Step-by-Step Guide: How to Use Power Automate to Create and Send Emails with Attachments in Dynamics 365/Dataverse

Fredrik Engseth
5 min readDec 10, 2022
Image of the action in Power Automate that creates an email attachment.

Introduction

In this post, we look at how to use Power Automate to create and send emails with attachments in Dynamics 365/Dataverse. When working with Dynamics 365 or Dataverse, one of the key advantages is tracking emails, and if you use another email connector like Outlook, you cannot do this. This post will show how to create an email, add an attachment and send an email so that it’s tracked inside Dynamics 365/Dataverse.

Table of Content

  • How to Create and Send Emails with Attachments Using Power Automate
  • How it Looks When Sending Email With Dataverse
  • Conclusion

Prerequisites

  • Familiar with Dataverse
  • Familiar with Dynamics 365
  • Familiar with Power Automate
  • An environment and a queue/system user that is configured for sending emails

How to Create and Send Emails with Attachments Using Power Automate

In this example, we use the essence of the flow from the Power App Award Generator blog post, but instead…

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Fredrik Engseth

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