# Send Email with Updated Information

**URL:** <https://community.parabola.io/t/send-email-with-updated-information/1409>\
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**Tags:** Building-Flows\
**Created:** [December 17, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/send-email-with-updated-information/1409 "2020-12-17T13:03:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Henry\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Henry\_Johnson](https://community.parabola.io/u/Henry_Johnson)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/send-email-with-updated-information/1409/1 "2020-12-17T13:03:28Z")

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I am trying to combine two flows that I have into one. I’m not sure the best way to show you the flows because I think that would make answering this easier but…

Essentially, I want to use data from the first flow to inform the email sent to people in the second flow. Since I cannot send data from one flow to the next I need them to be one flow.

High level what I want to do is send an email to everyone every week informing them how many new rows are being uploaded to the airtable database. I know how to count the rows but I don’t how to then take that number and make it a number I can use in a sendgrid email.

Please let me know what other information you would need.

Thanks,  
Henry

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**Author:** ![daniel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/daniel/32/732_2.png) [@daniel](https://community.parabola.io/u/daniel)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/send-email-with-updated-information/1409/2 "2020-12-17T19:48:55Z")

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Hey @Henry_Johnson 👋

I’ve sent you a direct email, but I wanted to close this thread in case anybody has a similar question in the future. Let me know if I’m understanding your question correctly.

Copy the steps from your email flow into your main flow that updates Airtable. Make a branch right before your Airtable export that counts the total number of rows. You can then merge that branch with your email steps by using a [Combine tables](https://parabola.io/transform/combine-tables) step and join on a matching column.

If the branches do not share a matching column, you can use an [Insert text column](https://parabola.io/transform/insert-text-column) to create a column and fill it with a shared value. Your flow might look like this.

 ![combine-flows-community](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/parabola/original/2X/0/0ad024cc941d22de38a96a69048ce70b826f1efe.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Henry\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Henry\_Johnson](https://community.parabola.io/u/Henry_Johnson)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/send-email-with-updated-information/1409/3 "2020-12-17T21:23:18Z")

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Thanks Daniel! this was great!