Power Automate

After almost two years, I am happy to announce the new version of Power Automate Tools. It introduces important fixes and editing of connection references, which allows easy flow copying. v1.2 Fixed the issue of saving a flow Support for launching from the new Power Automate designer Improved launching from the Power Apps Portal Now the editor allows to edit the flow definition and connection references Roadmap I am planning to implement the following features in the upcoming months:...

Microsoft announced the change of the web address of the Power Automate portal from https://flow.microsoft.com to https://make.powerautomate.com. The latest version of the Power Automate Tools extension introduced support for opening the JSON editor from the new Power Automate portal and Power Apps portal as well. You can learn more about the extension on it’s GitHub page, Chrome Web Store or on the Edge Add-ons listing.

Power Platform custom connectors enable using your API in Power Apps or Power Automate flows. When the API which you plan to integrate with your app is a stable and finished product, then creating a custom connector is a one-time task to do. However, when the API is a part of a developed solution or is under active development then keeping the connector in sync with the API is a cumbersome task....

Let’s assume you need to summarize the sales data per salesman and prepare a monthly report that will be sent to the manager. How can you do this in Power Automate? The first thing that may come to your mind is to use SharePoint’s “Get Items” action to get all list items for the desired time frame and then calculate the sums yourself in the “Apply to each” loop. It may work for a small list but it will fail when we get to a larger number of items....

I bet every PowerAutomate consultant wonders if there is an easy way to replace all SharePoint site URLs or variables names in a flow definition 🤔 I could not find the answer, so I built this small (my first😊) Chrome/Edge extension allowing editing a flow as JSON in a web version of VS Code. Please, share this with your colleagues and feedback is much appreciated 😉 Link to GitHub Link to the Chrome Web Store Link to the Edge Add-ons listing