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Power Automate Action Reference

This is my growing reference for Power Automate actions, the building blocks you drop into a flow to get work done. Every week I take one action, put it through its paces, and write up exactly how it behaves. You'll find detailed pages on the actions you reach for constantly, like the "Filter Array" action for trimming a dataset down to the rows you want, and the "Parse JSON" action for turning an API response into usable dynamic content. I cover loops and collections with the "Apply to each" action and the "Append to array variable" action, files with the "Office 365 Outlook Get Attachment" action and the "Excel Run script" action, and dates with the "Add to Time" action. Approvals get their own deep dives across the "Create an approval" action and the "Start and wait for an approval" action. Each entry covers inputs, outputs, configuration, and limitations.

Power Automate: Decrement Variable action

Power Automate: Decrement Variable action

7 min read · 3 years ago

Subtracts a value from an Integer or Float variable.

Power Automate: Increment Variable action

Power Automate: Increment Variable action

4 min read · 3 years ago

Adds a value to an Integer or Float variable.

Power Automate: Format Number action

Power Automate: Format Number action

8 min read · 4 years ago

Formats a number as currency, percentage, or custom pattern with locale support.

Power Automate: SharePoint - Create Item action

Power Automate: SharePoint - Create Item action

9 min read · 4 years ago

Creates a new item in a SharePoint list.

Power Automate: SharePoint - Add attachment action

Power Automate: SharePoint - Add attachment action

10 min read · 4 years ago

Attaches a file to a SharePoint list item.

Power Automate: Get My Profile Action

Power Automate: Get My Profile Action

7 min read · 4 years ago

Returns your Office 365 profile: department, job title, contact info.

Power Automate: Append to array variable Action

Power Automate: Append to array variable Action

7 min read · 4 years ago

Adds an item to an array variable. Accepts mixed data types.

Power Automate: Append to string variable Action

Power Automate: Append to string variable Action

8 min read · 4 years ago

Adds text to an existing string variable.

Power Automate: Set variable Action

Power Automate: Set variable Action

8 min read · 4 years ago

Assigns a value to an existing variable. Strict type enforcement.

Power Automate: Initialize variable Action

Power Automate: Initialize variable Action

12 min read · 4 years ago

Declares a variable. Required first step before any other variable action.

Power Automate: SharePoint - List folder Action

Power Automate: SharePoint - List folder Action

5 min read · 4 years ago

Returns all files and subfolders in a SharePoint folder.

Power Automate: Office 365 Excel - List rows present in a table Action

Power Automate: Office 365 Excel - List rows present in a table Action

10 min read · 4 years ago

Returns all rows from an Excel table. Requires table-formatted data.

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Manuel T Gomes

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