{"id":8920,"date":"2022-09-02T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/how-to-use-actionable-messages-in-outlook-with-power-automate\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:48:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:48:28","slug":"how-to-use-actionable-messages-in-outlook-with-power-automate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/how-to-use-actionable-messages-in-outlook-with-power-automate\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use Actionable Messages in Outlook with Power Automate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Use case<\/h2>\n<p>Power Automate makes it easy to send actionable messages to Microsoft Teams, but did you know it is possible to send an actionable message &#8212; and get a response &#8212; from a Power Automate flow in an email from a user account?<\/p>\n<p>However, there is some additional setup required &#8212; if you don&#8217;t follow these steps then the moment you change the sender on the email to Send As an O365 Group for the email to come from then the email will be blank. 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Read more here about how to set up this powerful scenario.<\/p>\n<h2>How does it work?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Step #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go to:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/outlook.office.com\/connectors\/oam\/publish\/\">https:\/\/outlook.office.com\/connectors\/oam\/publish\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There you will need to add the following information<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The name of the provider<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sender email address<\/strong>: Add the emails that you are going to use to send the actionable messages (Include the email group if you want to use a group)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8921 size-full\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture1-1.png\" width=\"1222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture1-1.webp 1222w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture1-1-300x161.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture1-1-1024x551.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture1-1-768x413.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1222px) 100vw, 1222px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Target URLs<\/strong>: On this part, you need to create a flow like this and copy the URL that is generated after save the flow and paste it into the Target URLs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8937 size-full\" height=\"932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/url.jpg\" width=\"1130\"\/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scope of submission<\/strong>: Select Organization<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the email of the person that is going to approve it. Normally, the Exchange Administrator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8923 size-full\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture3-1.png\" width=\"1430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture3-1.webp 1430w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture3-1-300x80.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture3-1-1024x272.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture3-1-768x204.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1430px) 100vw, 1430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now you can save the form and wait for the approval from your administrator.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, in your flow that sends the actionable message you&#8217;re going to create the JSON Payload. 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