title: Build your first automation using Outlook SDK of SAP Process Automation

description: In this tutorial, you will be developing basic automation using Outlook SDK of SAP Process Automation. In the end, by using the activities in this Outlook SDK, you will know how to search outlook inbox or a specific email folder and download any attachments found in the email context to a specific local folder.

SAP Process Automation has native integration to several Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Excel SDK. In this Tutorial, you will explore how to use Outlook SDK to your automations.

- Familiarity to create an automation using SAP Process Automation

It comes with rich set of functionality. For ex,

1. Our example project will be called `Outlook Sample`. Feel free to name your project as per your convenience.

There are two ways to create an automation project from SAP Process Automation Lobby.

2. You can click the shortcut **Create an automation**

or you can get started with a **Business Project** either through **Create a Process** or using the **Create** -> **Business Process** and include automation within that.

We will follow **Create an automation** approach for this tutorial. i.e indicated by number 1 in the below image.

3. Subsequently it will ask you to select your desktop agent, At the time time of this tutorial creation, we took the screenshot based on **Agent Version 0.24**. You can pick your active desktop agent version.

4. Subsequently, you will see a dialog box to create a new automation. You can give a name to your automation. In this example, we named it `searchInOutlook`. You can follow your own naming convention and name for your automation.

6. Once an empty project is created, we need to include Outlook SDK dependency to this project. Locate the settings wheel icon in your project

7. From the dependency section, locate Outlook SDK and include it as a dependency to your project. At the time of creation of this tutorial, we have used Outlook SDK `Version 1.24.58`

> Again, by the time you follow these scripts, newer versions of Outlook SDK may have been introduced. so always kindly update Outlook SDK to the latest version in this step.

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3. First we will attempt a simple folder search. so locate **Search Email** activity and add it to the flow

5. Provide a folder name and a `storeName` as per the input form. Here `storeName` refers to the email inbox, where you wanted the SDK to search. As some of you, may have additional mailbox configured within your outlook application, this field could be handy to search specific folder in your inbox. If you wanted to search the default inbox, you can leave the `storeName` empty.

| Name | Value

| :------------| :---------------

| `folderName` | outlook

| `storeName` | <your email id>

> Review the option `SearchCriterionList`; You can include additional search criteria like emails with specific subject or from specific sender. You can refer to our documentation [page](https://help.sap.com/docs/IRPA/8e71b41b9ea043c8bccee01a10d6ba72/2ea6c87f0bef430f9aed40eb824576bc.html) for additional information

6. Add `GetEmailsinContext` activity to the flow. Our previous step creates a context which is what we are going to use in our next steps.

7. As this is our first automation using Outlook SDK, we can do a simple check to find out if there is a result in our search. For ex, We can find out how many emails are present in that outlook folder. For this we will add a **Log Message** activity

> - Do review our Microsoft Outlook Best Practices from our help documentation [page](https://help.sap.com/docs/IRPA/8e71b41b9ea043c8bccee01a10d6ba72/5a48c81502db40b08e4aac866e04592a.html)

> - Also don't forget to review Outlook Email Best Practices Automation from our [SAP Process Automation Store](https://irpa.store.sap.com/#/package/a4c61c62-356e-4165-bdcb-bef08e236cf5)