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 […]
Tip #1378: Update Common Data Service user photo from Office 365 profile
I had things stolen from me, I gave things away on many occasions. But I never ever lost anything. What’s the secret? Time perception. I do not lose things, I only temporarily misplace them The Enabler Consider this. Last year I created a folder for all the good tips coming in from the fellow tipsters, […]
Tip #1372: Synchronous Power Automate Flow on create/update of a record
Today’s tip is indirectly from Alex Shlega. Alex is very thorough in his writing so I was a bit surprised that his answer to running a synchronous flow from a webhook was a ‘no’. The reason cited was that CDS “execution pipeline” won’t wait for the Flow completion. Well, it will indeed not, but only […]
Tip #1370: Handle RemoteExecutionObject in Power Automate
When we talked about triggering Power Automate on Associate/Disassociate, I did set aside the task of “dealing with horrendous serialization”. Short version: it’s a RemoteExecutionObject that is serialized in the message and every DataCollection property is serialized as an array of objects with the key and value properties. Fair enough. But in the jsonified world […]
Tip #1368: Missing a flow?
Today’s tip is from Rilsina Pegado. Got a tip of your own? Send it to jar@crmtipoftheday.com. If you happen to face a situation where your flows are not visible after signing into https://flow.microsoft.com/ > My Flows or by checking default solution with global admin login. Or if you removed flow from the solution and need […]
Tip #1367: Tell apart create, update, and delete events
It’s not every day one gets to chime in on a post from Jerry, the lifetime tipster and Power Automate connoisseur. In this post Jerry talks about When a record is created, updated, or deleted trigger in CDS (current environment) connector and how to tell the event that triggered the flow using a clever combination […]
Tip #1363: Get Environment Variables in Power Automate (and Power Apps)
Is there a smart way to get an Environment Variable in a flow? Jonas “Giving XrmToolBox a good” Rapp Say no mo…