The Birthday Bot started as a simple idea to tie in plenty of fun connectors into a use-case that could translate well to an actual business need. What began as a quick endeavor, however, turned into a multi-part journey as each ‘new thing’ turned into a series of other ‘new things’ to learn. One of… READ MORE
Cards are in Office 365 for some time already. Originally created as Message Cards after some time rebuilt from nearly a scratch to become Adaptive Cards. Today they can be used in Microsoft Teams and Outlook. Process designers should make their processes as intuitive as possible, allowing their participants to take their part in the… READ MORE
One of the things I teach in my “What to do when your flows don’t flow” session, is to not worry so much about ‘elegance’ or ‘efficiency’. Build the thing with the tools you have, and then go back and make it better as you learn more. I love that Power Automate affords us, as… READ MORE
Challenge description: First trigger to write following post was my observation that Power Automate designer adds Apply for Each (loop) even if it is not required: in Approval action even if we assign single Approver/User when we use Get Items or Get files (properties only) but filtering results for single result Second was query from… READ MORE
This is the second blog post in a series of four blog posts about Virtual Entites. In this one I will let you in on how to create a Custom Data Provider. As mentioned in my previous blog post, Virtual Entities provide a possibility to display and work with data (display in views, make advanced finds,… READ MORE
Within Azure, we have a free service called Azure Blueprints. Azure Blueprints helps us in simplify largescale Azure deployments by packaging key environment artifacts, such as Azure Resource Manager templates, role-based access controls, and policies, in a single blueprint definition. Easily apply the blueprint to new subscriptions and environments, and fine-tune control and management through… READ MORE
Company-wide communications are tough to do well. Generally, most rely on mass emails that clutter inboxes of people who ignore them or even set up rules to remove them from their inbox. Larger companies have different office locations, which also have their share of communications which are probably more pertinent to their people than national… READ MORE
In this post, you will learn how to connect to an API with OAuth 1.0 authentication in Power Automate. Using this connection, we will connect to Twitter API to post tweets with @mentions and also send DMs with quick actions. The Twitter connector available in Power Automate doesn’t allow user mentions and also doesn’t have… READ MORE
Virtual Entities have been on my radar since it was released back in July 2017. I have not used it in any customer project yet though and you do not hear so much about it nowadays (as indicated in the title of this blog post). However, last year in October there was a session at… READ MORE
I am pretty good at remembering birthdays. Where I have trouble sometimes, is giving myself enough time to go buy a card, think of something meaningful to write in it, and then remembering to mail it…all with enough time for it to get there in time. My friends are nodding right now, understanding why they… READ MORE
