Power Automate: rand function
by Randomization plays a massive role in our lives, even if we rarely see it. Power Automate has excellent support for randomization with the “rand” function …
Tag: Function Day
Function Day is where I’ll explore the basics of some functions and provide some recommendations on how to use them. I’ll focus on Microsoft Flow, SharePoint, and PowerApps since there’s a lot to explore there, but there may be other references showing up in the future.
Please don’t expect an exhaustive list of all functions. You can find that on Microsoft’s excellent reference. I’ll focus on the most common ones and build from there, but I want to make Function Day a thing on this site.
Articles will come out every Thursday, always 1 pm Lisbon Time. Since I have three platforms to explore, you can expect Power Automate, SharePoint, and Power Apps articles, every three weeks. Time permitting I’ll increase the frequency, but I think this is the right balance so that I can keep on delivering valuable information in a defined schedule.
Power Automate: startsWith function
Power Automate’s startsWith function is part of a set of functions that deal with strings. In this case, we’re checking if a string starts with …
Power Automate: float function
Converting things is essential, and Power Automate has a few functions to help us in doing that. Today we’ll focus on the float function that …
SharePoint: Trim Function
The trim function serves as an excellent helper tool to clean text. We all know that if we have five people inserting data into a …
Power Automate: When true is not true
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 …
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: 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 …
SharePoint: Round Function
Rounding is a super valuable and essential math operation, but it can be tricky depending on what you want to do. Also, some rules rely …
Power Automate: or function
Sometimes one function is not enough, so combining multiple is necessary. To help us with that, we have the “or” function. It combines multiple functions …