I am creating an RPA in BluePrism in which bot has to download an attachment(Excel file) from outlook email. I am using Mapiex
How to save the attachments from E-Mail using Mapiex in BluePrism?
In the action to read email, you have a parameter named 'Attachment Directory':
All the email attachments will be there after Get Mail gets executed. Sometimes though, you may have extra files, usually images from the email, maybe signatures and such. So, you can use the action Get Files from the default object Utility - File Management and use a filter for .xlsx and .xls files to get the path and names of the files you need:
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I have a simple two stage flow (below) that I am using. It triggers on a email with a file attachment (which is in CSV format) and then saves it to a SharePoint Document folder. All works well except that it is also putting the mime headers at the top of the CSV file. How can I stop it from doing that. See screen shot of output and of flow: ( For File Content I am using Attachments Content)
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Can you add a condition to check if the attachment is actually a .csv file? At the moment it looks like it is concatenating a couple of attachments into one file.
Try a setup like below:
The Condition action checks if the Attachment Name property ends with .csv
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.
I have created an embedded pdf with the insert> object > create from file> browse > display as icon function in excel.
I would like to then use the embedded pdf as an attachment for my outlook email using vba code. I have tried to use the .Attachment.Add code but it seems to fail to detech an embedded object.
Could anyone advise a correct code? Thanks!
Get the file from the source?
I don't understand why you would need to embed the.PDF object in the workbook, if you're going to be emailing it separately anyhow...
Regardless, you could just grab the actual/original .PDF to attach a copy to the email, directly from the same location from where it was embedded. (If it's not there, what happened to it?)
Another option:
As soon as you right-click the embedded object, Excel 2016 "gets ready" for you to open it by extracting it to your local temp folder. (I'm unsure whether this applies to previous versions.)
Therefore, you could programmatically right-click the embedded icon, and then check the temp folder located at the path that you'll find stored in Environ("temp"). One or more copies of your file will be located there (and it should be the 'newest' PDF).
Yet another option:
Excel's XLSM file is simply a compressed ZIP file, if you change the extension. You could programmatically make a copy of the file, changing it's extension to .ZIP.
Embedded object are stored as .BIN files within the ZIP file in the xl\embeddings\ folder. It would have to be extracted and then renamed back to a PDF. Note that this method is a little flakey and won't work with all PDF's.
More Information:
VBA Express : Save embedded PDF file as a separate PDf file
How-to-Geek : How to Extract Images, Text, and Embedded Files from Office Documents
I have a ruby application that allows me to select documents for emailing. The app creates a batch file and downloads it. Clicking on the .bat file launches a notes email window with the attachments populated. When I try this it works fine for PDF, Jpg, and POTX files . However, doc, docx xls and xls give me an error of 'file does not exist'.
the string I am passing via a bat file looks like
"C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.exe"
"Mailto:?Attach=\wwwroot\apps\technical_library\public\images\18\Presentation_template.potx?Attach=\wwwroot\apps\technical_library\public\images\31\FAX.doc?Attach=\wwwroot\apps\technical_library\public\images\32\FAX.docx"
If I try to send a bunch of images and pdfs, it creates the email with no problem.
I'm assuming that lotus is blocking the attachments because of 'active content'. How do I get lotus to accept the command line string with doc/xls attachments. ?
I am trying to automatically download attachments that come with e-mails, using VBA in excel 2007
Incoming mails will be in the same outlook folder (call it "Inventory"). I will define a rule in outlook that will move them there once I get them, so that part is already dealt with.
These incoming mails will all have the same subject(call it "Inventory update"). This is also dealth with.
What I need to do is,
Download the attachments in the mails mentioned above, to a certain folder(call it "C:\Guncelleme Dosyalari")
I will not rename the attachments before I save them.
There will be no other mails in the folder that update mails will arrive. Therefore swiping through all the mails in the folder without seeking the correct subject line is also doable.
Thanks in advance.
Once you open the message (you can use MAPIFolder.Items collection for that), loop through all attachments in the MailItem.Attachments collection and call Attachment.SaveAsFile