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Manuel T. Gomes

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Tag: Into The Weeds

There are articles that I go a little bit deeper into a concept. I call them “Into the Weeds,” where I describe complex topics, things that you should be careful about, and fix more tricky issues.
I want to write these articles for 2 main reasons. The first is to have something for the more advanced users to read and solve potential problems. The second to enable people that are still learning about the Power Platform to have a more rich learning experience by having more challenging topics.
Even if you don’t apply them immediately, you’ll know that these areas are a bit more tricky. When you encounter something similar in your projects, you’re aware of them and save a lot of time trying to understand why something doesn’t work. Going “Into the weeds” can burn time, and I want to save you some headaches also.
The important part for me is that you learn something new, but also teach me. If you don’t agree with some of the concepts or want me to focus on them, please get in touch. I want feedback, and you can always reach me by email or Twitter.

Power Automate: How to add all email attachments to Planner?
Microsoft / Microsoft Planner / Office 365 / Power Automate / Power Platform

Power Automate: How to add all email attachments to Planner?

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesNovember 28, 2022December 1, 20220

Recently Nick commented on my “How to send an email and create a task in Microsoft Planner?” article, mentioning that I don’t have an article …

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Power Automate: When Excel can make things easier
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Power Automate: When Excel can make things easier

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesJanuary 31, 2022May 25, 20221

The idea for this article came from a comment posted on the website where we were trying to figure out the solution to filter an …

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SharePoint: Round Function
Microsoft / Office 365 / SharePoint / SharePoint List Function Reference

SharePoint: Round Function

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesDecember 9, 2021December 20, 20210

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 …

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Power Automate: equals function
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Power Automate: equals function

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesNovember 25, 2021December 20, 20210

Comparisons as extremely useful in any programming language or platform and Power Automate is not the exception. The “equals” function helps us to have two …

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Power Automate: Teams – When a new channel message is added Trigger
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Power Automate: Teams – When a new channel message is added Trigger

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesOctober 29, 2021December 1, 20222

Microsoft Teams is the tool today for interaction with co-workers, but it can be overwhelming when the channels are popular, and people are active. So …

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SharePoint: RoundUp Function
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SharePoint: RoundUp Function

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesOctober 28, 2021December 20, 20211

Rounding number is sometimes necessary, and it’s an essential operation in math, but it can be tricky depending on how you do it. That’s why …

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Power Automate: What is Pagination?
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Power Automate: What is Pagination?

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesOctober 26, 2021December 20, 20216

I’m sure this happened to you. You use a SharePoint “Get Items” action, and you only get 100 items. Of course, you know there are …

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Power Automate: Error while testing
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Power Automate: Error while testing

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesOctober 25, 2021December 20, 20210

How many times have you been developing a Flow, and you get this horrible error while testing. Ugly right? So today, I want to show …

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Power Automate: Planner – When a task is completed Trigger
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Power Automate: Planner – When a task is completed Trigger

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesOctober 22, 2021December 1, 20221

Power Automate reacts perfectly when things change in Microsoft Planner. For example, we have a trigger that fires “When a task is completed”, which can …

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Power Automate: if function
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Power Automate: if function

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesOctober 21, 2021February 28, 20222

Nothing compares to the Power Automate “if “function when it comes to fundamental functions. It exists in all platforms, programming languages, and tools. You name …

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Manuel Gomes - Power Automate: SharePoint – For a selected item Trigger

Thanks so much! I appreciate it. It's EXACTLY what I want when I write the articles. I'm happy that's what's…

Manuel Gomes - Power Automate: SharePoint – For a selected item Trigger

No. It triggers item by item, unfortunately. Cheers!

Manuel Gomes - How to move emails in a shared mailbox in Power Automate?

Hi Tim, No need for a terminate. I took the screenshot from one of my Flows and mistakenly added it.…

Tim Pullen - How to move emails in a shared mailbox in Power Automate?

Hello Manuel - I see you have a Terminate at the very end - Do I always have to put…

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