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Category: Power Automate

How to overwrite an environment with a copy of another environment

For business needs we can overwrite an existing environment. Follow the steps below to copy or overwrite existing environment. Step : 1 – Open Power Platform Admin Center and Select Existing Environment Open the power platform admin center. You can direct click the link to open – https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments now select the environment and click Copy.…
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Retrieve more than 5000 records from dataverse or dynamics 365 in Power automate using fetchxml paging

In this post I will explain about paging concept using FetchXML with Power Automate to retrieve records from Dataverse or Dynamics 365 CE/CRM. Watch the below video for practical knowledge. Or you can scroll down to read the article. Step 1 – Create a Flow and add required variables Create a new Instant flow and…
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65+ Power Apps interview Questions and answers

Here in this post I have compiled 65+ interview questions and answers for Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents and many more on Power Platform. Check out the complete questions here: Explain about the Power platform echo-system? What are PowerApps and why do we use it? What is the difference between a…
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Bulk create records in Microsoft Dataverse using Power Automate

If you want to create records in bulk using loops then read this post. Lets go step-by-step. Our scenario is business wants to create 2500 Account records from Power automate and the Account Name will be dynamically generate as “Account<Counter>” that means like Account1, Account2 and so on till Account2500. Let start. Step:1 – Login…
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How to create a scheduled flow in power automate

Using Power automate we can create a flow to run on a time schedule. Lets say you want to send a daily email to all contacts regarding some news form your company then how can you do this. The Scheduled flow in Power automate is used for this scenario. Follow the steps below: Step-1: Login…
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How to call a child flow from parent flow in Power Automate

Power Automate is more powerful cloud automation system to automate almost every manual task. In this post I will explain about how to call a child flow from parent flow. Remember that only parent child flow is supported for solution aware flows means you need to create flows inside a solution then only you can…
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Use Microsoft App Source to install apps into your power apps environment

Microsoft App Source is the largest app market place which we can leverage to find Free and Premium Apps for our environment. Let us see how you can navigate to App Source and Install Apps. Follow the steps below. Login your power apps environment and click on Solutions section. Click on Open App Source. Now…
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How to export and import flows in Power Automate

Power Automate is a game changer in Workflow automations in cloud applications. When we are ready with our flow design we can share with others using Export and Import operation. Watch the full video here to understand the scenario:

Approvals in Power Automate using custom Approval scenario

Approvals in Power Automate is very powerful tool we can leverage to achieve Approve/ Reject Scenarios without writing single line of code. We can use 4 types of Approval scenarios as explained below. Approve/Reject – Everyone must approve Approve/Reject – First to respond Custom Response – Wait for all responses Custom Response – Wait for…
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Integrate Customer Voice with Dataverse/Dynamics 365 using Power Automate

Customer Voice is a robust enterprise application to capture customer and employee feedbacks directly from enterprise surveys using ready-made templates and workflows. Now we can leverage the survey sending process from Dataverse or Dynamics 365 using Power Automate ensuring no-code concept. So let us start how we can achieve this. STEP-1 : Configure Customer Voice…
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Enable the experimental feature for Power Automate for new features

Microsoft Power Automate is the most powerful application pillar of Power Platform ecosystem. Microsoft is constantly improving the working experience with the application for easiness. Microsoft has introduced Experimental feature for Power Automate by which you can use the latest features in Power Automate. But a word of caution that as Experimental feature are not…
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Use of Date & Time Expressions Guide for Power Automate – Complete Tutorial

Date and Time field manipulations are very common in business applications. In Power Automate we can use a list of Data & Time related expressions to manage data time fields. In this post we will discuss all expressions about data and time field expressions. The below is the list of data & time expressions available…
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Convert Word to PDF from OneDrive and Send Email using Power Automate

Here in this blog we will see how we can create a word file in OneDrive and use Power Automate to read the word file and convert it to PDF and send the PDF to email as an attachment. Step-1: Create a Word File in OneDrive Open OneDrive and create a Folder “MyFiles” and inside…
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Know about Power Platform Tools | Developer Toolkit for Visual Studio 2019

In this blog we will see how we can use Power Platform Toolkit for our projects in Visual Studio 2019. Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio supports the rapid creation, debugging, and deployment of plug-ins and other customizations. Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio is similar in appearance and function to the Developer Toolkit we were…
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How to clear PL-900 with Free of Cost

Certification fives more credibility to your Resume and also will give more chance in getting jobs of your choice in market. But sometimes its difficult to identify which certification is suitable for you. As because the Certification enrollment are cost associated so you need to understand which certification is Best. let me tell you the…
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[Solved] Clear lookup field in Dataverse from Power Automate.

You can use below expression to clear lookup field. use null expression in Power Automate. In the power automate use null function in the update step. Now if you run the flow the account lookup gets cleared. Hope this helps.

Capture Image using Camera control, Save the image in SharePoint and Send email with attachment in Canvas APP with Power Automate

Using canvas apps we create portable business applications for users. Now in this post I will explain how we can create a canvas app with camera control and on clicking save button how we can call power automate to save the camera captured image in SharePoint and Send an email with the picture as attachment.…
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Configure run after feature for Action Steps in Power Automate

“Configure run after” is an important feature in Microsoft flow. The ability to invoke actions after a successful or failed action is critical when you are implementing your Flows in Microsoft Power Automate. There is a feature of Power Automate that not everyone is aware of yet a very useful one, and that is configuring…
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Do not forget to Add Comments or Notes in Every Action Step in Power Automate or Flow

As a best practice we add comments to our code while developing so that any other user or developer can understand what our code snippet is all about. To have this commenting and note functionality Microsoft Power Automate has a Add Note feature that developers and power users can use for a better visibility and…
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Extract Tabular Data from PDF using AI Builder Form Processing Power Apps | Extract Field, Tabular Data

AI Builder plays an important role to have AI enables processes in our real business scenarios. In this post I will explain the steps how we can extract field information and also tabular data from PDF forms into power apps using AI Builder Form Processing Model. watch the video or scroll to read the complete…
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My Top Best features from 2021 Wave 2 releases of Microsoft Power Platform

Really excited to tell you a lot of features has been added in this Wave 2 release of 2021 in Microsoft Power Platform. Sometimes people have no much time go through all the features so I have compiled all best features of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent & power BI and AI Builder…
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Get Selected item texts from a multi select choice field | choices in power automate

In Microsoft DataVerse we can use Choices data type to allow multiple selections for a specific field for example below I have a Choices field called as Degree where you can select multiple items. Now if you will read the Degree values it will give you the under lying values so to get the selected…
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Get text or name value of lookup field in power automate in power apps

In Power automate sometimes we need to pick the Name Text of the lookup field. When we assign directly it will give you the GUID so we have to do some tweaks. If you get the output body you can see for every look up control we have five tags in the output. For example…
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Get Text value of a Boolean field in power automate

I have written a post to get Choice or optionset text in Power automate if you have not read check now. in the below link to understand more. in the same process if you want to get the text value of a Boolean field use the below formatted syntax in your power automate or power…
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