Power Automate can send a free text message to a mobile phone by using something called an email to text gateway. Every mobile phone company has one. You can send an email to a 10 digit phone number and the…
The Power Automate error message file <filename> is locked for shared use by <user email> is caused by attempting to update SharePoint file properties after performing an Excel action. I have encountered this message many times and I will share…
Power Automate can be used to populate a reusable Excel template with values. To do this, you’ll need to know two techniques: how to write a value to a single cell and how to add multiple rows to a table.…
This is the pattern I use to create a new Excel file with Power Automate and add rows. It can take data from any datasource (SharePoint, Dataverse, SQL, etc.). And the file is dynamically generated so it is not necessary…
With this method I was able to get 50,000 rows from an Excel file in 7 seconds. By comparison, the Excel action built in Excel action is quite slow. It took over 5 minutes to get the same amount of…
Multiple rows can be added to an Excel table using a single Power Automate action. And the best part is its blazing fast. Using the HTTP for Azure AD connector I added 10 rows to a table in 1 second…
If you use the Power Automate Excel action to list rows present in a table you will notice an option to filter the result. In this short guide I will show you how to filter Excel table rows in Power…
Power Apps Powershell cmdlets give administrators access to a hidden group of commands that cannot be executed through the Power Platform admin center. Often times, these Powershell cmdlets get promoted into the user interface of Power Platform. It provides Microsoft…
Power Apps named formulas enable us to use the same app logic in several different places. Unlike a variable, named formulas do not store values in memory. They recalculate each time they are referenced. Named formulas ensure the most current…
Welcome to the Power Automate Coding Standards For Cloud Flows. In this guide you will find 60+ pages of coding rules, guidelines and best practices I use everyday to create Power Automate cloud flows. I have spent the last 3…