Email save attachments - Get attachment name

Hi @ufuksavas,

I believe we cannot do with AA directly; we can only achieve this when we download the attachment and check for filename.

You can use the VB Script to do this. please refer below code which will work with default Outlook application. It will check for unread emails with attachments and gets the attachment name into variable. last it change the email status to read.

Code Snippet is below:

VB Script:

Function FetchEmailAttachName()

' Create an instance of Outlook application
Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

' Get the MAPI namespace
Set objNamespace = objOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")

' Get the Inbox folder
Set objInbox = objNamespace.GetDefaultFolder(6) ' 6 represents the Inbox folder

' Constant for MailItem type
Const olMailItem = 0

' Loop through unread emails in the Inbox
For Each objItem In objInbox.Items
    ' Check if the item is a MailItem
    If TypeName(objItem) = "MailItem" Then
        Set objMail = objItem
        If objMail.UnRead = True Then
            ' Check if the email has attachments
            If objMail.Attachments.Count > 0 Then
                ' Loop through each attachment and display its name
                For Each objAttachment In objMail.Attachments
                    'Msgbox("Attachment Name: " & objAttachment.FileName)
                    FetchEmailAttachName = objAttachment.FileName
                Next
            Else
                'Msgbox("No attachments found in unread email.")
                FetchEmailAttachName = "No attachments found in unread email"
            End If
            
            ' Mark the email as read (optional)
            objMail.UnRead = False
            objMail.Save
        End If
    End If
Next

' Release the objects
Set objAttachment = Nothing
Set objMail = Nothing
Set objItem = Nothing
Set objInbox = Nothing
Set objNamespace = Nothing
Set objOutlook = Nothing

End Function

Hope it will help. Please let me know.

Thanks,

Hemantha Pindra

As far as I know there is no specific action for your requirement, but as a way around what you can do is, if you are downloading the attachments you will be using a specific subject / sender, in that case you can save the attachment in a specific folder and post that you can use loop for file in a folder and from that you can use the name and delete which are not required.

The way the Email action works it returns a list of emails from the properties of the Connect action. When looping through the list, the command opens the email, downloads ALL attachments to a folder. Within the loop you’d want to process the downloaded files, copying them  to a new folder and deleting the files so the folder is empty for the next email. You can grab the name from the Loop for everyfile in a folder with the attributes “name” and “extension”.

The Automation 360 package has “Save all attachments” and “Save attachments” 

See this Documentation article: https://docs.automationanywhere.com/bundle/enterprise-v2019/page/enterprise-cloud/topics/aae-client/bot-creator/commands/cloud-email-automation-command.html

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