From the Microsoft Power Platform blogs: Save embedded images; Catalog; Azure Resource Manager; Data activator

In this week’s Power Platform blog roundup:

• How to save embedded images in email using Power Automate Desktop
• Enable reusability and maintain best practices with the catalog in Microsoft Power Platform
• Request to Azure Resource Manager failed with error in the Power Pages flows
• Automate with ease: triggering Power Automate flows with data activator

How to save embedded images in email using Power Automate desktop

Writing on the Microsoft Power Automate Community Blog, Vishnu Reddy stated that saving embedded images from emails is important for many business tasks, but it can be challenging in Power Automate Desktop, especially when images are embedded rather than attached. 

As such, he noted that you might have to work with the HTML content of the email to extract these images. Reddy explained that to do this, you can use the “extract HTML element attribute” action to get the src attribute of the image. 

Then, he wrote, you find the content ID (CID) of the embedded images in the email body and convert the CID into an image by extracting the base64 content or downloading it using external scripts or APIs if needed. Reddy stated that his approach provides an automated solution for saving images. However, he pointed out that if the src attribute isn’t embedded or can’t be found, this method won’t work. To address this issue, Reddy stated that he’s come up with a simpler solution.

In his blog post, Reddy guides you step-by-step on how to extract and save embedded images from an email using Power Automate Desktop.

Enable reusability and maintain best practices with the catalog in Microsoft Power Platform

On the Microsoft Power Platform blog, Derek Kwan wrote that when building solutions in Power Apps and Power Automate, organizations often have unique needs, such as custom data mappings, complex flows, and triggers, or embedding components with custom logic.