Power Automate: item Function
by The item function is oftentimes misunderstood since it’s not common to be used, but it’s beneficial. For example, when you’re inside a repeating action, like …
Category: Power Platform
Power Platform is a set of tools that enables everyone to become a developer. It comprises 4 parts: Power Automate, Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Virtual Agents. See where the “Power Platform” comes from? Also, it provides tools that enable you to connect to other parts of Microsoft’s ecosystem like Microsoft 365 (former Office 365), Dynamics 365, Azure, and much more.
If you read my articles, you’ll notice that this is a big focus area. It’s quite amazing what you can do when everything is taken care of for you. Not dealing with infrastructure, servers, code, developers, and much more is a blessing. You only need to bring your business expertise, and you can deploy applications in your organization. Also, you can make your own dashboards or save everyone time by building Flows.
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Power Automate: Planner – Create a task action
Automation can help us create tasks automatically in Microsoft Planner by using the “Create a task” action. I like this action a lot because it …
What is an helper Flow in Power Automate?
The concept of “helper” Flow is more of a strategy than something that needs to be done. The idea is to have Flows with pieces …
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Power Automate: How to add an email with a task automatically to Planner?
Today a simple template, but quite powerful if you extend it to your needs. I mentioned this example briefly in my “Create a task” action …
Power Automate: Manually Trigger a Flow Trigger
The “Manually Trigger a Flow” action is, without question, one of my most used triggers ever. Although it’s super valuable to have Flows triggering automatically, …
Power App: WeekNum function
The week number is a function that represents the week’s count starting on the 1st of January. So the week that contains the first day …
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Power Automate: Planner – List Tasks Action
When a Planner starts getting many tasks, it is important to add some automation to it to keep things manageable. The “List Tasks” action helps …
Power Apps: How to pass parameters in the URL?
Did you know that you can pass parameters in the URL? Sending parameters this way will enable your App to react and adjust to settings …
Power Automate: How to download a file from a link?
Parsing emails is super boring so having a Flow that takes care of downloading attachments and sorting them is a huge timesaver. I have an …
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Power Automate: Office 365 Outlook – When a new email arrives Trigger
Sorting email manually is where productivity goes to die. But, even if you have a quick way to do it, nothing beats automatic, so Power …