How to filter messages in Get outlook mail messages

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Siva Senthil
May 10, 2016 12:42 ANSWERED
I can retrieve messages using the activity “Get outlook mail messages”. However, I do not understand how to use the Filter property of the activity. What is the syntax of the VB Expression to use there?

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Robert Dima June 08, 2016 13:26
Hello,

In the “Filter” property of the “Get outlook mail message” activity you need to use a syntax.

Here is a link where you can find all the syntaxes available for this property.

Mainly the Jet Syntax of Outlook query.

Hope this helped.

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Momoo Dieng October 03, 2016 15:38
Hello,

i’m working with UiPath and i want to Filter emails with Get outlook mail message. I already took a look here : Chapter 11: Searching Outlook Data | Microsoft Learn -

but i can’t find the right syntax. Can someone help me to get an example of filter.

For example: i want to get all emails which the subject contains the string “Incident”.

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Udaykumar Gaikwad Today at 11:59
Hi,

You can use Following syntax for filter in Filter Property.

“[subject]=‘Uipath demo’”

“[From]=‘Uipath Helpdesk’”.

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Thanks. Can you give me a hint on how to access the mail i got from the filter.
If I filter the mail by subject and I have to assign ex. the sender to a variable.

What is the exact syntax for the VB expression in the assign element in uipath ?

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Hi you two @vvaidya and @aksh1yadav are the best, so thought to ask you directly.

I wants retrive the mail from the x user .
how to do that.?
I tried with get outlook mail activity “filter option”
but filter is not working or i may be wrong while initializing.
ex:
“[From]=‘Uipath Helpdesk’”
please help me to put the condition.

thanks in advance.

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Your filter works fine for me (can you double check the name)

I think the From Name is : UiPath Help Desk based on the emails I got from them.(if that’s the user you want to filter)

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hello,

can you tell me how to retrieve mail according to date using filter properties of “Get Outlook Message”

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simple just initialize [received]:“” in filter property.
For more customization on date parameter,
please go through the below link as mentioned by @UiRobot

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can you please elaborate the syntax for filtering current date as I am trying to filter today’s date but not getting it.

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Hi. Is it possible to put more than one filter? Meaning can I filter both [subject] and [from]?

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Hi
I am facing a similar problem. I would like to filter my get oulook email activity by subjects. Using the filter “[subject]=‘Request*’” does not work.
I also tried the for each and if activity combination (see screenshot).

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Thanks a lot for your help.

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Contains should not have an asterisk.
Either use item.Subject.Contains("Request") or item.Subject Like "Request*"

More on Like operator:

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Thanks, any idea on why the filter “[Subject]=‘Request*’” didnt work?
also asterisk issue?

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Partially. In current implementation only strict filters (no wildcards) can be made. You can search other topics on the forums, it was already discussed a couple of times.

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Hi @vvaidya

could you tell me, In which version of UiPath was worked?

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“[From]=‘Uipath Helpdesk’”

This should work in all versions.

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Hi @vvaidya

Could pls send me any usecase xaml file if you have , because it is not working in my case.

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Hi
Could you please send me any xaml file for filtering mails based on received date.