In Power Automate, how to get data from a .csv email attachment and format it for display? - json

1st time posting a question...
I have a simple task in Flow - I need to get data from a .csv email attachment, format it in an html table, and then send it in another email. I've seen several paid connectors and some other methods to "parse" the .csv data to create a JSON array - is the the best solution?
Trigger is "when an email is received."
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Output is "send an email"
Any help is much appreciated!


You could use Encodian's Parse CSV connector, it's free, but you need to create a free account with them.
The one thing I've noticed is that you might need to place the CSV Data value that it produces into an expression with a json() function to ensure that it is properly read. This is because the Flow HTML Table action detected the result from my test as a string, despite encodian stating it was JSON.
json(outputs('Parse_CSV')?['body/csvData'])
That is how it would look if you've changed none of the names of any of the actions.
As you say, there are many CSV connectors out there, the ones that mention JSON are simply formatting the result in to something that Flow can understand and work with in some ease.
Here is my flow, obviously yours will have the incoming email as the result, not the button.

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But usually you find a JSON library to be installed in your IDE.
With it you extract any field from the JSON file

Autodesk design automation Revit , text file as input

The Revit API I developed, take a text file as input.
the text file looks like as below......
1.002, 20,502, 21.706
12.502, 5,502, 7.706
21.002, 15,502, 14.706
.....................
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I am basically reading the text data as input.
Now if I want to convert the same API as Design automation API, I guess I will not be able to use "text file" as input.
My question is, what should be file type of input file, if it is consisted of 3d point coordinates as described above.
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If there is any example code, will be a big help.
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Thank you for your query.
The slightly more complex question is how to generate multiple output files.
That is answered by the article
on How to generate dynamic number of output with Design Automation for Revit V3.
In passing, it also mentions multiple input files, saying:
"... For the zipped input file, it's well documented at https://forge.autodesk.com/en/docs/design-automation/v3/tutorials/revit/step6-post-workitem/, but for the output zipped result, it's not so clear..."
Trying to follow that link, I note that it is out of date.
The updated link is:
https://forge.autodesk.com/en/docs/design-automation/v3/tutorials/revit/step7-post-workitem/
Looking at the additional notes on input arguments, I see the instructions on how to pass JSON input data directly in the workitem itself.
I would assume that you can also use a different prefix instead of data:application/json such as data:application/text to pass in the data in its current form.
Please try that out and let us know how it works for you.
Alternatively, you can just stay on the safe side and convert your text data to JSON format.
There are innumerable ways of doing so.
The most minimalistic and simple would look like this:
[1.002, 20,502, 21.706,
12.502, 5,502, 7.706,
21.002, 15,502, 14.706,
...]
That represents on single array of doubles.
A slightly more structured approach might be to pass in an array of triples of doubles like this:
[[1.002, 20,502, 21.706],
[12.502, 5,502, 7.706],
[21.002, 15,502, 14.706],
...]
As you see, it is not hard.
I hope this helps.

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