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: Add attachment to e-mail dynamically

by Manuel T GomesSeptember 22, 2020April 2, 202532

Adding attachments to an email looks relatively straightforward, but if you want to do it dynamically, it can be tricky to understand how to do …

by Manuel T GomesSeptember 15, 2020May 21, 20250

A while ago, I wrote an article about SharePoint best practices, and I think it’s a good time to start one for Power Apps. Like …

by Manuel T GomesSeptember 8, 2020April 2, 20256

I have to say I’m surprised by the reaction that ”Power Automate: How to access Excel with a dynamic path.” got. It’s a big problem, …

by Manuel T GomesAugust 28, 2020May 21, 20250

The StartsWith is a handy function that allows you to check if a text string starts with another. Usage It follows a simple pattern. Text …

by Manuel T GomesAugust 21, 2020April 2, 20253

The join function is handy although I, don’t see many people using it. It converts an array in a string with a delimiter. At first, …

by Manuel T GomesAugust 18, 2020April 2, 202522

Calendar invitations are some of the most used features by everyone, especially now that we’re all doing remote meetings and having many of them. These …

by Manuel T GomesAugust 3, 2020April 2, 202555

Today I answered a question in the Power Automate Community, and one of the members posted an interesting question. How to parse a CSV file …

by Manuel T GomesJuly 31, 2020April 2, 20253

The int Function does something super simple. Convert a string into an integer value. That’s it. But, as always, we need to be careful while …

by Manuel T GomesJuly 28, 2020May 26, 202515

When you’re fetching data from Excel, you would expect that Power Automate receives one from Excel. Both have the concept of dates, but something “strange” …