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Merging PDF attachments from Outlook in Power Automate

Community Beginner ,
May 16, 2025 May 16, 2025

I've set up a Power Automate flow to detect when an email from a specific inbox folder contains multiple PDF attachments, and merge them to a single PDF. However, the final merging step of the flow fails regardless of how I structure the array. I've included "compose" step to verify that the content bytes of the array in my test run are valid, and included conditional steps to ensure only PDF attachments are being passed to the array. 

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I've attempted to structure the array a few different ways based on other posts around the web and on the Adobe site, but none of them seem to work. This is my most recent attempt, using modified steps from this article (as I'm using Outlook and not Sharepoint and would like to avoid an extra step of creating temporary Sharepoint files) Merging Documents Using Microsoft Power Automate | by Raymond Camden | Adobe Tech Blog
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I've double-checked that I'm switching to text mode in the Merge PDFs step and not using the default Key Mode, and I've tried entering the array both within the brackets that autofill in text mode, and with the brackets removed

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I've also tried setting the region in "Show Advanced Options" to match my region, with no luck. 

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Here is the raw input from a failed run (Base64 truncated for readability) showing the array being passed:

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 It seems the issue is in the array structure, but following the steps elsewhere on the site, I can't figure out how to properly structure this array before passing it to the Merge PDF step.

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