither the xpage nor the attachment have any date field on them. Other attachments don't cause the error, even other .docx documents. And if I convert the .docx to .doc, the problem goes away. But I can't tell my users to never attach .docx documents. Does anyone have any idea why some .docx (not all, though) documents attached to a Notes document would cause such a runtime error in XPages?
I know that a Document Library in SharePoint 2007 has a multi-file uploader (an ActiveX control that -- and only if you have Office 2003+ installed) but how would I use this same feature with a normal (non-document-library) List item?
Uploading files to a normal List item involves clicking the "upload" link and browsing/uploading files one by one. Is there a better way than this? Surely there must be.
Jake
There is an approach I use, but there is no UI support for it. You may find it a bit tedious for onsey-twosey uploads, but it saved me hours once for serious bulk uploads.
The same WebDAV functionality that we get when using "Open with Windows Explorer" on a document library is available for a list.
Say I have a list at http://myorg.com/sites/Widgets/Lists/MyList.
I can open the list in Windows Explorer by going to the address \\myorg.com\sites\Widgets\Lists\MyList.
Attachments are stored in the sub-folder Attachments, which contains folders with numeric names (1, 2, 3, ... and so on). The numbers correspond to the item ID of the list item. Pick (or create) a folder with the ID corresponding to the item you want to upload to, and it's drag-and-drop from there.
Short of writing your own mulit-file upload web part I think you are going to be stuck with either one at a time (i.e. an attachment to the list item) or switch to a document library. Don't forget that you can customise your library to behave much like a list.
Why is it a problem to use a document library?
I seem to be making a habit of answering my own questions. Not sure if that's a good thing or not.
What I ended up doing was adding an "Upload Multiple Files" button to the toolbar which pointed to a custom ASPX page in the _layouts folder. This page displayed the ActiveX component used by a Document Library and the "post to" URL for it was the ASPX page itself. When posted to it looked for files uploaded and attached them all to the List Item referenced via URL parameters passed to it from the toolbar button.
It's discussed here:
http://weblogs.asp.net/nathanyorke/archive/2007/12/05/uploading-multiple-files-via-the-web.aspx
If I get round to blogging and fuller explanation on my own site I'll try and remember to post a link back here.
Jake