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Manuel T. Gomes

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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.

Microsoft Teams: How to be a presentation master?
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Microsoft Teams: How to be a presentation master?

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesApril 12, 2021April 12, 20210

Like it or not, we all have to do presentations now over teams. Up until now, it wasn’t the most pleasant thing to do. Let’s …

Power Automate: Run Child Flow Action
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Power Automate: Run Child Flow Action

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesApril 7, 2021April 6, 20210

This action, when it was introduced, it was a reason for joy from the community. Previously we only had the possibility to run other Flows …

SharePoint: Automatic Document Management
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SharePoint: Automatic Document Management

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesMarch 30, 2021March 30, 20210

Document Management is a tricky topic. Everyone wants to have documentation, but no one want’s to generate it or less to organize it. That’s why …

Power Automate: Condition Action
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Power Automate: Condition Action

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesMarch 24, 2021March 23, 20210

I can say with confidence that the condition action is one the most used actions in Power Automate. It’s simple in nature and instrumental in …

OData Reference: An Introduction
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OData Reference: An Introduction

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesMarch 19, 2021March 16, 20210

First and foremost, OData or Open Data Protocol dates back to 2007 when Microsoft started it, being standardized later by OASIS (not the band, unfortunately) …

Power Automate: Apply to each Action
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Power Automate: Apply to each Action

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesMarch 17, 2021March 14, 20210

The “Apply to each” Action is one of Power Automate’s most used and useful actions. Since many actions return arrays, it’s useful to have an …

Microsoft Forms: Voting in Meetings
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Microsoft Forms: Voting in Meetings

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesFebruary 15, 2021February 14, 20210

Microsoft released January some amazing features for Microsoft Forms, but one stands out for me. Voting in meetings. If you missed it, last week, I …

Microsoft Teams: You’re on mute – optimize meetings
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Microsoft Teams: You’re on mute – optimize meetings

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesFebruary 8, 2021February 6, 20210

Because of the pandemic, most of us needed to start working from home, almost from one day to another. Companies overall adjusted really well to …

Microsoft Teams: Don’t want to use a SharePoint Site or your OneDrive?
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Microsoft Teams: Don’t want to use a SharePoint Site or your OneDrive?

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesOctober 5, 2020March 13, 20210

I’ll start by saying that the title is misleading. I know, I know, I do things like these from time to time, but I needed …

Tools: 1Password
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Tools: 1Password

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesSeptember 16, 2020September 13, 20200

Do you have a password manager? Do you even know what a password manager is? If both answers are “no,” then you need to understand …

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Hi Howard, The number 443852 looks like something that Excel would return. You're trying to use that number to convert…

Manuel Gomes - Power Automate: Add attachment to e-mail dynamically

Hi John, Yes, you can. You can even do it automatically. You can use the "When a file is created"…

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G'day Manuel Can you help with this error whereby the date does not seem to be recognised as a “‘String/date'”?…

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well, short and simple question here. Can I drop a file in my one drive, at any time and have…

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Hi Sam, That's awesome. I'll give it a shot and publish the findings here. Thanks a lot Manuel

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