A few things happened recently which got me thinking about things we usually don’t talk about in the Power Platform world: Steve Mordue mentioned Dunning-Kruger Effect in his recent podcast/blog post: https://stevemordue.com/microsoft-marching-masses-to-peak-of-mt-stupid/ Another fellow MVP, Olena Grischenko, posted this interesting comment on Linkedin: “Doing lots of error handing in Power Automate recently Feels more and… Read More »
There is a strange action in Power Automate which is really not there to do anything other than to help you organize the Flow a little better, it seems: We can use scopes to put other actions in them, so we can, then collapse and expand those scopes this improving the manageability of the Flow:… Read More »
Now that we went through the process of creating a Power Automate flow that’s using Word Template action, why don’t we get this integrated into a model-driven application? Let’s first create a very simple invoice form. You should be able to do it easily (or you could use any other entity – I’m just… Read More »
I’ve never been a big fan of Word Template in Dynamics 365 since they have quite a few limitations, and, yet, I had to use them every now and then since they are so easy to develop (till you run into the limitations, of course). Besides, they are not so easy to deploy into different… Read More »
Recently, I happened to look into how google sheets connector works, and, to be honest, I was a little bit disappointed. First, I wanted to blame google. But, it turned out, there is no hiding the fact that’s it’s been provided by Microsoft itself: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/googlesheet/ In general, this connector works. But there is one notable… Read More »
Bitwise operators are, likely, not the most popular operators in the low-code world, so there is no surprise Power Automate does not have those. Which is a bit unfortunate, since, when we do need those operators, it seems like we have to opt for a custom connector/azure function/etc. But, come to think of it, if… Read More »
If you ever tried using “List Records” action with the POA table (principalobjectaccess), you might have noticed it’s not showing up in the dropdown list: However, it’s easy to solve. You just need to know the “set” name for that table (which is “principalobjectaccessset”), and, then, you can enter that name as a custom value:… Read More »
You know how we can pick output fields from the Flow actions: So, why is it that, for the flow below, “Filter Array” output is not presented in the same way it’s done for the “Get Rows” action? Even though I’m really just filtering on the results of the “Get rows”, so would not it… Read More »
If you ever wanted to use Google sheets in Power Automate, there is a connector for that: However, it turned out to be a little tricky, and this is what this post is about. Imagine there is a very simple spreadsheet: What if I wanted to read a specific row from that spreadsheet in the… Read More »
Earlier this month, I wrote a couple of post about reporting/document generation. While working on it, I also tried one other option which you may find useful, too. One of the biggest problems with Word Templates, be it classic word templates in model-driven apps or new populate word template action in Power Automate is that… Read More »