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: dayOfWeek Function

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 …

by Manuel T GomesOctober 18, 2019May 21, 20250

The Text function is widely used in PowerApps and for a good reason. It converts any value to a text field to display. For numbers …

by Manuel T GomesOctober 15, 2019May 26, 20250

Dates are one of the most common items to display to the user, but we need to be careful doing so. Just showing it is …

by Manuel T GomesOctober 11, 2019April 28, 20250

The utcNow Function is equivalent to Now function in SharePoint and PowerApps, but it always returns the current date in UTC. SharePoint and PowerApps consider …

by Manuel T GomesOctober 8, 2019April 2, 20250

Flow approvals are a fantastic feature of Flow where you can create quite complex approval workflows with not a lot of work and complexity. Flow …

by Manuel T GomesSeptember 27, 2019May 21, 20250

By default, PowerApps tries to deal with the information in the client. For a small number of records, the client can quickly deal with operations …

by Manuel T GomesSeptember 24, 2019May 21, 20253

As soon as you start using PowerApps, you understand how powerful they can be, but you’ll find the following alert message quickly. “Delegation warning. This …

by Manuel T GomesSeptember 20, 2019April 2, 20250

Welcome to our Microsoft Power Automate template archive created by Manuel Gomes and with contributions from other people. This list contains some of the templates …