Power Automate: When a feed item is published Trigger
by RSS was pronounced dead so many times that I lost count, but it’s still around and healthy. RSS provides us an amazing opportunity for automation …
Tag: Best Practices
I’ll show you the best practices for the Power Platform tools. I provide them based on my experience and learning, so that doesn’t mean you can’t adjust them. I learned them from other people’s experiences also, so I don’t make the same mistakes.
Consistency is important, especially when multiple people work on the same platform. I see all the time SharePoint sites with heterogeneous naming, lists with convoluted names, and more. Having consistency enables you to know always what something means. It also helps when someone comes aboard where you can point to the rules and know what to do.
Regardless of the platform, I strongly recommend that you don’t want to adopt mine, at least have them written down on your side. Even if you work alone, create your best practices and reference material. It will make you think, and sometimes you’ll see where some things could be improved.
Power Automate: createArray Function
I see many questions around this function; one of those is, “why should I use a createArray function?” It may seem strange, but this function …
Power Automate: Planner Update task details Action
As for all Office 365 tools, Power Automate integrates with Microsoft Planner, and there’s a lot that we can do. If you want an example, …
Power Automate: Planner When a new task is created Trigger
In my opinion, the Planner “when a new task is created” trigger is one of the most useful Planner triggers. Tasks are created frequently, and …
Power Automate: concat Function
Building strings is one of the most common actions in any tool or framework, and Power Automate is not the exception. The concat function helps …
Power Automate: Get file metadata using path Action
It’s quite common to parse files in Power Automate, especially in bulk. But to parse files, we don’t need to get the file into Power …
Power Automate: Send an HTTP request to SharePoint Action
Power Automate has an amazing set of actions for SharePoint, but none is more versatile than the “Send an HTTP request to SharePoint” action. With …
Power Automate: HTML to Text Action
There are times when HTML is not useful, being for parsing the text or saving it. Removing HTML tags is a pain; that’s why the …
Power Automate: array Function
The array function will convert any value into an array. By any value, I mean one value only! The point of this function is not …
SharePoint: Hour Function
The “hour function” is part of a suite of functions that deal with dates. It returns the part of the time; for example, 12:30 will …