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

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

Building Enterprise-wide Multilingual PowerApps

Supporting multiple languages for corporations is a reality. It may be an organization operating in multilingual countries, such as Canada, Belgium, Italy, or others, or having a workforce that that is distributed across the globe. One common challenge in building solutions to support multilingualism is the creation and maintenance of such solutions as they evolve … Continue reading Building Enterprise-wide Multilingual PowerApps

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

Building Responsive(ish) PowerApps

Providing users with the ability to access content on their mobile devices has become common place and somewhat of a necessity today. In the best case, it would be good to have a single solution that can serve multiple devices and orientations. This article discusses how you can achieve this for PowerApps. App Settings Screen … Continue reading Building Responsive(ish) PowerApps

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

Using SharePoint REST API with CAML to return Search Results in a Flow

Flow allows you to easily manipulate your SharePoint content. However, as I discussed in my previous article Manipulating SharePoint content using Flow, there are times where the basic actions will not suffice. The Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action enables you to design your specific queries to perform various content management actions. Some common scenarios … Continue reading Using SharePoint REST API with CAML to return Search Results in a Flow

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