Power Automate Approval Templates to Automate Business Processes

Power Automate Approval Templates to Automate Business Processes

In an organization, I set up a Laptop Agreement process in which employees submit requests for laptops to work from home. These requests are stored in a SharePoint list named “Laptop Agreement.” Each request needs to be reviewed by the Releasing Officer. Once approved, the laptop allocation details must be added to another SharePoint list … read more…

How to Add Column If Contains in Power Query Power BI

Add Column If Column Contains Blank or Null power query in Power BI

When working with Power BI, I need to check if a column contains a specific word or value and then create a new column based on that. At first, I struggled with this because there are many different “contains” scenarios in Power Query. After working on e-commerce dashboard projects, I learned some easy, reliable ways … read more…

How to Add a Column If Blank or Null in Power BI Power Query

Add empty column to table in power query

In my organization, I am creating a Power BI dashboard, and I often encounter columns with blank or null values. These empty fields can cause issues in calculations and visuals. To fix this, I started using Power Query and DAX to check for blank or null values and create clean, meaningful columns. In this tutorial, … read more…

How to Duplicate Column using Power Query in Power BI

How to duplicate multiple columns using Power Query

Recently, while setting up a reporting dashboard for an organization, I had to work with some data that wasn’t fully clean. One of the tables had repeated values, and before using it in visuals, I needed to clean and prepare it properly. To do that, I first created a duplicate column so I could apply … read more…

Start and Wait For an Approval of Text Action in Power Automate

Start and wait for an approval of text Action in Power Automate

While working on an approval workflow for one of my client projects, I ran into an unexpected issue. The requirement was simple: the approver needed to enter a custom text response instead of just choosing Approve or Reject. But when I tried using the regular Start and wait for an approval action, I realized it … read more…

[Solved] AttachmentContentNotValidBase64String Error in Power Automate

AttachmentContentNotValidBase64String error in Power Automate approval

Recently, while working on an approval workflow for our Power Platform Course, I had to attach supporting documents, images, PDFs, Excel files, and other documents to the Start and wait for an approval text action in Power Automate. Everything worked smoothly until I reached the step where the flow needed to send attachments. However, none … read more…

Remove Commas From Dataverse Number Field

How to remove thousand separator from dataverse number column

While working on a Power Apps Model-Driven App, the Contact Number field was created as a Number column in Dataverse. However, the numbers were displayed with commas as thousand separators, which made the contact numbers look confusing. The requirement was to remove these commas and display the numbers as a clean, continuous string. In this Dataverse … read more…

How to Get Dataverse Created by in Power Automate

Power Automate retrieve Dataverse Created by

Recently, I was working on a Voter Application Forms app for an organization using a Model-Driven App in Dataverse. As part of the requirement, I needed to create a flow that sends an email to the manager (or any authorized person) whenever a new entry is added to the Dataverse table. The email must also … read more…

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