Category: Power Automate

Build you own Raffle Solution using the Power Platform and more

If you're a presenter or organize events, then you may agree that one thing that always attracts an audience are raffle prizes.  In the past, I used to ask users random questions in the audience, which works great, but given that most of my presentations in the past couple of years have been in the … Continue reading Build you own Raffle Solution using the Power Platform and more

Save time building Flows using Copy and Paste for your Actions

Microsoft just release the preview some long-awaited functionality that allows users to easily copy and paste actions for re-use.  This functionality will save makers significant amount of time when reusing actions within a Flow or across different Flows. Copying Actions To copy an action to the clipboard, all you need to do is click the … Continue reading Save time building Flows using Copy and Paste for your Actions

Adding a Flic button trigger to a Flow triggered by PowerApps

When building PowerApps, you can use Flow to perform a lot of actions that may be more complex than what you can or want to do directly within the PowerApp.  Flows are invoked via any a number of imperative properties of your PowerApp, such as OnStart() - App OnVisible(), OnHidden() - Screen OnSelect() - Button, … Continue reading Adding a Flic button trigger to a Flow triggered by PowerApps

Strategy for enabling quick Flow Trigger or Action replacement

Every flow begins with a trigger.  In some cases, the business needs may change, which will require you to change the type of trigger being used.  If there are any references being made to dynamic content coming from the trigger, then you will notice as shown in Figure 1 that the Delete option for the … Continue reading Strategy for enabling quick Flow Trigger or Action replacement

Creating PDF documents with images using Flow

One of the nice document generation features of Flow is to create PDF documents from structured data, such as HTML.  However, if you want to integrate images, you may not see the expected result.  For demonstration purposes, suppose you want to have a PDF image that only includes.  The flow may look something like the … Continue reading Creating PDF documents with images using Flow

Sending Custom Emails and Mail Merge using Flow

Many of us have used mail merge at some point in our careers.  I was recently asked to help create a SharePoint-based mail merge, where a unique emails gets sent to clients when the status of the client changed in SharePoint.  Depending on a status value, a different email message with personalized greeting would bet … Continue reading Sending Custom Emails and Mail Merge using Flow