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Software ==>	Power Automate (21 exercises)
Topic ==>	Writing basic flows (5 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	Power Automate and PAD training

Use an Outlook trigger to capture summary data for any email when flagged

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Go to Outlook 365 and hover over any email:

You can click on the flag icon to flag the email - but don't do this just yet. Your task is to write a flow triggered by this!

Create a flow called Exercise NN - store information for flagged email in Power Automate which will create a text file whenever someone flags an email as shown above:

This is the trigger you should use to begin your flow.

Within your flow, use a Compose action to capture some useful information about the email:

We'll capture who this email was sent from and to, and what the subject was (you could add the email body in, but it tends not to be very easy to read outside an email client).

Note that when you reference one of the fields from your trigger Power Automate will automatically add a For Each loop. This is presumably because you can flag multiple emails in one go, allowing your triggered flow to then loop over these - for the moment the best thing to do with your loop is to pretend it's not there, since you know that you will only ever flag one email at a time.

Now add an action to write the output from this Compose action to a text file in OneDrive: