Power Automate: Plan for errors and timeouts
by As we’ve seen so far in our Power Automate articles, any user can quickly create one and start dragging boxes to create a complex workflow …
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: min Function
The min Function finds in an array of numbers the lowest number. Quite simple and handy. Usage It follows a simple pattern. An array of numbers …
Power Automate: Sort an Array
I see this question asked over and over in the forums. “How do I sort an array.” The usual reply is, “you can’t, “ and …
Power Apps: DateDiff Function
The DateDiff function returns the difference between 2 dates in the specified unit. DateDiff function defaults to Days, but you can choose between Milliseconds, Seconds, Minutes, Hours, …
Power Apps: Today Function
The Power Apps Today function will return the date for the current day with the time as 00:00:00. Power Apps converts the value automatically to the …
Power Automate: addToTime Function
Power Automate provides functions to add time-based on each of the units. For example, you can use the addSeconds Function to add only seconds, but …
Power Automate: formatDateTime Function
The formatDateTime Function allows you to turn a specific date in any format you want. It’s pretty helpful since different countries represent dates differently. Another …
Power Automate: Save multi-choice Microsoft Forms
The team ran into this issue while parsing multi-choice Microsoft Forms elements into SharePoint using Power Automate. The problem is described correctly in the Power Automate …
Power Apps: Mod Function
The Mod function is a mathematical function that calculates the remainder of a number divided by a divisor. It may not be apparent its usage, …
Power Automate: Generate date from timestamp
Power Automate interacts heavily with APIs, and these tend to store dates in a timestamp. Timestamps are fantastic since they remove all the regional settings issues …