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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
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Tips for PowerApps-11 Make sure a value is selected in your dropdown

Wednesday, November 2, 2022 7:00 AM Toni Pohl
Working with Power Apps, have you seen that in the bound dropdown control the user can remove the selected item (even with single selection)? Well, there could be other solutions, but I want to make sure that a default value is always selected, even when the user clicks the button to remove the selection.
App | Cloud | Developer | English | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Power Platform | PowerApps
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Tips for PowerApps-10 Validate form input with RegEx

Tuesday, November 1, 2022 3:00 PM Toni Pohl
Forms are simple. Forms are complex. Both are true depending on the functionality of the form. While you can create forms very quickly with Power Apps, it often takes a lot of time to make them as user-friendly as possible. In this article, we'll look at how we can validate and simplify input using Regular Expressions.
Developer | English | Microsoft365 | Office365 | PowerApps | Cloud | App | Power Platform
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Pay your CoE with Azure - for special use cases only

Monday, October 10, 2022 6:00 AM Toni Pohl
The Center of Excellence (CoE), also known as the Microsoft Power Platform CoE Starter Kit, is a toolkit to gain insights into the use of the Microsoft Power Platform in an Microsoft 365 organization. While the installation has recently become a bit technically easier, a corresponding Power Platform license is also required for operation. Well, not every company owns or acquires the required license. We show how these license requirements can be solved with Azure temporary - for special use cases - and what are the benefits and the disadvantages of the PAYG billing.
Cloud | English | Microsoft | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Power Platform | PowerApps | Governance | Tools
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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
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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
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