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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 →
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 →
This is post was originally posted at Slalom Technology. I’m addicted to automation, across all aspects of life. Is this a bad thing? I like to be efficient, remove the tedious work from my list and let a robot do it instead. Is this so bad? A little history… I’ve been a developer for about 20 years.... Continue Reading →
This post is the third post in this mini series as we look at how easy the Office 365 stack integrates. In this series, we will: Create a Form and have the data save directly in Excel Add the Form to Microsoft Teams Notify the Team a submission was made (this post) How does this... Continue Reading →
One of my biggest headaches with developing and testing in SharePoint is my lack of test data to work with. Sometimes I need to generate a load of test data so I can perform searches or test performance on custom code. Like in this blog post, I needed to load up a bunch of fake... Continue Reading →
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