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
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
Microsoft’s new AI Builder capability for the Power Platform includes an Object Detection model. But what does this mean and how can it be used to help organisations? This article’s objective is to kick start your thinking about the use of AI Builder Object Detection. With AI Builder, the opportunities to cost effectively digitise and accelerate a business are… 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
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
