Does BluePrism have the capability of saving email attachments to a shared folder?

[ShirleyElimanco]

Dear BluePrism,

Greetings! I just finished BluePrism Foundation training and wondering if BluePrism has the capability to save attachments from MS Outlook then save them in a shared folder? If yes, any insights on how will this be possible are highly appreciated.

To explain the steps further, here are the detailed steps:

1. Open MS Outlook by clicking the icon.
2. Search for the seven emails that came from the specified user such as psa-hr@company.com and download the attachments.
3. Save it to a shared folder such as \\servername\foldername.

Kind regards.

[devneetmohanty07]

Hi Shirley,

You can use the 'MS Outlook' VBO for your use case. To look for a specific email with a filter criteria, there are actions called 'Get Received Items (Basic)', 'Get Received Items (Advanced)' or 'Get Received Items (Expert)', you can use any one of these. They will return you a collection with all the information for those emails like Entry ID, Body, Subject, Received Date, Sent Date etc.

Once you loop within that collection, you can use the 'Save Email As File' action where you need to provide the file path and the file name (without any extension) where the email needs to be saved. You need to pass the Entry ID for each mail as well in that action so that it can identify which mail to save.

For mode details related to this and to download the asset, visit the Blue Prism Digital Exchange: MS Outlook - VBO

Let us know if this helps you out and please mark the answer as the 'Best Answer' if it resolves your query so that others can track the answer easily 🙂

[ShirleyElimanco]

Hi Devneet,
Thank you for your feedback. This is much appreciated. I'll try this from my end.