Employee Check-in Simplified using Power Automate

Company employees who move between offices are often faced with a tedious process of having to check-in at the security desk to get a temporary pass. This process can be time consuming and is further exacerbated when the person who needs to approve the check-in is not available. Luckily, we can use flow to make … Continue reading Employee Check-in Simplified using Power Automate

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

Blanking out date fields in Dynamics 365 using a Flow

Dynamics 365 supports a number of base content types naively that can be set via Flow. However, date fields are a bit finicky. When trying to set a date field, you can provide the date in a string format. But what do you do if you need to clear out an existing value in a … Continue reading Blanking out date fields in Dynamics 365 using a Flow

Tracking your Agile project progress using Azure DevOps and Flow – The Sprint Backlog

This is the second post that discussed how information tracked in Azure DevOps, such as the sprint burndown chart and current sprint backlog can be exported to SharePoint using Flow. This scenario applies to times when you want to share such information with clients without giving them direct access to Azure DevOps. If you're new … Continue reading Tracking your Agile project progress using Azure DevOps and Flow – The Sprint Backlog

Tracking your Agile project progress using Azure DevOps and Flow – The Sprint Burndown Chart

Microsoft Azure DevOps is a great tool that allows you to manage your Agile projects. It allows you to easily track most of the information a scrum master or product owner are currently interested in, such as your product backlog, sprint backlog, burn down chart, and more. If you're new to Agile project management, I … Continue reading Tracking your Agile project progress using Azure DevOps and Flow – The Sprint Burndown Chart

Changing connections in a Flow

One of the best practices for Flow is to have key workflows run under a service account that has elevated permissions and possibly a higher Flow license. This provides for more flexibility and potentially shorter workflow completion times. At the same time, it is not preferable to give all Flow makers within an organization access … Continue reading Changing connections in a Flow

Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (Toronto)

If you've missed the Microsoft Ignite event last September in Orlando, FL, no worries. You still have a chance to get a lot of the information right here in Toronto next week. Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (Toronto) will be taking place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Jan 10-11, 2019. There are over … Continue reading Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (Toronto)

Flow Approval Workflows with Office 365 and Azure AD Groups

If you've had a chance to use the Flow approvals, you'll agree that it's very easy to configure them and have users respond to them, even from within their email applications. Building approval workflows is very simple. All you need is is a trigger that will cause the approval to kick-off and provide a few … Continue reading Flow Approval Workflows with Office 365 and Azure AD Groups

Staying Healthy with Flow and PowerApps

Getting sick is never fun, especially with small kids at home. This is why it’s important that we take our meds quickly to avoid prolonging our recovery. In the past, I would stack up each on some common meds to be ready just in case I needed them. However, I would still find myself either … Continue reading Staying Healthy with Flow and PowerApps