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.

Power Automate: indexOf Function

by Manuel T GomesFebruary 11, 2021April 2, 20250

The “indexOf” function is essential for data parsing. You’ll rarely parse some text and don’t use this function. It returns the first occurrence of a …

by Manuel T GomesFebruary 9, 2021April 2, 202510

One of the best ways to deal with email is not to deal with it at all. With Power Automate, you can check each email …

by Manuel T GomesFebruary 4, 2021May 21, 20251

Sorting is essential for any app’s good navigation, but most of the time, we want to define a column to be the “default” sorting column. …

by Manuel T GomesFebruary 2, 2021May 21, 20250

Sorry if the title looks a little bit like “clickbait,” but I want to show you something really cool. Now that SharePoint has expanded the …

by Manuel T GomesJanuary 21, 2021April 2, 20256

The substring function is widely popular and widely used. We have the need all the time to parse the string to get sections of it. …

by Manuel T GomesJanuary 19, 2021April 2, 20250

As Flows grow more and more in complexity, managing one becomes important for fixing issues, testing, and maintenance. Power Automate provides a wonderful tool for …

by Manuel T GomesJanuary 14, 2021May 21, 20252

It’s funny that there are two functions to perform concatenation of “stuff.” Some people get confused when thinking about using one or the other, but …