You know I’m a sucker for some open source goodness. This time the goodness is from Aiden “President” Kaskela. (Got something to share? Send your wares to jar@crmtipoftheday.com). The Common Data Service (Current Environment) trigger in Power Apps allows you to run your cloud flow when certain fields are updated, but there are two shortcomings: […]
Tip #1395: Take over that Power Apps app you don’t own
Can’t edit a canvas app because you’re not the owner and the original owner is away, slacking off or gone for good? Eric Regnier figured out the way to deal with the situation like a boss (You can be like a boss too by sending your next tip to jar@crmtipoftheday.com).
Tip #1394: Make connections as other people
I’m writing a Power Automate flow, and I want to have other connections like OneDrive and Outlook owned by other accounts, such as a service account. Yash Agarwal had a great suggestion on how to handle this: Share the flow with the service account as an owner, then open the flow as the service account […]
Tip #1392: Missing entities in Power Automate
The classic “give me 5 minutes and I’ll whip a flow for you” did not start well. Users entity table was not there. Options Choices: It’s something trivial and I’m simply no longer worthy. ‘u’ is not an actual ‘u’ but Russian ‘и’ typed accidentally but in a weird font. It’s a UI bug It’s […]
Tip #1391: Content management in Power Apps portals
They said Power Apps portals are only good for building functionality. They said Power Apps portals can’t do content management. They said Power Apps portals do not support publishing cycle without taking pages offline. They. Were. Wrong. The Enabler Watch this video to learn how to use language feature in Power Apps portals to create […]
Tip #1388: Check if someone is out
I’m creating an approval flow with Power Automate, and if the approval email gets an out-of-office response, I want to route the approval to somebody else Reader That’s a really good idea–say the manager is on a two-week vacation at the time the approval comes in, you don’t want to wait until she comes back […]
Tip #1384: Inline Code in Power Automate
I finally found some courage to publish a video tip of my own. Why now? Because the topic is just too good to simply write it down. You have to see it! What is it? It’s JavaScript code inside Power Automate – yes, we can! Watch this video to learn how to build the simplest […]
Tip #1383: Fire and forget flows
When you fire up a child workflow in classic workflow, it’s always asynchronous. Fire and forget. Sometimes it’s what you need, sometimes you want to insist on child finishing their greens before the dessert, so to speak. Power Automate, on the other hand, always wants the result when you call a child flow and nags […]
Tip #1381: Fixed reference entity in Power Automate
Need to reference a fixed record, for example, Accounts Payables, or SARS-CoV-2? Challenge with fixed records is that we have no idea what the record identifier is, how to reliably search for the record and how to pass it as a parameter between environments. Why not to use a fixed guid and create that entity […]
Tip #1379: App People vs. Flow People
The wand picks the wizard Nick Doelman Too tired to read? Why wouldn’t you listen instead – t.j. It’s been my observation that with a few notable exceptions, people in the Power Platform community primarily focus on Power Apps or on Power Automate. Lots of people will use both, but generally people are more “app […]