https://blog.atwork.at/tags/power-automate/Recent content in Power Automate on blog.atwork.atHugo -- 0.153.4en-usMon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2026/use-personal-developer-environments/Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2026/use-personal-developer-environments/In Power Platform, personal (developer) environments are an easy, low‑risk way to let people build and experiment without causing chaos. Everyone gets their own space, so makers can learn and try things out. It’s also exactly how Microsoft expects organizations to scale Power Platform without slowing anyone down.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2026/simplifying-multiple-file-uploads-in-power-apps-with-pcf/Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2026/simplifying-multiple-file-uploads-in-power-apps-with-pcf/A quick look at a free PCF component that makes multi-file uploads effortless.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2025/azure-logic-apps-toolbox-11-convert-html-to-base64/Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2025/azure-logic-apps-toolbox-11-convert-html-to-base64/Have you encountered an issue with the new Azure Logic Apps Designer where youre unable to save variables containing lengthy content? This has become a challenge for me recently, especially when working with HTML templates used in automated email workflows and other scenarios. Ive been unable to update these long email strings as variables directly within the new Azure Logic Apps Designer. Well, here is the workaround.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2024/setup-the-coe-using-azure-key-vault/Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2024/setup-the-coe-using-azure-key-vault/In todays rapidly evolving digital landscape, maintaining visibility and control over your organizations 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.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2024/azure-logic-apps-toolbox-10-dynamic-access-to-objects/Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2024/azure-logic-apps-toolbox-10-dynamic-access-to-objects/In Azure Logic Apps, looping through objects is a common requirement. When we have prior knowledge of an objects 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.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2022/power-platform-environments-and-governance-tips-using-solutions/Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2022/power-platform-environments-and-governance-tips-using-solutions/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.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2022/restore-a-flow-to-another-environment/Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2022/restore-a-flow-to-another-environment/In the previous article, we showed and described two flows to backup and restore a flow. This works well when the flows 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.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2022/backup-and-restore-a-flow-with-another-flow/Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2022/backup-and-restore-a-flow-with-another-flow/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 Ive tested it myself and found that this process is undocumented and Ive only found examples that didnt work. Reason enough to develop the process to work and describe it with all workarounds. Here is the guide for real world application.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2022/trigger-a-power-automate-flow-through-a-sharepoint-list-item/Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2022/trigger-a-power-automate-flow-through-a-sharepoint-list-item/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.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2021/use-azure-logic-apps-custom-json-payloads/Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2021/use-azure-logic-apps-custom-json-payloads/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!https://blog.atwork.at/post/2020/handle-failed-actions-in-azure-logic-apps/Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2020/handle-failed-actions-in-azure-logic-apps/Todays 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.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2020/send-multipart-form-data-to-azure-logic-apps/Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2020/send-multipart-form-data-to-azure-logic-apps/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.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2019/microsoft365-developer-bootcamp-vienna-2019/Sat, 05 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2019/microsoft365-developer-bootcamp-vienna-2019/We are excited to kick off the Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp in Vienna, Austria on November 27, 2019!https://blog.atwork.at/post/2019/working-with-microsoft-group-forms-and-flow/Sat, 13 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2019/working-with-microsoft-group-forms-and-flow/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.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2019/powerapps-6-tips-for-working-with-images/Sun, 14 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2019/powerapps-6-tips-for-working-with-images/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.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2019/having-fun-with-iot-flic-buttons-and-flow/Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2019/having-fun-with-iot-flic-buttons-and-flow/I just got a cute Flic button to play around with. It takes only some minutes to connect that IoT button to a connector and execute customs tasks. Well, as first step, I simply created a message in a Microsoft Teams channel. See the step-by-step instructions here.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2019/groups-governance-toolkit-part-4-orphaned-groups/Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2019/groups-governance-toolkit-part-4-orphaned-groups/In this multi-part series we show you how to handle the Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams governance toolkit. The next article cover the governance part of our Groups Governance Toolkit.Imagine your company policy requires at least 2 owners per Office 365 Group or per Microsoft Team. In this part, we want to monitor all groups that are ownerless orphaned, or do not comply with our organizations policies. The IT department shall get the information of all groups and teams where there are no owners or not enough owners and the possibility to fix that. Read below how this can be accomplished.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2019/office-365-groups-governance-toolkit-part-3-azure-functions/Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2019/office-365-groups-governance-toolkit-part-3-azure-functions/After the introduction of the Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams Governance Toolkit and with the necessary requirements we are now looking into Azure Functions. In our group and team provisioning scenario, we need a little code for provisioning of an Office 365 group and a Microsoft team. Serverless computing with an Azure Function provides the optimal solution for that. Follow these steps to create the function we need for our workflow.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2019/office-365-groups-governance-toolkit-part-2-provisioning-requirements/Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2019/office-365-groups-governance-toolkit-part-2-provisioning-requirements/In part 1 of this series we described the scenario for our Office 365 groups governance toolkit. In this part we will setup a workflow for the Office 365 and Microsoft Teams provisioning. Workflows help to follow specific processes for a successful collaboration. Offering self-services for users is a key to reduce workloads on the IT department and to allow users to cover their requirements quickly while the organizations policies are enforced during the process. A frequently asked request is how to provision a new Microsoft Team in Office 365 in a secure and monitored way. See how this can be implemented here. To allow an app to create a Microsoft group or team programmatically in a workflow, we will use the Microsoft Graph API, Azure Functions and Flow or Logic Apps. With these technologies, we can create powerful workflows to offer a self-service for users to create a team when needed, approved by the manager and being provisioned with all the necessary properties and permissions.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2018/spc19-discount/Thu, 27 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2018/spc19-discount/We from atwork will are looking forward to see you at SharePoint Conference North America 2019 that will take place in May 2019 in Fabulous Las Vegas. Check it out now and save 50 off your registration!https://blog.atwork.at/post/2018/sharepoint-conference-2019/Sun, 16 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2018/sharepoint-conference-2019/If you are working with Microsoft SharePoint, 2019 will be a great year! First of all, because SharePoint Server 2019 has been announced, and because SharePoint Conference North America 2019 will take place in May in Fabulous Las Vegas again. We from atwork will be part of the conference and we are looking forward to it. The event registration is already open and there are reduced price packages available. Additionally, find a 50 discount code here!https://blog.atwork.at/post/2018/use-sharepoint-view-column-formatting-for-displaying-pictures-and-conditional-formatting/Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2018/use-sharepoint-view-column-formatting-for-displaying-pictures-and-conditional-formatting/Today I want to share just a quick tip for custom formatting views in SharePoint lists since I need them from time to time. My goal was to show a picture of a text field with an URL and to use conditional formatting with a traffic light system to visualize the sentiment of tweets that are written to a SharePoint Online custom list from a Flow. See the formatting options here.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2017/change-a-connection-for-existing-azure-logicapps/Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2017/change-a-connection-for-existing-azure-logicapps/If one of your coworkers created a LogicApp some months ago and you want to de-personalize the connections used in a flow, you can modify the settings easily if you know how to.https://blog.atwork.at/post/2017/provisioning-an-office-365-group-with-an-approval-flow-and-azure-functions-part-1/Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2017/provisioning-an-office-365-group-with-an-approval-flow-and-azure-functions-part-1/Office 365 groups span over various Office 365 services and provide a great way for collaborating. By default, every user can create an Office 365 group. While self-service is a good thing and many businesses adopted into that direction, some companies still prefer the controlled approach. In real world environments, organizations usually want to restrict the group provisioning so that IT can control the wild growth of groups. This article series shows how to create an Office 365 group with an attached approval process with SharePoint Online, Flow and Azure functions. See how this works here!https://blog.atwork.at/post/2017/integrate_flow_onprem/Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.atwork.at/post/2017/integrate_flow_onprem/The blog shows how a Microsoft Flow can be integrated with an onprem SQL Server and retrieve and filter data dynamically from the database.