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: addSeconds Function

by Manuel T GomesJanuary 31, 2020April 2, 20250

I’ve used the addSeconds Function in previous posts but never spent time to explain it adequately. This function adds the number of seconds to a specific …

by Manuel T GomesJanuary 28, 2020April 2, 20253

Power Automate has a lot of cool features, but the area that is lacking, in my opinion, is function support. There are a lot of …

by Manuel T GomesJanuary 21, 2020April 9, 202535

One of the questions I see a LOT is the Power Automate Forum are issues with accessing Excel files where you provide a dynamic path. …

by Manuel T GomesJanuary 17, 2020May 20, 20250

The Power Apps Now function will return the current moment’s date, including the time. Power Apps converts the value automatically to the user’s regional settings when …

by Manuel T GomesJanuary 14, 2020April 2, 20252

Some days ago, I started having issues in all my flows, seemingly out of nowhere. I was getting Invalid Connection errors, all of them related …

by Manuel T GomesJanuary 10, 2020April 2, 20250

The addMinutes Function works just like the addSeconds Function and other similar functions. It adds the number of minutes to a specific date, based on a …

by Manuel T GomesDecember 20, 2019May 20, 20252

The Round function performs the mathematical round of a number to a specific number of decimal places. It uses the rules defined “Half Round-Up” where it rounds …

by Manuel T GomesDecember 13, 2019April 28, 20254

The addDays Function works just like the addSeconds Function and other similar functions. It adds the number of days to a specific date, based on a …

by Manuel T GomesDecember 10, 2019April 2, 20252

Usually, we think of Power Automate as something that is triggered when something is changed or created, or even as a button that we press …

by Manuel T GomesNovember 29, 2019May 21, 20250

The RoundUp function rounds a number to a specific number of decimal places, always to the nearest higher number. The round is still up regardless of …