Select Mail attachment that's Excel or any extension I am looking for

[Ambarish_Sundararajan]

I was following the RPA Developer foundation course in Academy. The first exercise has you create a process in Studio that reads an Email with subject New Task, Downloads the Excel Attachment and read range from the Excel workbook into a datatable.

My Outlook email has my signature with my company logo and pngs for Linked In and a bunch of other logos. So when I followed the exercise and first tried to read range using the following:
MailMessages[0].Attachments[0].Name, I got an error saying PNG is not supported, then realized it could be the logo in my signature. So I had a MessageBox activity to read out the names and found that the fifth attachment in the Attachments collection was the Excel one. Is there a way in code to use linq or if condition or a for each loop to get the attachment whose name has .xslx in its name and read range from that attachment?

[Chris_Bolin]

You can use an assign to get the CType of the attachment and then put that in an if statement before you download the attachment

in assign AttachmentName = CType(item.Attachments.FirstOrDefault, attachment).Name

where Item is what you have in your for each loop…then do an if statement

Hope that helps

Chris

[lepumin (José L. Rodríguez)]

@Ambarish_Sundararajan

MailMessages[0].Attachments

Linq:
firstAttachXls = MailMessages[0].Attachments.FirstOrDefault(Function(a) a.Name.ToLower.Contains(“.xls”))

This return attachment or nothing value.