Considerations for automating content processing with AI Prompts

Back in May, Microsoft published an article on how to Generative AI Prompts to automate content processing. It's quite impressive to see how the much the Create text with GPT using a prompt is evolving and with the new AI Hub prompt designer, creating and testing such prompts is easy. However, there are some things … Continue reading Considerations for automating content processing with AI Prompts

Implementing Paging for SharePoint in Power Automate

One of the many benefits of using Microsoft Power Automate is the ability to process large amounts of data in batches. By automating such tasks, you reduce the risk and effort associated with performing them manually and can focus on more impactful tasks. Many connectors in Power Automate are set up to process large amounts, … Continue reading Implementing Paging for SharePoint in Power Automate

Personal Case Study: Managing Type 1 Diabetes using the Power Platform and AI

If you follow my other blogs or presentations, you will notice that I like to share information on how technology can be used to improve business processes to and optimize how people work using the Microsoft Power Platform and related technologies.  I have written an article for Microsoft where I discuss how I used the … Continue reading Personal Case Study: Managing Type 1 Diabetes using the Power Platform and AI

Your Journey into the Power Platform 

If you have been working in Office 365 over the past few years, you have undoubtedly come across or heard about the Power Platform. There are endless possibilities on how it can help your work. I wanted to share with you options on how to start your personal journey, as a citizen developer, based on … Continue reading Your Journey into the Power Platform 

Preserving Deleted Files in SharePoint Online Using Power Automate

The SharePoint Recycle Bin lets users recover files they may have inadvertently deleted. SharePoint Online allows users 93 days during which they can go to the recycle bin to recover the files and have them placed back in their original location. However, at times, users may need a longer grace period. While SharePoint on-premises provides … Continue reading Preserving Deleted Files in SharePoint Online Using Power Automate

Managing Approvals in Multiple Systems

Power Automate has a great approval mechanism that can be accessed from within the Power Automate portal, Power Automate Mobile app, Microsoft Teams, and you favourite email client. However, there are times when you may want to provide approvals in another system while keeping the Power Automate approvals up-to-date. Consider the scenario where you have … Continue reading Managing Approvals in Multiple Systems

Power Platform Assessment: Data Gateways

Microsoft Data Gateways are a key component of the Power Platform that enables users to integrate their apps, workflow, and BI dashboards with on-premises services and applications. These gateways are an integral part in many organizations for business productivity. Since they are used to access and update data, they need to be carefully governed to … Continue reading Power Platform Assessment: Data Gateways

Customizing your Power Apps SharePoint Forms for Content Types

SharePoint is great at managing an organizations content and its metadata using fields and content types. For those who are new to SharePoint and information architecture, Content Types are a way to describe a specific type of item and contain the description about the item (metadata fields). The out-of-the-box SharePoint form experience can be customized using Power … Continue reading Customizing your Power Apps SharePoint Forms for Content Types

Assessing your Power Platform’s Current State for Governance

Since its inception, Microsoft’s low-code development Power Platform has been positioned as a fast learning, low barrier to entry solution for many organizations. Citizen developers are able to quickly develop apps and workflows to help digitize and streamline their business processes. Given the simplicity, it begs the question whether governance is required for the Power … Continue reading Assessing your Power Platform’s Current State for Governance

AutoSave using Power Apps, Part 2: Screen Transitions

In the first part of this two-part blog series, I discussed an approach to use a Power App timer to perform AutoSave actions. While it works well, there are some caveats to consider around, such as frequency of saving and implications on data cross multiple screens. In this article, I am discussing a screen-specific approach … Continue reading AutoSave using Power Apps, Part 2: Screen Transitions