Tag: Power Automate

  • Dataflows for Power Apps: run import from the app

    As you know I am a very big fan of Dataflows. The biggest ask from me was always the ability to trigger the Dataflow refresh on demand from a Power App. Initially, Dataflows you could only run from the maker portal. You need all sort of “powerful” security roles and permissions to do so. As…

  • Save Dataverse Notes to Azure Blob Storage and Display on PowerApps Portals (original @curious_mira)

    Last month I posted the article describing our exercise with the Azure Blob for the portal notes. The Part 1 is here: https://msolenacrm.blog/2021/07/20/azure-storage-integration-for-power-apps-portals/ This is the second part I advertised created by Mira and all implementation credits go to her as well 😎: “I have been Exploring with Olena (https://msolenacrm.blog/) how to enable the azure…

  • We are exploring OCR capabilities for invoice processing. This is the article which may help you to understand how it work if you want to train a custom model to use it then with Power Automate. Do you want your own OCR which costs less than a coffee? All credits go to Nick Grischenko. https://microsoftbusinessappsfordummies.wordpress.com/2021/07/21/simple-azure-invoice-ocr-tutorial-that-costs-less-than-a-coffee/

  • Power Automate with Dataverse: Saving API calls to Dataverse. Expand or Link-Entity?

    Within Power Automate I am trying to make SINGLE(paginated) call to Dataverse to get the list of Work Orders with the particular status linked to Account but not directly but via extra layer. Also, I can retrieve extra lookup tables which are required by logic. All in a single call because making extra API calls…

  • Power Automate with Dataverse: “Apply to each” current item/previous item

    Recently I was working on the solution and in the middle of the development discovered that I desperately need to refer to the previous item in the loop. Let’s say, I iterate through the list of items I received via List Rows (Dataverse). I check a condition in the next iteration and based on the…