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Simplify your Power Automate processes with Child Flows
Building complex automations in Power Automate often leads to long, hard-to-maintain flows that become difficult to troubleshoot or scale. As your processes grow, a single workflow can quickly turn into a performance bottleneck, with repeated logic, duplicated actions, and increased risk of errors. That’s where child flows come in. They allow you to isolate parts…
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Environment Variables in Power Platform
When working with Power Platform tools, it’s usually a bad idea to hardcode values that might change over time, or that are used repeatedly within the same solution or across different components. If you’re working with a single flow, app or agent, you have the ability to configure variables that can be referenced within that…
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How to filter Dataverse lookup columns in Power Automate?
When reading data from Dataverse tables with Power Automate, you can use the filter queries to narrow down the records retrieved by referencing specific columns and values. However, filtering by lookup columns is not as straightforward, requiring an additional step to compose the query. In this blog, you will learn how to perform this operation…
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How to start a Copilot Studio agent from Power Automate?
Copilot Studio allows organizations to build intelligent conversational Agents that can automate tasks, answer questions, and interact with users in natural language. One of the main features from Copilot Studio, is its capacity of integration with Power Automate, so you can initialize flows directly from an Agent. But another possibility that opens a lot of…
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Saving email attachments to SharePoint with Power Automate
If you often receive important documents by email, you’ve probably noticed how quickly your inbox becomes a storage nightmare. Manually downloading and organizing attachments can waste valuable time and increase the risk of errors. Luckily, you can easily delegate this task with Power Automate, by automatically saving email attachments to SharePoint. In this blog, we’ll…
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How to Track Updates to Selected Dataverse Fields in Power Automate
In a previous blog post, we saw how to use Power Automate to monitor changes made to a specific column from a SharePoint List. You can apply the same technique to Dataverse table, with the advantage of an even simpler process that will identify the modified column in the flow’s trigger itself. In this blog,…
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Send Files Attached by the User from Microsoft Copilot Studio to Power Automate
If you’re building Agent experiences with Copilot Studio, there may come a time when you need to handle file uploads from users, like documents, images, or forms, and send those files to Power Automate for further processing or storage. However, when it comes to send files uploaded by the user as parameters to a Power…
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How to Track Specific Column Changes in SharePoint with Power Automate
One of the most popular uses for Power Automate is to track changes in SharePoint List Items. While there is a dedicated trigger for it, there are no built-in controls for selecting which columns from the List must be monitored. For example, let’s say that we want to track only the changes made to the…
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Power Automate: Ignore or Handle Errors with Run After Settings
In general, a Power Automate flow will stop whenever it finds an error. The default behavior of an action is to execute only if the previous step is successful, which can be a problem for those scenarios where occasional errors are already expected. When designing your flows in Power Automate, the automation will start at…
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Starting a Power Automate flow from a Copilot Studio Agent
Since the rise of ChatGPT, chatbots that can process natural language and provide generative responses become a must-have for many organizations. As part of the Power Platform, Copilot Studio is a great starting point for those users who don’t have a strength software development background, but would like to create their own chatbots. A key…
