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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.

Power Automate: Office 365 Excel – Delete Row action
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Power Automate: Office 365 Excel – Delete Row action

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesNovember 17, 2022December 1, 20220

Although Excel is known for being a standalone application, there’s a lot that we can do with Power Automate and tasks that we can automate. …

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Power Automate: Office 365 Outlook – Get email action
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Power Automate: Office 365 Outlook – Get email action

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesNovember 16, 2022November 14, 20220

Power Automate has excellent support for Office 365 Outlook actions like the “Get email” action. This action does exactly what you would expect. It gets …

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Power Automate: uriPathAndQuery function
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Power Automate: uriPathAndQuery function

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesNovember 9, 2022October 28, 20220

So you have a URL and want to get parts of it. One way would be to use the split function or indexOf function and …

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Power Automate: uriPath function
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Power Automate: uriPath function

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesNovember 2, 2022October 28, 20220

So you have a URL and want to get parts of it. One way would be to use the split function or indexOf function and …

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Power Automate: OneDrive for Business – When a file is modified (properties only) Trigger
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Power Automate: OneDrive for Business – When a file is modified (properties only) Trigger

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesSeptember 16, 2022December 1, 20221

It’s pretty impossible to track manually when a file is created in a folder or list of folders. Even if you have a good strategy, …

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Power Automate: startOfMonth function
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Power Automate: startOfMonth function

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesSeptember 14, 2022September 12, 20220

Dealing with dates and times is hard, especially considering time zones, formats, and regional settings. So having functions that do this for us is a …

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Power Automate: OneDrive for Business – When a file is created (properties only) Trigger
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Power Automate: OneDrive for Business – When a file is created (properties only) Trigger

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesSeptember 9, 2022December 1, 20220

It’s pretty impossible to track manually when a file is created in a folder or list of folders. Even if you have a good strategy, …

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Power Automate: OneDrive for Business – Create file action
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Power Automate: OneDrive for Business – Create file action

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesSeptember 8, 2022November 10, 20220

Creating files automatically is a godsend since there are a lot of actions that we can do. For example, I create a new folder per …

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Power Automate: startOfHour function
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Power Automate: startOfHour function

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesSeptember 7, 2022September 5, 20220

Dealing with dates and times is hard, especially considering time zones, formats, and regional settings. So having functions that do this for us is a …

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Power Automate: OneDrive for Business – When a file is created Trigger
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Power Automate: OneDrive for Business – When a file is created Trigger

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesSeptember 2, 2022December 1, 20220

It’s pretty impossible to track manually when a file is created in a folder or list of folders. Even if you have a good strategy, …

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zidane - OData: Not Equals Operator

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Manuel Gomes - Power Automate: How to download a file from a link?

Hi Koen, Great job giving back. I'm happy you're doing it. Can you share some links so that everyone can…

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Hi Edison, Indeed a Flow can't call itself, but there's a way around it. You can use the "When a…

Koen - Power Automate: How to download a file from a link?

Dear Manuel, Thank you for your input in various articles, it has helped me a lot in my learning journey.…

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