Skillful Sardine
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.
Deleting files is a dangerous operation but important regarding automation and keeping things under control. One example is temporary files. You may need a file …
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 …
I ran into this issue in the Power Automate Community and found it interesting. It has all the things that automation can do for us. …
It’s pretty impossible to track manually when a file is changed in a folder or list of folders. Even if you have a good strategy, …
Let’s say that you get an email all the time, but it’s not you who should deal with them. For example, you receive something from …
Arrays are part of the building blocks of Power Automate , and we can get arrays from many actions, like the SharePoint “Get Items” action, …
Did you know that you don’t need to do all actions in one Flow? I would argue that you should not do everything in one …
We delete files manually or manually, so it’s hard to keep track of “when” and “by whom”. Power Automate helps with the “When a file …
Depending on your productivity/organization system, flagging emails is either a must or a waste of time. If you’re the former, the “flag email” action is …
The “output” function is used to get the values from actions. Similar to how “variables” function but for all actions instead of only variables. Let’s …
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