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Best practice to access email attachments from Outlook for scheduled workflow on Server?

khu
8 - Asteroid

Hi, Community,

 

I have several workflows which are scheduled and using the email attachments from outlook everyday morning,

 

The manual process would be download attachements from email, save to folder, and use directory tool to access those excel files. 

 

For desktop, we can write Python scripts to download attachment from outlook and save to our local drive,

 

But for Alteryx server runing on the cloud, seems this way don't work,

because server runing on virtual machine and load balancer which have several intances runing behind,

 

Please share any experience if you have similar use case, like using alteryx server on the cloud, scheduled workflow needs excel from outlook email, how do you automate this part?

 

Thanks

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StephenR
Alteryx
Alteryx

Hi Khu,

 

Have you seen either of these articles? They may give you what you need.

 

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Knowledge-Base/Reading-Outlook-Emails-and-Email-attachments...

 

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works-Blog/Outlook-Input-tool-Created-with-the-Alteryx-SDK/b...

Regards,
Stephen Ruhl
Principal Customer Support Engineer