Handling Large Files in Power Automate
by Power Automate can handle large files, but how large? SharePoint Online supports files up to 250 GB, which sounds generous until you try moving a 200 MB file …
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.
Understanding Binary and Base64 in Power Automate
If you work with Power Automate and deal with files, you’ve encountered issues saving them. If you see things like “String/bytes is not convertible to String/binary” or …
Advanced Error Handling Patterns in Power Automate
When you start building a lot of Flows, you’ll start noticing that only checking values and if the actions succeeded only takes you so far. …
Power Automate: How to change the run history from 28 days
By default, Power Automate will retain the history of the runs for 28 days. I don’t have direct confirmation of this, but since 28 days translate …
How to call Microsoft Graph API from Power Automate?
While Power Automate has many built-in connectors for these services, there are times when you need more control or access to features not available through standard connectors. …
How to generate an Excel ID to access data in Power Automate
Everyone uses Excel in one way or another, so the next logical step is to integrate it with Power Automate and create some automation on …
Can Power Automate Run Python Scripts?
Python is one of the most popular programming languages for data analysis, automation, and artificial intelligence. It’s my favorite programing language by far, and I …
Power Automate: Running PowerShell Scripts
Many things can be done in Power Automate or using Microsoft Graph, but not everything. For certain things, Microsoft requires us to use PowerShell scripts. If you’re not …
How to update environment variables automatically with Power Automate
The other day, I cool question that I didn’t have the answer to, but got me super excited to find a solution. How can we …
Power Automate: dayOfYear function
The “dayOfYear function” helps us determine which day of the year a specific date falls on. This might not be the first function that comes …