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Manuel T Gomes

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Best Practices

Here I share the best practices I use for the Power Platform tools, drawn from my own experience and plenty of learning from other people's mistakes so I don't repeat them. None of this is set in stone, so adjust it to fit how you work. Consistency matters, especially when several people share a platform. I see it constantly: SharePoint sites with mismatched naming, lists with convoluted names, and flows nobody can follow. When you agree on rules, everyone always knows what something means, and onboarding a new person becomes far easier. Even if you never adopt my conventions, at least write your own down. And even if you work alone, building your own reference makes you think, and you will often spot places where things could be better. That reflection is half the value.

When a new email arrives in a shared mailbox trigger

When a new email arrives in a shared mailbox trigger

12 min read · 1 year ago

Fires when a new email arrives in a shared Outlook mailbox.

Power Automate: dateDifference function

Power Automate: dateDifference function

10 min read · 1 year ago

Returns days.hours:minutes:seconds between two dates as a string.

Power Automate: Convert Time Zone Action

Power Automate: Convert Time Zone Action

10 min read · 1 year ago

Converts a timestamp from one timezone to another.

Power Automate: workflow Function

Power Automate: workflow Function

7 min read · 1 year ago

Returns the running Flow's name, ID, region, and run details at runtime.

Power Automate: Are Conditions Case Sensitive?

Power Automate: Are Conditions Case Sensitive?

5 min read · 1 year ago

How to remove duplicates efficiently?

How to remove duplicates efficiently?

5 min read · 1 year ago

Power Automate: SharePoint Get file content using path action

Power Automate: SharePoint Get file content using path action

7 min read · 3 years ago

Returns a SharePoint file by path as base64.

Power Automate: rand function

Power Automate: rand function

4 min read · 3 years ago

Returns a random integer within a range. Negative numbers supported; no floats.

Power Automate: SharePoint Get File content action

Power Automate: SharePoint Get File content action

7 min read · 3 years ago

Returns a SharePoint file by ID as base64.

Power Automate: Power Apps (V2) Trigger

Power Automate: Power Apps (V2) Trigger

13 min read · 3 years ago

Runs a Flow from a Power App with typed inputs: text, numbers, files, booleans.

Star Wars Day

Star Wars Day

2 min read · 3 years ago

Power Automate: xpath function

Power Automate: xpath function

14 min read · 3 years ago

Parses an XML document to extract nodes, attributes, and counts. Input must be XML type.

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Manuel T Gomes

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