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 Apps: No more magic numbers

by Manuel T GomesNovember 26, 2019April 3, 20250

When building a Power App, one of the most common items that we use is the Browse Gallery. You can create lists of anything quickly, …

by Manuel T GomesNovember 22, 2019April 2, 20250

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

by Manuel T GomesNovember 19, 2019April 2, 20253

For a big team, it’s essential to have control over the time-off or holidays that each takes. Each person has his/her allowances, and some need …

by Manuel T GomesNovember 12, 2019April 2, 20253

While scrolling on my Twitter feed I found this piece of amazing news in how to run a child flow. In @MicrosoftFlow ‘Run a Child …

by Manuel T GomesNovember 8, 2019May 21, 20250

The RoundDown function rounds a number to a specific number of decimal places, always to the nearest lower number. The round is still down regardless of …

by Manuel T GomesNovember 5, 2019April 2, 20250

Ignite 2019 brought a lot of changes to the Power Platform, and there’s a lot of fantastic stuff to explore. I’ll explore them in the …

by Manuel T GomesNovember 1, 2019April 28, 20251

The dayOfWeek Function will return an integer number that represents the day of the week for a date, where 0 is Sunday, 1 is Monday …

by Manuel T GomesOctober 22, 2019April 2, 20255

Updated 2020-01-09: Improved the Flows to get only the UTM parameters to parse. Templates updated also. For those unaware, what are UTM parameters, they are …