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Sending Flow Result Messages Back to a Power App
Recently I was asked if I could add a success message to a Power App – something to indicate that they’ve clicked the button. I added a beautiful spinner and dusted off my hands, job well done. Well, no, they wanted to know that the Power Automate flow that the button triggered had actually run…
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Use Power Automate to Send an Email Reminder 24 Hours Before an Event
I couldn’t believe this wasn’t a template already when I searched, so I figured – blog post it is! Two in a month, I did it again! The Use Case This one is pretty simple. A user reached out and said she had a idea for how to use Power Automate, but she wasn’t sure…
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The Painful Process of Using Custom Values for OneNote Power Automate References
I didn’t realize how painful this process would be until I embarked upon it, and so, Dear Reader, I’m looking to combine the resources that helped me into one place to help you if you are to find yourself in a similar scenario. The Use Case I was recently given a scenario where, as an…
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Utilizing the Contents of a SharePoint Image Column Elsewhere
So I recently met with someone who had a conundrum. They had a SharePoint list with an Image type column, relatively new-ish, and they wanted to post the contents of this column to Teams on a regular cadence, along with other text column content. They had tried every dynamic content option related to the Image…
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Connections in Power Automate (and How to Take Control of Them)
Do you have a flow running, proud as can be, except… the emails it sends out says they are from you? Did you get help on a flow and now it says that the SharePoint library is being updated by your coworker? All of this is due to *~*connections*~* in Power Automate. I’m going to…
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Approvals Using SharePoint Groups
At my office, we have a lot of documents that undergo an annual review process. I was tasked pretty early on in my time here to help move this process from an Access database into the cloud. I could go on and on about the intricacies of what we set up, but I wanted to…
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Frankenstein’s Monster Error Handling for Power Automate Cloud Flows
Be warned now – the content in this post is not 100% from my own brain and genius. In fact, it is cobbled together from three different geniuses who were kind enough to post their own methods for error handling in Power Automate over the years. I’ve judiciously bookmarked those posts, just waiting for when…
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How To Create a Name Pronunciation Database Using the Power Platform (now with samples links!)
The Problem and Requirements I work at a medical research institute that is incredibly diverse. We have scientists from all over the globe, which can lead to some frustration on everyone’s part when it comes to the diverse names that these employees have. To be clear – it’s not just an issue of names that…
Lindsay T. Shelton 