One of the great benefits of Flow is to help you manage content in SharePoint. There are 10 triggers and over 40 Flow actions available out of the box that allow you to access and update your SharePoint content. Retrieve contentCreate contentUpdate contentOther actions Get attachments Get entity values Get file properties Get files (properties … Continue reading Manipulating SharePoint content using Flow
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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
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
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
Bypassing Connector Authentication in PowerApps
Have you ever had a PowerApp request your permission to access various services before it would load? If so, then that PowerApp is leveraging these connectors in some way. But what if you don't want each user to have to do that? What if some of the services require permissions that the end user doesn't … Continue reading Bypassing Connector Authentication in PowerApps
Avoiding never-ending Flow triggering
When Microsoft created the Do Until control action, fortunately they took care to avoid situations where loops would run forever by adding control limits that terminate the loop even if the logic condition is not met. By default, a Do Until loop will terminate after 60 iterations or 1 hour (PT1H in ISO8601 notation). Using … Continue reading Avoiding never-ending Flow triggering
Sending Custom Emails with Flow
About a year ago, I wrote an article on how you can use Flow to Mail Merge using Flow using a couple of SharePoint lists. This works great for sending the same email to all recipients or even structuring the email in different ways based on metadata captured in the Flow. However, I have faced … Continue reading Sending Custom Emails with Flow
Triggering a single Flow from multiple SharePoint Lists or Libraries
One of the many great uses for Flow is to perform certain actions when an item is added to a SharePoint List or Library. This is easy to achieve using the When a File is created or When an Item is created triggers. However, what if you want to run the same Flow for triggers … Continue reading Triggering a single Flow from multiple SharePoint Lists or Libraries
Haniel Croitoru 