Using Flow Designer, add attachment to Send Email Action

[Daniel O_Connor]

Hi all,

I've created a Custom App using Studio, whereby we will receive Weather Warnings from a National Weather provider, and then forward this e-mail onto relevant parties. 

I created an extension of TASK so we can have a record of these weather alerts. The e-mail that we will receive, will contain a PDF attachment, that is the details of the warning.

Through my inbound action, I'm creating a record on my new table, where the PDF will be attached to the ticket.

Through Flow (new module, not legacy workflow) I've been able to spin my flow up pretty quickly. However I see no option to include the attachment from the record, onto the e-mail I'm sending out.

Any ideas how I can accomplish this?

• With Send Email action in Flow Designer, have the attachment from the record included in the generated email 

[Daniel O_Connor]

Hi Brian,

Yeah this is working for a while now in my instance. Goran does a series of videos and he posted one above. Followed his steps and now I have attachments generating in the outbound email notification.

It's brilliant, and now in use in a number of apps. 

[Daniel O_Connor]

Hey,

I'd imagine it's the same steps I did. Follow the steps Goran has in his video. 

So I'd imagine in your Flow for when the Request item is generated, you need to add in an email step to fire out a mail with the attachments present on the submission. 

[Benjamin Nuttin]

I tried your approach, but the email ends up getting sent before the Copy Attachment action has a chance to run. How do you avoid such race conditions? Thanks!

[Goran WitchDoc]

Hmm..

In that case, I guess you would need some workaround where you perhaps first put it in the ignore mailbox, and when the attachment has been copied, you can move it over to the outbox. Mostly this is controlled through the type field.

Does that make sense?

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[Benjamin Nuttin]

Hi Goran, I'm not actually terribly clear on how to do that - the Send Email step in Flow Designer doesn't have options in terms of outbox/type, and the Create Record actions don't let me select sys_email... Though even if I could create the sys_email record, I presume I need the API to calculate the headers and so on.