Good morning
I'm quite new to MS Flow and I came across an issue that I just can't find a solution for. I created a flow for an approval App in PowerApps and added a Link to the item on the email that is received by the person that needs to approve it. The problem is that the link to the item is not clickable in the Outlook 2016 client. It is in the OWA though, so there must be a setting to fix this (I hope).
Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?
MS Flow Workflow
Outlook Client
If you meant by how to create a link with an href the add the below code in body of your email.
Click Here for details
Click the adavanced options from Send email flow and set 'Is HTML' property value to true.
For more information, please refer to these links:
How to insert a "Clck Here" in an email?
How do I get flow to stop encoding the ampersand in the href in my anchor tag?
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I have a problem with creating a script that creates/forwards an email in outlook to a constant recipiant.
the plan was to select keywords from checkboxes in its form. by pressing an inplemented button, the add-in should forward the opened email with a new subject from the checked checkboxes.
since i am very new to webdesign and js i would like to know if the idea could be realized without further ado. i have already browsed several forums and found out that sending email requires a web server and email client, which is out of the question due to the dynamic use and data security. also
I have already created the form of the add in. since this has no functions yet, i save posting a code/progress.
Any feedback?
OfficeJS doesn't provide anything for moving/forwarding items in Outlook. The web add-in is working under the currently selected item only. But you may consider using EWS or Graph API for implementing the required functionality.
I'm working on an Outlook Add-in, using office.js, where users can send secure emails using backend service.
In compose mode, when the user sends the email, using the add-in of course, the add-in will then move the message to "Sent Items" folder using the Outlook API /message/{id}/move and everything goes OK with the exception that the message in question still being marked as "Draft" by Outlook which is really annoying and does confuse the user who just sent the email by telling him that "this message hasn't been sent"
I searched through the API to see if there is a way to mark an email as "SENT" in order to prevent Outlook from showing this RED hint but with no luck so far!
So, My Question Is: Is there any way to overcome this misleading msg by marking the email as it was sent by Outlook?
Thanks in advance.
Finally, I was able to achieve a perfect solution for this challenge.
Based on:
#BrianClink's comment
This answer (Which uses Graph API but Outlook REST API): Microsoft Graph API mail office 365: Is any option create inbox message NOT as Draft?
The approach/steps I followed to mark a mailItem as "SENT" (and not shown as 'draft') and put it in "SentItems" Folder are as follow:
First, Save the mailItem as "draft" using Office.context.mailbox.item.currentMail.saveAsync then retrieve its ID
Clone this draft mailItem properties eg: 'Sender', 'Subject', 'Body', 'ToRecipients'..etc so you get an exact copy of it.
With the newly cloned mailItem, add '[SingleValueExtendedProperties]' property with this value :
[
{
PropertyId: 'Integer 0x0E07',
Value: '1'
}
];
Serialize the new item as JSON and POST it to "sentitems" folder as follows:
xhr.open('POST', restHost + '/v2.0/me/MailFolders/sentitems/messages/');
xhr.send(clonedEmailJson);
On success, with xhr.status=201 [created], Remove the draft mailitem using a [DELETE] request
And you will end up having a new mail item created in your "sentItems" folder which appears as it was sent by Outlook :)
This was a very helpful solution to me because my users are using my add-in to send secure emails (using 3rd party API) and NOT Outlook, So, I wanted them to have the same UX/feeling as when they use Outlook.
Note:
Although the solution worked for me perfectly, it came with a price!
On slow internet connections or in case emails containing large attachments, the process can be remarkably slow, because the addin will first save the draft to the remote Exchange Server, get its ID, then duplicate it and send it again to the server, then remove the draft-ed one.
I am new to outlook office-js, and I am trying to get a selected email from a button click and forward the email. I am trying to find an example of how to get the selected email. I have done COM add-ins, and I guess I am looking for an explorer object. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tom
For forwarding an item, you can use the Office.context.mailbox.item.itemId API to get the item ID and using REST make an API call. There is a concept page on calling REST APIs from an outlook add-in.
I am creating an addin for Outlook.
I want to check some text on sending, but im not sure how to reference it
The text is in the image below and says “Attachment will be sent using...”
If the text equals the text displayed, i want to do something.
Thanks for any advice.
The Outlook object model doesn't provide anything for reading mail tips. But you may consider using EWS for getting mail tips. See Using MailTips in EWS to get the OOF (Out of Office) Status of users with C# and Powershell for the sample code.
FYI MailTips are informative messages displayed to users in the infobar in Outlook Web App and Outlook 2010/2013/2016 when a user does any of the following while composing an e-mail message:
Add a recipient
Add an attachment
Reply or Reply all
Open a message from the Drafts folder that's already addressed to recipients
To configure MailTips for mailboxes, external contacts, and distribution groups, in the Exchange Control Panel, select the mailbox, external contact, or distribution group, click Details, and then in the MailTip section, create the MailTip.
To configure MailTips for mail users and dynamic distribution groups, in Windows PowerShell, use the MailTip parameter on the Set-MailUser and Set-DynamicDistributionGroup cmdlets.
Regardless of whether you use the Exchange Control Panel or Windows PowerShell, two things always happen when you add a MailTip to a recipient:
HTML tags are automatically added to the text. For example, if you enter the following text: This mailbox is not monitored. The MailTip automatically becomes the following: <html><body>This mailbox is not monitored.</body></html>
The text is automatically added to the MailTipTranslations property as the default value. If you modify the MailTip text, the default value is automatically updated in the MailTipTranslations property.
Read more about that in the Configure MailTips article.
I want to create a small survey in an email message. The user are to respond using free form text boxes, check boxes , or pre-defined drop downlist . I see applications that claim to be able to do that. my needs are not that elaborate. Just a few questions that need to be asked
In Outlook 2007 there is functionality to create polls (Voting) which may satisfy your needs:
This feature requires you to use a Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, Exchange Server 2003, or Exchange Server 2007 account.
A demonstration is provided here.
You can simply include this as a normal HTML form in a mime part. See http://abiglime.com/webmaster/articles/cgi/010698.htm for how to do that.
However, many email clients will not display this. For example, in Thunderbird, there are settings for displaying message: "Original HTML", "Simple HTML", "Plain text". It will only display a form if it is set to "Original HTML".
Additionally, you may get security warnings from some email clients when trying to do the actual post from your email message over to the web site (I'm not sure about that as I've never tried).
I can see the appeal of making a survey easy to use in an email, but you should at least provide alternate links to access the survey on a website for users that can't see the form. And be sure to test this using a wide variety of email clients, eg: Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express, Gmail, Yahoo, MSN/Hotmail,...
Cant you use HTML to make it work?
You can create a custom form within outlook that contains the controls you want. Use that form when creating a new email message. That will work.