Flow: News from Ignite 2019
by Ignite 2019 brought a lot of changes to the Power Platform, and there’s a lot of fantastic stuff to explore. I’ll explore them in the …
Category: Power Automate
Microsoft Power Automate is an automation tool that is super powerful and quite accessible to everyone. Each article is a step-by-step tutorial that teaches you how to build your automation in Microsoft Power Automate. Time spent automating day-to-day tasks always pays off since you free precious time to do other, more complex tasks. And who doesn’t need extra time? If you’re a pro, I’m sure you can find something useful and learn.
Microsoft changed the name from Flow to Power Automate in Ignite 2019. I will slowly change the names and adapt the articles, but please be aware that I’ll use these names interchangeably.
Articles will come on Tuesdays at 7 pm once every three weeks since I’m publishing at the same timeline articles about Power Apps and SharePoint. Reference Articles will be published every Friday at 7 pm also every three weeks.
Power Automate: dayOfWeek Function
The dayOfWeek Function will return an integer number that represents the day of the week for a date, where 0 is Sunday, 1 is Monday …
Flow: Parse UTM Parameters from URL
Updated 2020-01-09: Improved the Flows to get only the UTM parameters to parse. Templates updated also. For those unaware, what are UTM parameters, they are …
Power Automate: utcNow Function
The utcNow Function is equivalent to Now function in SharePoint and PowerApps, but it always returns the current date in UTC. SharePoint and PowerApps consider …
Flow Approval Workflow Explained
Flow approvals are a fantastic feature of Flow where you can create quite complex approval workflows with not a lot of work and complexity. Flow …
Power Automate: Template Archive
Welcome to our Microsoft Power Automate template archive created by Manuel Gomes and with contributions from other people. This list contains some of the templates …
Power Automate: How to Import a Template
One of the coolest features of Microsoft’s Flow is the ability of export and import a flow as a template. You can easily share complete …
Flow: How to do bulk changes to an existing Flow?
Imagine that you have a flow that automates the creation of a new article for you. It creates the folders, templates, adds the tasks, etc. …
Flow: Issues loading images in email
Since the proliferation of email, there was always one constant. SPAM. Since then, email providers and spammers played a game of “cat and mouse,“ making …
SharePoint: Issue extracting a zip with empty folders
Let’s start with a practical example to demonstrate this issue. You have a pre-defined structure for your projects, and you want, when you create a …