How to add 1 category to an Outlook message

[Scott_Snyder]

Hello, I’m hoping someone has experience setting categories on Outlook email.

My scenario includes a step wherein I want to add 1 category to messages. If a message already has one or more categories, I want to retain those, I simply want to add another. If there are none, I still want to add 1, but don’t need to preserve any obviously.

A partial image if my settings is below. This works when there are no existing categories assigned to the message, but when there are not any categories assigned, the result is the category I want to add as well as a blank or empty category as it tried to add the existing categories, but that is an empty value.

Does anyone know how to achieve this? I really don’t want a bunch of extra evaluation steps, but perhas that is unavoidable.

Thank you in advance!

[samliew]

You can use the built-in function add

e.g.:

{{ add(75.categories; "Processed") }}

You need to toggle the map switch on for the Category field.

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[Scott_Snyder]

This is great - thank you.

Where is this documented? It seems there are so many features and capabilities in this platform, but they are not easily discovered. A more robust self-serve help library would enormously valuable to the platform.

Thank you for your continued efforts here.
Cheers,

[samliew]

These are all documented in the help center and explained in the Make academy.

Links

Here are some useful links and guides to help you get started and learn more on how to use the Make platform, apps, and app modules —

General

• Help Center | Tutorials
• Make Academy – learn Make and get your certificate ← CHECK THIS OUT

Help Center Basics

• Mapping – What is mapping? What can I map? ← CHECK THIS OUT
• Mapping with arrays – How to map items in an array ← CHECK THIS OUT
• Tokens for parseDate | Tokens for formatDate
• HTTP modules – Make a request, Get (download) a file
• Webhooks – Error Handling, Responding to webhooks

Articles & Videos

• Router Magic Formula
• How to use Regex in Make
• Getting started with OpenAI

Feature Requests & Suggestions

• Suggestions for the Make Platform (e.g.: Scenario Editor)
• Suggest New Apps
• Suggest New Modules for Existing Apps

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[Scott_Snyder]

Thank you Sam!

I appreciate your contributions to the community! I reviewed the links you provided and may have missed it, but don’t see a description of the Add function you graciously recommended. I am so glad you are here to point these capabilities out!

I will continue to review the help content, but stand by my assertion that a more robust help system would be very beneficial to the Make.com platform.

Best regards!

[samliew]

The add built-in function can be found under the Array functions page:

• https://www.make.com/en/help/functions/array-functions

Some of the built-in functions are further described/used in the Make Academy tutorials. I’d suggest you complete the Make Academy if you haven’t yet!

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