To get started with sending emails from powerapps the easiest option is to look at an existing screen template that has been provided for us for that you will head over to new.
Screen and select email upon selection it will create a new screen based on the email screen template.
This screen has options to plug in the to property for the email you can search for people or add email addresses you can define the subject and the body of the email.
The moment you add the screen it automatically creates a connection to office 365 outlook and this screen has the send email icon on select of which.
Will recommend you to go ahead and use the v2 function as part of the send email v2 function we need to specify the following required parameters.
The two property this is a string of email addresses if you are adding multiple email addresses they need to be semicolon separated then we have the subject of the email.
Then we have the body of the email which can be in rich text format as well and then we have additional properties that we can set for example the importance of the email the sensitivity.
Of the email cc bcc and a lot more let's preview the app and test this out in the two i will search for an account from my active directory the people picker option works.
Additionally i can also plug in email addresses and click on the plus icon then i can define the subject of my email and then the body of the email.
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Once i'm done with this i will click on
Send this will go ahead and send an email to the recipient which in this case is reza here is the subject of the email and the.Body of the email there are additional properties that we can set related to the email apart from the importance we can add attachments to the email.
We can define the cc this once again will be email addresses semicolon separated we can define bcc email address semicolon separated.
The sensitivity of the email and then the from or the send as property this is the email address to send mail from this requires send as or send on.
Behalf of permission for that mailbox the body of the email can be in rich text format the template adds a multi-line text control so let's replace this with a.
Rich text control we'll head over to insert text and pick the rich text editor experience i will reorder this control and send it.
To the back and i will rename this control to rte body the default property i will set it as empty and for the send email action.
Where i was using the previous multi-line text box i will replace that with the rich text editor controls html text property and i will also ensure that i reset the.
Rich text editor control after the email is sent let's try this out i'll enter the email and subject and in the rich text editor control i.
Have all the rich text features that is
Available as part of the rte editor in powerapps once i add my mail body i can go ahead and click send.Here is the email that i have received the body of the email is in rich text format i even added a link to the outlook connector documentation.
If i select that it will lead me to the connected documentation page which has all the information of that send email v2 action let's try and add.
An image in the body of the email to do that i will insert from the media controls add picture this control allows us to upload an.
Image directly in powerapps for the send email action when i was sending the body as html text here i will additionally append simple html i will add.
An image tag where the source i will get directly from that image control important to note here i need the base64 encoded version.
Of that image so i can leverage the json function and power apps point to that image controls image property.
And then include the json format which is json format dot include binary data to get the base64 encoded version let's try this out i will upload an image.
And i will click on send here is the email that includes that image in the body of the mail now this embedded image as part of the body of the mail can also be the current.
User's profile image and for that once again simple html using the image tag the source here is user.image.
There is also an image control in powerapps i've added that on the screen in my app i have added an image and that image is what i will be.
Referencing in that image control to add that image control as well to the body of the email once again simple image tag and the same json function pointing to that image.
Controls image property and then formatting the json to include binary data let's try this out i will go ahead and send the email.
Here's the email now that includes all of those images coming from the ad picture control the user's profile image and the image held in that image control we can also embed in the body of the.
Email the information held in the pen input control in powerapps the pen input control allows us to draw sketches or add signatures this control as well exposes.
A property called image and we can leverage that same concept of using the json function pointing to the pen input controls image property and then formatting it to include binary.
Data let's try this out here i am adding my signature and i'll click send the email that i receive also includes.
That signature from the pan input control now all of these images that i embedded in the body of the email.
They can also be added as attachments to the email to do that i will leverage the attachments property this expects tabular data.
Which needs two key parameters one is the name of the attachment and then it requires the content bytes.
Of that image and this i can directly get by leveraging the image controls image property i will go ahead and format the text.
Next let's try and include the pen input control information as an attachment once again same concept i need the name and the content bytes.
Let's try this out i will go ahead and send the email this time when i receive the email it includes the images as attachments let's try and make the send email.
Property dynamic by retrieving data from a data source here i have a sharepoint list that tracks expense reports and one of the properties here is.
Expense type based upon the expense type selection from the user the approvers are dynamically assigned let's go ahead and create a very simple.
Power app directly from the sharepoint list give it a name and this will create a standard three screen powerapp connected to that sharepoint list.
To send the email i will head over to new screen and click blank here i will add my header that states send email.
I've added a text box control to allow the user to enter the subject of the email and now i have entered a rich text editor control that will allow the user.
To enter rich text for the body of the email and finally i'm adding a button called send email so that when the user clicks on this we can send the email.