Email Endpoints are available in PhixFlow version 11.3+

What is an Email Endpoint?

How does an Email Endpoint work?

1. An An Email Account (s) must be set up in your application to receive incoming emails. See Email Account Integrationfor an example.
   1. The email account setup must include:
      1. Type: choose Inbound
      2. On Email Received: choose Trigger an email endpoint actionflow
      3. Email Endpoint Action: choose your

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2. To save the emails, a

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   must be created with appropriate attributes for the headers on the incoming emails, e.g. id, from, to, cc, subject, body, folderId
3. To allow PhixFlow to save attachments, a

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   must be created
4. The above Table and File Table must have a relation on an ERD, see Relationship
5. Upon receiving an email, the

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   will run and perform the action(s) as specified within the Email Endpoint Actionflow, such as saving each incoming email as a record in a table 
   1. If saving to a table, each received email saves as a seperate separate record

Creating an Email Endpoint

Email endpoints must be made using the specific option on the 

1. Create a new

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    on the 

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   homepage using the  option
   1. 
2. Set a unique name and provide a useful description
3. Additional attributes can be added to the 

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   connection point which will obtain the value from a header with the same name on the incoming email(s) 
   1. Note: Any '-' characters are removed from the name and the names are case insensitive 
4. Configure the endpoint to perform the required tasks on receiving of incoming emails, for example, save all records to a 

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   , see Save Action Configuration
   1. If saving any of the attributes with a Type of Structured Data, a 

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      action can be used between the

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      and 

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      action to convert these incoming values into a format that can be saved by PhixFlow
      1. For each attribute, use the listToString function

Saving Attachments

Attachments can be saved in a separate 

1. On the Email Endpoint, click

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   in the toolbar to open the settings on the right
   1. For the full Properties list, see Email Endpoint Properties

2. In the Basic Settings, in the Save Attachments to field, set the File Table that incoming email attachments should be saved to

   1. A new

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      can be created by clicking the

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       icon or choose an existing table using the

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      icon or selecting from the drop down list.
      1. When creating a File Table to save attachments to, a folderId attribute is automatically created

Linking Emails and Attachments

The folderId attribute that is automatically created on new

• After receiving an incoming email with attachments:
  • A value will generate for the folderId attribute on the

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     where the email records are saved for each email received
  • A value will generate for the folderId attribute on the

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     where the email attachments are saved for each email received

Displaying Emails

Emails can be displayed using a

Worked Example

Coming Soon.

If you require further support on this topic, please contact PhixFlow Support via the 

available in Image Modified Design Mode from the system controls in the top right of PhixFlow.