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Cannot Not Open Attachment in Approval Email

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I am trying to create an email approval flow that includes data and an attachment(s) from a SharePoint list.

I have gotten all the request approval data to show in the email.

The associated attachment does appear in the email; however, the file doesn't open when clicked upon.

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Get Attachments and Variable Creation -



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    Cannot Not Open Attachment in Approval Email
    Hi @Phineas ,
    Can you try contentBytes instead of content ? 
    this will work as expected 

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