Emailing an attachment
The "Email a file attachment" step in Parabola sends an email with a file attachment directly from Parabola. It automatically generates and attaches the file based on your Flow data, helping you automate file delivery and eliminate manual email tasks.
Email a file attachment
The Email a file attachment step gives you the ability to send an email to a list of recipients with a custom message and an attached file (CSV or Excel) of your transformed data.
Setup
After connecting your flow to this destination step, enter up to ten email addresses in Email Recipients section. Enter what you'd like the email subject line to be in the Email Subject section. Enter your custom message in the Email Body section. Please note that all of these fields are required.
You can use merge tags {} to include dynamic values in any field (recipients, subject, body, file name, reply to). Those work as follows:
- Wrap the column name that you want to reference in tags - in the example below, that could be "{Name}"
- The email will then take the first row from that column, from the first input connected
- The step can filter out any columns used as merge columns. You can find this option under Advanced Settings
In the "Advanced Settings" dropdown, enter the email address you wish for recipients to reply to. This will ensure that any replies to these emails will go to the right place.
The step can accept multiple input arrows of data if it is set to generate an Excel file. Each input will be a new tab within the generated file, and each tab must be given a unique name.
Security
The files you send through this step are stored by Parabola. We store the data as a convenience, so that the next time you open the flow, the data is still loaded into it. Your data is stored securely in an Amazon S3 Bucket, and all connections are established over SSL and encrypted.
Limitations
- Emails sent through this step must be 30MB or smaller.
- An email is not sent if there are zeros rows of input data to send.
- This is different from the "Generate CSV file" or "Generate Excel file" steps, which create a downloadable file and email a link (not an attachment) to the Flow owner. Files from the "Generate" steps can also be accessed in the Flow's Run History, while the "Email a file attachment" step is designed to deliver attached files to any email address you specify.
Pull PDF Attachments from Inbound Email
The Pull from inbound email step can pull in data from a number of filetypes, including attached PDF files. Once configured, Parabola can be set to parse PDFs anytime the relevant email receives a PDF file.
