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Unable to display images or attachments from Gmail in a Slack channel.

  • August 1, 2023
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joshloe

I’m looking for a way to display/attach an image from an email to GMail into a Slack Channel.


I have everything setup so far, but it is not displaying the image.   It just shows it as a file to download.   I used to have this working, but for some reason it is not anymore.  

It is showing the file but not the image:

 

Best answer by Troy Tessalone

@joshloe 

Try this…

Pull thru a fresh example in the Zap trigger.

The Attachment links are temp files that expire after some time.

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Troy Tessalone
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  • August 1, 2023

Hi @joshloe 

Good question.

Please post detailed screenshots with how your Zap steps are configured to help us have more context.


joshloe
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  • August 1, 2023

Sure

 

 

This is the results:

 


Troy Tessalone
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  • August 1, 2023

@joshloe 

The mapped variable is for all attachments, which may be a zip file.

 

You may want to try using this Zap trigger: Gmail - New Attachment

 


joshloe
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  • August 1, 2023

Thanks, I’ve changed this over to just the attached image file (there is only one file) and it does the same thing.  I’ve played around with this quite a bit.

 

 

Same result:

 


Troy Tessalone
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  • August 1, 2023

@joshloe 

I tested and was able to get this PNG image to show in Slack.

 

 

 

 

This also worked:

 


joshloe
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  • August 1, 2023

That’s weird, I just added it as attach image by URL as well, I got the same results as previously
 

 


Troy Tessalone
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  • August 1, 2023

@joshloe 

Try this…

Pull thru a fresh example in the Zap trigger.

The Attachment links are temp files that expire after some time.


joshloe
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  • August 1, 2023

That worked!  The link expired I guess, thank you!


ken.a
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  • August 2, 2023

Awesome! I’m glad Troy was able to help you resolve the issue @joshloe!

If you have any other questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the Community. We’re always happy to help! 😊