Power Automate is very handy to serve as a webhook. Add When a HTTP request is received trigger and you’ll get a URL to call after you save the flow. (Genuinely curious if it should be “an HTTP“ instead.) Any flow triggered by HTTP request executes asynchronously, i.e. it returns to the caller immediately after […]
I have nothing but respect for Nick Doelman but his affinity with a mouse device is starting to wear me off. Yes, I’m talking about his recent post on conversion of a CER file into a PFX file. Screen after screen after screen. Phleee-a-a-se… Just looking at those give me a mental carpal injury. Plus […]
Rapid release cadence is great when it comes to innovation, bug fixes, and new features. One thing it’s not very good for is the documentation. It’s virtually impossible to keep one up to date. Take, for example provisioning Azure AD B2C and configuring Power Apps portals to use it. Documentation talks about Metadata endpoint for […]
&tl;dr When using Increment variable or Decrement variable actions, use coalesce function in the parameter to avoid unexpected results.
Dollars are dollars are dollars. Until they’re not. I’ve been working on the portal implementation where pricing can look like this: Forms seem to be fine but any custom layout, uhm, is suddenly very challenging. I can get values without any issues but can’t format them for display. Before long, an SOS is sent: Folks, […]
&tl;dr We are back, tons of tips in the pipeline, promise to keep in touch, new stuff coming, first BAD Masterclass of 2020 is just over two weeks. Tell me more We are back after month and something hiatus. Not that we did nothing in these few week, just the opposite. But we should’ve posted […]
tl;dr If you have email addresses coming from somewhere and you’re using them in Power Automate to filter and find the records, make sure to double the quotes. Full story One of the observations made by our lifetime tipster Jerry Weinstock was that citizens tend to create automations that follow happy path. I have to […]
We are back from the travel bursts, some reorganization, and “hold my beer I’m too busy to do it myself” spurts. The first post after this short hiatus is not going to be about Power Automate, however tempting it might be. We’ll get to that subject later on this week. In the meantime, something a […]
We usually don’t “tip” about SDK releases but 9.1.0.3 just landed in Nuget and it is too good not to be mentioned. By popular demand, support for not one but two new authentication types have been added: Current User ID login when using Online flows with OAuth (Including constructor/connection string support). This allows you to […]
This next tip comes from Marius “Why are you still on-premises” Agur Lind. Got a tip of your own? Send it to jar@crmtipoftheday.com (and don’t forget to include either your Twitter handle or LinkedIn profile link for the eternal link appreciation). Have you ever used an on-premise deployment and found that some testing and enabling […]
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