{"id":110935,"date":"2018-02-14T05:50:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:09:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:09:45","slug":"sending-automated-valentines-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/sending-automated-valentines-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner | Flow of the Week: Sending Valentines via Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Flow Fans!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day! I am here today with a quick and easy blog post to teach you how to use Flow to take your Valentine&#8217;s Day note sending to an automated level!<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking, &#8220;do I really want to go through the hassle of buying cards, filling them out, licking a bunch of envelopes and then hunting down my targeted valentine receivers?!&#8221; Not really!<\/p>\n<p>And so this year, I am going to build myself the &#8220;Flow Button Valentine Generator 3000&#8221; &#8211; The ultimate valentine sharing machine.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, maybe its an exaggeration, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Lets go to Flow!<\/p>\n<p>Head on over to <a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\">the Flow portal<\/a> and sign in. Click on <strong>My Flows<\/strong> and then <strong>+ Create from blank<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For your Trigger Search for <strong>Button <\/strong>and choose <strong>Flow button for mobile &#8211; Manually trigger a flow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now inside of the button trigger, click on <strong>+ Add an input\u00a0<\/strong>\u200band choose <strong>Email <\/strong>then add another input and<b> choose text\u00a0<\/b>\u200b then for the decription add <strong>Your Name<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/rb9t8w-dm2306.files.1drv.com\/y4msT3J5B14_-o4OjXbk0yU8lwCrwxw-frQWo4F6tYqWPjwOUez4GgOxtpAQxL8Jm8bRp4rwIz47GJ9sCGi73lEX6TyViIq8Cw0khNCIoRjVCLgpBtSl-BbFxUspNGh9Ya3oRqvFaTA98TTuGj9fpoRdndtj6i2HOTvmPcxV3xA9Mh0QoMXNUNd4MqFBS4PmlosOZnDdlSbVRQQ4M-T1Xc4ng?width=612&amp;height=279&amp;cropmode=none\" width=\"612\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Now add an action and search <strong>Send an email.\u00a0<\/strong>I am going to use the <strong>Office 365 Outlook &#8211; Send an email<\/strong> action<\/p>\n<p>Then in the <strong>*To:<\/strong> field, use you dynamic content to select the <strong>Email<\/strong> content item from the button press in our above step. Open the <strong>advanced options<\/strong> and where it says <strong>is HTML<\/strong> &#8211; choose <strong>yes\u00a0<\/strong>\u200band set importance to Normal<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/35mulg-dm2306.files.1drv.com\/y4mXs9n3v3qxLqTDItrQ43DrTafNjUhpGM00CA8-cBkAx980yY645bqLKzwZV9kLSNMVxOaHZQcPYtjH8izcaqwBOiIfVHkVwIC7f2vJ0ukaNVh2IxggEBn6J11xrAmSFdDQTvc-5bNQmVvQ7Quc6Nfnh4oODAaBhWpkGfTlm-i7HaXT3M9pcS_G1iMXy8hdLvxnF9qmi0QwMB3U6VxAAUUQg?width=615&amp;height=500&amp;cropmode=none\" width=\"615\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Now, in the body section, lets write a very personal note&#8230; That we will then send to everyone we know.<\/p>\n<p>Notice, I am using some HTML code in here to make things better looking. I am also going to put in a picture code so that my E-card isnt just all text!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"808\" src=\"https:\/\/egi8oa-dm2306.files.1drv.com\/y4mwE8cE-ZjUCOXTOQ0EPcI_zCNstCgGxiK-CeAPsDsM39PhgFeEog31eH8P5AMa97F43ZV7SQ8bQniwKuqhHX4bX3XeGdvrMwe4In_XsXYoVOHai_8aipwzK2UjJIWI1NdZBmhx1siHdvpiYA4ksYteJY-OGqruCVEkIE_mYuZ7UG2BgUgtJjOUUeq8gTrz5DmV3jfIXXLtjTzkuCmbSnd_Q?width=613&amp;height=808&amp;cropmode=none\" width=\"613\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ok, lets now Lets name it <strong>Valentine Flow <\/strong>and then <strong>Save the Flow <\/strong>and then <strong>click Done.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now go to <strong>My Flows<\/strong> and then click on our new <strong>Valentine Flow\u00a0<\/strong>\u200band click <strong>&#8230;More<strong>\u200b\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>\u200band then <strong>Run Now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"626\" src=\"https:\/\/fx1j2w-dm2306.files.1drv.com\/y4mUCVxJIWg3wYLZVq9yx_W1nbr2_kAGkLmVcYGppJT6ouT4kUQ2dleDmCcyR5NhAcv9Gu_ZfAT4fyef7gBp9jKFu8cW0IFjcXWfngbLAzrOwUAwDCVuR1umnRRMNoYniE3wESIW4tdOfwTkR0WeKeFR805WCFWsft9lYIOMbQJdRAjtddsp7dm8armdIkvMjXeEaKb0yNdhiDol365xvmC4Q?width=1129&amp;height=626&amp;cropmode=none\" width=\"1129\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u200b<\/strong>\u200bA dialogue box will appear, asking for the<strong> email <\/strong>of the recipients of your valentine, as well as<strong> your name<\/strong>. Give those two items and click <strong>Run Flow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/s2ayia-dm2306.files.1drv.com\/y4meRb8PhzIc2rOSBCjTAYECK2C9g84EVYrN3tPEliSAStfALyeuYRb22mSm1PuqIpy93SFSnLKlmJcT9I5UJBXqroEl2M4nIjDDJp46coJX1jezS7FLNJXqu02rQhTKkQs4Rulk5-EJIaMbukQ763m06XDcw-JjSaes7EEKFIBQaD0IrzPu6cELSMhHV9oYuM1hw5Sxp5YyQQAURfbefU8yg?width=716&amp;height=475&amp;cropmode=none\" width=\"716\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe flow will run, it will fill in the necessary spots with Dynamic Content and BOOM! Your recipients will get an email that looks just like this!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/spekfg-dm2306.files.1drv.com\/y4mHLZjpXnkfpPOWZEsTT2uyi7vGRk_rAv2UnFIfoX2xa7Q1SugOxOULDXx-dnA_Sk4LrpkyBi4qADPbDXxmh25mSu2bK3FlBCSPqHgv9V_H_J8hsJVLxDClRolr5RT1kj28pn1VAK3k4cBlUABIU1AND4l83_POsaZ4QT7oqeNsq2ubJnVSXKWcGlDDRiYQuNtRYWBSmhzctplwIYKZUB58w?width=1214&amp;height=597&amp;cropmode=none\" width=\"1214\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And just like that, we generate a VERY personal message than we can then quickly and efficiently send out to our network of friends and people we appreciate!<\/p>\n<p>Want to download my Valentines Card Button Generator 5000? Click on over <a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/u\/s!AnFATp1ms-B-jK0W8FP3q4u_B9B7rA\">here<\/a>\u00a0and then import this .zip file into your <strong>My Flows<\/strong> section by following the directions in <a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/import-export-bap-packages\/\">THIS<\/a> blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Boom!<\/p>\n<p>Now its your turn! Show us the Valentines you create using Flow!<\/p>\n<p>\u200bIf you want to express your valentines day love to the Flow team please leave a comment below, talk to us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MicrosoftFlow\">Twitter<\/a>, or pop into the <a href=\"https:\/\/powerusers.microsoft.com\/t5\/Microsoft-Flow-Community\/ct-p\/FlowCommunity\">Flow community<\/a> and make a post!<\/p>\n<p>Talk to you all soon!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jon\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>P.S. 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