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I know, crazy right!? I thoroughly enjoyed using Microsoft ToDo for quite some time, but as of late, like over the last several months, it's been nothing but annoying. I've conceded that it's my O365 account, or my Mac, or iPhone, or Fantastical, or COVID, that's causing the issues. I live my life on my... Continue Reading →
A new Twitter account has popped up, and if you're a Star Wars fan, you should follow them! Check out @SWfbf. No, it's not my account, I wish. This account is uploading 4k screen shots from the beautiful scenes in the Star Wars movies and TV shows. Epic right? I started downloading some manually and... Continue Reading →
I've had a few questions and other posts about sending emails. There are a few ways to skin the cat and Microsoft has made a few changes in their Office 365 Outlook Send Email actions, they removed some older ones as well. Let's take a look at what we have now. We're down to three:... Continue Reading →
In another post I reviewed how we can integrate a Form with Excel, letting all of that beautiful data be saved directly into an Excel file. This solution works really well if you are creating a new form. What if we have an existing form and we want it to write to Excel? Unfortunately, there... Continue Reading →
Sometimes it happens, Flow can't find a Form you created. I find this happens the most when you have just created a new form, however I've had other forms just not show up. I don't know why this happens. If you really want to resolve it, contact Microsoft support. I guess it's a caching/timing thing... Continue Reading →
Company-wide communications are tough to do well. Generally, most rely on mass emails that clutter inboxes of people who ignore them or even set up rules to remove them from their inbox. Larger companies have different office locations, which also have their share of communications which are probably more pertinent to their people than national... Continue Reading →
In my other blog post, I walked through the business case and options behind this flow. My goal in this post is to dive deeper into what the flow is and how it was built. Beauty, isn't it? For starters, the flow is an Automated flow using a SharePoint - When an item is created... Continue Reading →
The seamless "dev" experience between Power Apps and Power Automate is remarkable. I love how easy it is to create a flow from Power Apps, and it just works. However, there's one issue I see that I wanted to share to help others prevent headaches down the road. When you're in Power Apps and create... Continue Reading →
Microsoft has released its guidance and best practices: PowerApps and Microsoft Flow Governance and Deployment Whitepaper. It's a great document, I highly recommend it for anyone considering PowerApps, Flow and/or Common Data Service (CDS) for their enterprise. I find that a document of this stature to be intimidating to engineers, admins, and IT pros. It's 66... Continue Reading →
In my previous post, I shared a winning combination of Forms, SharePoint, Flow, and PowerApps. In this post, we're going to dive in deeper with the Flow used to save survey results from Forms into SharePoint. Forms will save it's data to Excel pretty easily, but sometimes certain question types are funky. In my use... Continue Reading →
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