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Need Help!! - Email Notification using Data Alerts and MS Flow

dipankar — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 04:58:49 GMT

Hello All.

Bascially, I have a report in which I am showing list of the employees who received bonus and their details.
So, I have this requirement where I have to send email notifications to the all employees who received bonus.

For achieving this, I have a card on report which shows count of employees who received bonus and basically pinned this card to a dasboard and created a data alert on condition (employees with bonus > 0). Then I used Microsoft flow and created a flow where when a data driven alert is triggerd then I will have an action to send mail to the employees with bonus.

The part where I am stuck is how to make the email recipients dynamic i.e. to be able to send mails to only those users who received bonus, say for the next quarter when again this alert is triggered the mails are only sent to user who received bonus in that quarter.

Please, suggest if we can somehow pass dynamic list of employees in MS Flow or if there is some workaround for achieving this.

Re: Need Help!! - Email Notification using Data Alerts and MS Flow

Eric_Zhang — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 02:46:17 GMT

@dipankar wrote:

Hello All.

Bascially, I have a report in which I am showing list of the employees who received bonus and their details.
So, I have this requirement where I have to send email notifications to the all employees who received bonus.

For achieving this, I have a card on report which shows count of employees who received bonus and basically pinned this card to a dasboard and created a data alert on condition (employees with bonus > 0). Then I used Microsoft flow and created a flow where when a data driven alert is triggerd then I will have an action to send mail to the employees with bonus.

The part where I am stuck is how to make the email recipients dynamic i.e. to be able to send mails to only those users who received bonus, say for the next quarter when again this alert is triggered the mails are only sent to user who received bonus in that quarter.

Please, suggest if we can somehow pass dynamic list of employees in MS Flow or if there is some workaround for achieving this.

@dipankar

The alert message doesn't contain the correlated mail recipients. As far as I know, it only contains the acutal count of employees. So in your case, the workaround may be

The alert from Power BI triggers your Flow.
Flow then queries the correlated mail recipients from the original datasource and send to recipients accordingly.

As to further advice, I'd suggest you post in the dedicated Flow forum.

Re: Need Help!! - Email Notification using Data Alerts and MS Flow

MiaZhao — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 02:05:01 GMT

Hi @dipankar,

I recently encountered a similar issue sending emails via FLOW based on the dynamic address in power bi. Can you tell me your solution please?

Thanks.