Hey Everyone, I haven’t been able to find a way to upload a pdf from Google Drive to Outlook as an attachment to a draft email. I have done both downloaded the PDF from Google Drive and also a HTTP request. I have been getting errors about the Binary Data. Relatively new, so a step by step would b…

Are you trying to use the PDF binary as an attachment on the outlook draft, or as the message content?

As an attachment to a draft email.

Hi, I noticed a couple of things from the screenshots. Please try the following steps: 1- In the HTTP node, set the Response Format to File. [image] 2- In the Outlook node, add Attachments. [image]

Click Add Field, choose Attachment, and put the binary “data” in that instead of in the “message” field.

This is what I get as an error code. [Screenshot 2025-03-20 171848]

try this first: [image] mohamed3nan: 1- In the HTTP node, set the Response Format to File.

I have already. It still gives me the “were unable to deserialize” error code on the outlook end [Screenshot 2025-03-20 172241] .

Wait, why are you using the HTTP node? If you want to download a file from Google Drive, why not use the Google Drive node with Download Operation?! [image] and Options Output File: data so this will be the input for the outlook attachment

Okay I did that now but when it gives me the error code “cannot deserialize” [Screenshot 2025-03-21 at 11.09.10 AM] [Screenshot 2025-03-21 at 11.09.17 AM] [Screenshot 2025-03-21 at 11.09.23 AM]

hmm at this point I think this is a bug since you’re using n8n cloud and according to: [image] Outlook NodeApiError: were unable to deserialize Known Issues Hello everyone, I’m currently facing an issue when posting a message on n8n (cloud version) and adding an attachme…

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mohamed3nan March 21, 2025, 3:24pm 11

hmm
at this point I think this is a bug since you’re using n8n cloud and according to:

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