Learn how to automate your business processes in your organization using Microsoft Power Automate tutorials.
In most organizations, teams typically have a shared Microsoft 365 Group, such as a department or project group. So, when a new approval process is created in Power Automate, it’s common to assign the approval to that group’s email address. However, here’s something you need to know: when you send an approval to a Microsoft … read more…
When I was working on a document management approval process in Power Automate, I came across a requirement related to approval timeouts. You’re aware that by default, an approval can only remain pending for approximately 30 days, correct? However, in my case, the client requested that the approval remain active for an extended period. So, … read more…
As we know, we can create a SharePoint Team site or a Communication site directly using the SharePoint Admin Center. However, to save time and effort, there is a good option that allows us to use the Power Apps form and create a team or communication site with a single button click. In this tutorial, … read more…
I was working on an IT Help Desk application where I faced an interesting challenge. We were using the Power Automate REST API to get data from a SharePoint list and display it in a Power App. Now, our SharePoint list also has attachments, and when the flow returned all the records, we wanted those … read more…
While working on a client project, I needed to create a SharePoint list with various columns, including Single Line of Text, Choice, Date and Time, Person or Group, Number, Yes/No, Hyperlink, Multiple Lines of Text, Currency, and Lookup. One challenge I encountered was that the columns’ internal and display names differed, which often led to confusion when using them in … read more…
Last week, while working on a Document Management System, I used the SharePoint library to store the document, and it needed to be reviewed by more than one person. The requirement was simple: when a file is uploaded, the approval process should start automatically, and multiple people should receive the request. Here, I didn’t need … read more…
Last July, I wrote a post about how we can extract invoice details using AI Builder and store them in a SharePoint list. That flow has been working great, but recently, I got a new requirement from the same team. They no longer wanted to store the invoice data in a SharePoint list. Instead, they … read more…
While managing automation processes for an internal business system, I set up more than 200 Power Automate flows, each responsible for handling different parts of operations, such as approvals, notifications, and data updates. Everything worked great until one day, a few important flows failed silently. I didn’t even realise it until someone from another department … read more…
When I was working on a Document Management System, I noticed that every time a column was updated in a SharePoint document library, it automatically created a new version of the item. In my case, this wasn’t necessary because I was only updating metadata fields and didn’t want to increase the version count. After some … read more…
Yesterday, one of my subscribers reached out with an interesting requirement: they needed to create a SharePoint list and its columns using Power Automate and have that list automatically show up in the SharePoint site’s left-hand navigation (the quick launch menu). In this tutorial, I will tell you how to add a SharePoint list link … read more…
When we create flows in Power Automate, it’s common to receive text that isn’t perfectly formatted, with extra spaces, unwanted characters, or parts of a string you don’t need. Cleaning the text before saving it to SharePoint, sending an email, or creating a file is essential. In this tutorial, I will tell you how to … read more…
In Power Automate, you may sometimes need to clean or modify text before using it in your flow. Maybe you want to remove extra spaces, change a word, or replace special characters in a file name. In these cases, replace() help us. In this tutorial, I will explain how to use the Replace() function in … read more…
One of my colleagues recently asked for help with a tricky scenario. He runs a webinar where participants register at different times, and every time a new participant signs up, he wants to send them the meeting link. However, he doesn’t want Outlook to continue emailing all the previously registered attendees repeatedly. Usually, if you … read more…
While working on an IT Help Desk product, we needed to get all items from a SharePoint list using Power Automate. The list has more than 10,000 items, and retrieving all of them takes around 38 seconds. To improve the speed, we decided to get only the items created between specific dates. In this tutorial, … read more…
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