SEND EMAIL FROM POWERAPPS WITHOUT POWER AUTOMATE

Sending an email is the official means of communication in organizations. Some of these emails are repetitive tasks, for example, notification to supervisors when an action is completed. This fits into the category of tasks that should be automated.

The article explains how to send email notifications all within PowerApps as against the popular road map of using power automate.

Table Of Contents:

Connect to office 365 outlook connector

Add a button

Send a simple mail

Send a mail to multiple recipients

Send mail with importance, carbon copy and blind carbon copy

Send a mail with an attachment

Send a mail with a hyperlink and HTML body

Connect to office 365 outlook connector

Open Power Apps Studio, navigate to the data tab on the left navigation menu and add the office 365 Outlook Connector.

Add button to trigger mail

Insert a button to serve as a trigger to send the email

Send a simple mail

Write this code on the OnSelect property of the button to send a simple mail

Send a mail to multiple recipients

Write this code on the OnSelect property of the button to send a mail to multiple recipients. Simply separate each mail with a semicolon.

Send a mail with importance, carbon copy and blind carbon copy

Write this code on the OnSelect property of the button to send a mail with a carbon copy (Cc), blind carbon copy (Bcc) and importance.

Note: Importance has three categories: high, normal and low

Send a mail with an attachment

Write this code on the OnSelect property of the button to send a mail with an attachment. The attachment expects a table. We need to provide the name and contentbyte.

Send a mail with a hyperlink and HTML body

Write this code on the OnSelect property of the button to send a mail with a hyperlink in the HTML body.