Why? In one of my previous blog posts Power Automate: Flows within context of Power Apps, I already explained that Microsoft will enforce Power Automate licensing on Flows using premium functionalities. Here I also explained on how to associate a Flow within context in case Premium Power Apps licensing is enough. Now I recently started … Continue reading Power Automate: Associate a Flow within context of Power Apps
Dataverse: use the force of the API in your browser
Why? When I started using Dataverse with Power Automate, I was always using the Power Apps Portal to lookup the definition schema of a Table. Think of the scenario where we need the internal Column / Field name from a Table / Entity. For example in OData filter queries of Power Automate. We would need … Continue reading Dataverse: use the force of the API in your browser
Power Automate: Flows within context of Power Apps
Why? It has been quite some while now since Microsoft announced that Power Automate Flows using premium functionalities, could run within the context of Power Apps. But it was only recently that I came across an enforcement notification from a Power Automate Flow: "This flow's owner needs a premium license". The instructions to get a … Continue reading Power Automate: Flows within context of Power Apps
Idea: Power Automate Action Notes in historic Flow run
Why? Microsoft has been moving around the tech community, user voice and idea options quite a bit in the last few years. Even though it is often for the best, I need some consistency so I am going to log my ideas as part of my own blog 🤓. Hopefully you will also add extra … Continue reading Idea: Power Automate Action Notes in historic Flow run
Power Automate: Object must implement IConvertible in SharePoint
Why? I have seen the error of ❌“Object must implement IConvertible.” ❌ on multiple places in the Power Platform. Like this Power Apps User Forum post: Solved: Server Response: Object must implement IConvertibl... - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com). Recently Power Automate gave me the same "Object must implement Iconvertible"-response: SharePoint action failing in flow run … Continue reading Power Automate: Object must implement IConvertible in SharePoint
Power Automate: compare Items in multiple Arrays without Apply to each
Why? In one of my previous posts (Power Automate: combine values from an Array without an Apply to each » Knowhere365), we saw that we can combine values from an array without an Apply to each loop. With the same type of approach, we can also compare items in two different arrays. Should we want … Continue reading Power Automate: compare Items in multiple Arrays without Apply to each
Power Automate: combine values from an Array without an Apply to each
Why? In one of my previous posts (Power Automate: get value from Array » Knowhere365), we learned how to reference a property of an Array immediately using the integer index that an Array always has. However there are some cases where we get an Array with multible Objects in it and we want to combine … Continue reading Power Automate: combine values from an Array without an Apply to each
Power Automate: skip the Parse JSON action to reference data
Why? Let me emphasize that using the Parse JSON action (as explained in this great blog post of Luise Freese: How to use Parse JSON action in Power Automate) is always the way to go when you are starting with Power Automate. Especially if you want to have properties of your JSON ouput to show … Continue reading Power Automate: skip the Parse JSON action to reference data
Power Automate: delete a deleted Flow
Why? We can delete a Power Automate Flow in the Power Automate Portal. However it seems that the Flow is not really gone, so how can we delete a deleted Flow? 🤯 Even though we cannot find the Flow in the Power Automate Portal anymore, somewhere in Dataverse there is still a record of your … Continue reading Power Automate: delete a deleted Flow
Power Automate: relate CDS records
Why? When you have entities in the Common Data Service (CDS) that are related to each other, every now and then you will want to relate records of these entities using a Power Automate Flow. 🖇 What? Unfortunately this is not as straight forward as just using the unique identifier of the record (GUID) in … Continue reading Power Automate: relate CDS records
