Setup the CoE using Azure Key Vault Thursday, October 17, 2024 10:00 AM Toni Pohl In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, maintaining visibility and control over your organization’s M365 Power Platform environment is crucial. The Center of Excellence (CoE) for the Microsoft 365 Power Platform serves as a vital tool for organizations to monitor, manage, and optimize your Power Platform resources effectively. In this article, we will guide you through the process of setting up the current version of the CoE Core solution using Azure Key Vault for secure and efficient Audit Log access. Azure | Cloud | English | Governance | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Power Platform | PowerApps | Flow | Tools Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Azure Logic Apps Toolbox 10-Dynamic access to keys and values in a JSON object Saturday, June 1, 2024 8:00 AM Toni Pohl In Azure Logic Apps, looping through objects is a common requirement. When we have prior knowledge of an object’s properties, the process is straightforward. However, things get more challenging when attempting to access properties dynamically. See a method to access data in a JSON object dynamically here. Azure | App | Logic apps | Tools | English | Flow Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Power Platform Environments and Governance tips using Solutions Friday, November 11, 2022 7:00 PM Toni Pohl The Microsoft Power Platform is great for quick and easy solutions and workflows. While developing a new Power App or flow is quick, governance and management can present some hurdles. Well, there is help for some topics, such as the use of solutions. Read more here. Cloud | English | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Power Platform | PowerApps | Flow | Serverless Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
How to restore a flow from a backup to another environment Tuesday, September 13, 2022 10:00 AM Toni Pohl In the previous article, we showed and described two flows to backup and restore a flow. This works well when the flow's connections are still in the same environment. But what about restoring a flow in a different environment? This is a typical use case for "moving" flows from a source environment to a target environment, such as from the development environment to the productive or department environment. In this article we show how this works with the restore flow. Developer | English | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Power Platform | Serverless | SharePoint | Tools | Flow Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
How to backup and restore a flow with another flow Monday, August 29, 2022 5:00 AM Toni Pohl Did you know that you can backup and restore a flow (or multiple flows) with another flow in Power Automate? This is very helpful for backing up and restoring important flows in the company. Well, I knew the mechanism. Now I've tested it myself and found that this process is undocumented and I've only found examples that didn't work. Reason enough to develop the process to work and describe it with all workarounds. Here is the guide for real world application. Cloud | English | Flow | Governance | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Power Platform | Serverless | SharePoint | Tools Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Trigger a Power Automate Flow through a SharePoint List Item Monday, August 8, 2022 6:56 AM PH Power Automate is a great tool to automate SharePoint based Tasks, e.g. Document Approvals, Notifications,… The flows can be triggered by a new or changed Element / Document in SharePoint, but very often, we want the user to start a flow for a specific, selected document. For that, Microsoft is Providing a Power Automate Trigger called "SharePoint – Start for the selected document", which can be triggered for the selected document in SharePoint. The flow gets the ID of the selected document and can do anything you want with that document. In this post, I explain, how to trigger a flow, that is located in another environment than the default environment Power Platform | Flow | SharePoint Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Azure Logic Apps Toolbox 5-Custom JSON payloads Thursday, January 14, 2021 8:51 PM Christoph Wilfing Did you ever have the problem of pushing different JSON payloads to a logic app and hitting errors due to JSON schema mismatches? The usual HTTP Request forces you to define the JSON Schema at the beginning. For every tiny difference in the later used properties you need to create your own Logic App even if the process is the same. I will show you an example of a single Logic App deciding at runtime which JSON schema to use for decoding the post body payload. Stay tuned! Azure | Cloud | Developer | English | Flow | Logic apps | Microsoft | PowerShell Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Handle failed actions in Azure Logic Apps Tuesday, October 6, 2020 4:00 PM Toni Pohl Today´s a quick tip for users working with Azure Logic Apps. This article shows how you can continue to work in a flow if an action has failed. This sample accesses an Excel file from a Microsoft teams SharePoint site and searches for a key. If the key was not found, the flow shall continue and deliver a useful error code with a message. See how this works here. Azure | App | Cloud | Developer | English | Flow | Microsoft Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (2) | Post RSS mehr
Azure Logic Apps Toolbox 2-Send text and files (multipart/form-data) to SharePoint Online Monday, February 17, 2020 6:00 AM Toni Pohl Using an Azure Logic app is often a quick fix for small computing tasks. So my scenario is as follows: I want to use a form on a website to offer text fields and file upload. The submit button is intended to send the data to a Logic App. The Logic App receives the data and writes it to a SharePoint Online list and sends a notification if necessary. See the implementation here. App | Azure | Business Intelligence | Cloud | Developer | English | Flow | Logic apps | Microsoft | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Serverless | SharePoint Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (2) | Post RSS mehr
Join us at the Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp in Vienna! Saturday, October 5, 2019 12:00 PM Toni Pohl We are excited to kick off the Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp in Vienna, Austria on November 27, 2019! App | Azure | Cloud | Cognitive Services | Developer | English | Event | Microsoft | MVP | Microsoft365 | Microsoft Teams | Office | Office365 | Open Source | PowerApps | Flow | SharePoint | TypeScript | atwork | Visual Studio Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Working with Microsoft (Group) Forms and Flow Saturday, July 13, 2019 2:00 PM Martina Grom Microsoft Forms is very popular because it is a very easy way to create web forms quickly. You can create surveys, quizzes and simple forms, and easily see results as they come in. This quick tutorial shows how you can use Microsoft Forms, convert it to a group form, how you can access the result file and how to add additional tasks with Microsoft Flow or Azure Logic Apps. Microsoft | Office365 | Microsoft365 | Office | English | Cloud | Business Intelligence | Flow | Logic apps Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (3) | Post RSS mehr
Tips for PowerApps-6 tips for working with images Sunday, April 14, 2019 7:00 AM Toni Pohl Since I use PowerApps only from time to time, I wanted to document some common actions, such as working with images and the camera control. So, here are my little notes in 6 tips. App | Cloud | English | Microsoft | Office365 | PowerApps | Flow | Business Intelligence | Tools Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (6) | Post RSS mehr