What’s New in Alteryx 2021.4 | Outlook 365 Connector
By Alteryx
Summary
## Key takeaways - **New Outlook 365 Connector in Alteryx 21.4**: Alteryx 21.4 introduces a new Outlook 365 Connector, enabling easier access to data within your mailbox, including emails and calendar entries. [00:08] - **Automate Email and Calendar Data Extraction**: The connector allows users to drag and drop the Outlook 365 block to select data from emails or calendars, choosing between their own or a shared inbox and specific folders. [00:14], [00:24] - **Advanced Attachment Handling**: Users can configure Alteryx to automatically download attachments, specify save locations, and even empty the target folder beforehand to prevent duplicate files. [00:44] - **Selective Data Processing**: The Outlook 365 Connector provides flexibility in choosing specific fields from Outlook, such as sender, date, body, and attachments, for processing. [00:59] - **Automate Email Actions**: Beyond data extraction, Alteryx can process emails by moving them to folders, deleting, archiving, or marking them as read, facilitating a fully automated workflow. [01:09] - **End-to-End Workflow Automation**: The Outlook 365 Connector enables complete end-to-end automation, from scraping emails and downloading attachments to processing, cleaning, and outputting data to various destinations. [01:20]
Topics Covered
- Automate End-to-End Email Data Processing with Ease
Full Transcript
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21.4 gives you easier access to your
data
with the new outlook 365 connector you
can access the data living in your
mailbox
to get connected just drag and drop the
outlook 365 block and choose how you'd
like to be authenticated in this case
we'll sign in via a web browser
from here we can choose if you want to
get data from emails or from calendars
you can select if you want to use your
own inbox or a shared one as well as the
folders that you'd like to use
for search options you can choose if you
want to include or exclude subfolders or
even paste a search query directly from
outlook
when it comes to attachments alltricks
lets you choose if you want to download
attachments automatically and lets you
choose where you'd like them to be saved
you can even have the folder emptied
before downloading to avoid having
duplicate files you also have the
flexibility to choose whichever fields
from outlook that you'd like the sender
the date the body attachments and so on
what's more is that you can even have
alteryx process emails for you so you
can move them to a folder delete them or
archive them or have them marked as read
the outlook 365 connector means you can
have a fully end-to-end process
automated from scraping emails and
downloading attachments processing
blending and cleaning them and then
outputting them wherever they need to go
into files databases or even have them
sent out by email again
download 21.4 today and start solving
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