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How do I add my input excel file as an attachment in the email function?

esabay
8 - Asteroid

Really apologize for the not-so-clean workflow attached but how do I attach the xlsx file named "query 1 data" as an attachment in the email? Thank you for the help!

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Prometheus
12 - Quasar

@esabay On the Email tool configuration window, scroll down to Attachments: and click on Add. You can add an attachment from a field or you can specify which file you want to attach.

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esabay
8 - Asteroid

Yes thank you! But when I publish this workflow into a library, I just want to upload the input excel file in the alteryx gallery and get an output with the input excel file already attached. Will your solution work? Apologies for the newbie questions

Prometheus
12 - Quasar

@esabay You can't publish the Excel to the Gallery, but you if you can save it to a shared drive that the Server can access, it will get it from there and attach it to your email. Remember that when using the Email tool, it'll send an email for every record you send to it. Your workflow sends 6 records to the Email tool, so you're going to get 6 duplicate emails.

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