Power Automate: When true is not true
by The concept of “boolean” changes a bit from the platform, programming language, and framework that you’re using. Some consider it as 0 or 1, others …
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: contains function
In Power Automate, we need to parse a lot of strings and collections and, sometimes, it’s essential to understand if we have something that exists …
Power Automate: empty function
Checking if something is empty can save a lot of actions and potential breaking Flows. That’s why we have the “empty” function that will check …
Power Automate: Set variable Action
Variables are generic objects that can store things for us. They are instrumental, but we need to provide them with data. To do that, we …
Power Automate: What’s a parallel branch?
I’ve mentioned this a lot in previous articles, but I want to go today into more detail about what a parallel branch is and how …
Power Automate: How to unzip a file
Sometimes we need to deal with zipped files, and there’s a question on how to unzip a file. Power Automate provides the OneDrive for Business …
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Power Automate: Office 365 Excel – For a selected row Trigger
The “For a selected row” trigger is incredibly useful., especially for those who use Excel to store data. It takes advantage of Power Automate’s “add-in” …
Power Automate: bool function
Converting things is essential, and Power Automate has a few functions to help us in doing that. Today we’ll focus on the bool function that …
Power App: DateTimeValue function
Converting dates is challenging and having a function that does that for us is pretty amazing. The DateTimeValue function does that for us. It converts …
Power Automate: Initialize variable Action
Power Automate has a fantastic feature to reference information from other actions. It’s usually accessible in the “Dynamic Content” tab, but there are times when …