Easily Collect Array Data in PowerApps from a Flow
As you’ve probably gathered by now, I spend a lot of my time in Power Automate. But recently I’ve really started to get into building PowerApps, beyond just tinkering. (I realize I’m pretty late to the party, but I’ve heard it’s better to be fashionably late than early, so …) Naturally I’ve been interested in…
Recurring Calendar Events in Power Automate, using SOAP
It’s strange how using something called SOAP can make you feel dirty & unclean. But in the modern SharePoint development era, accessing your content via the new clean & shiny REST API can do just that. I’m going to make the case that there is at least still one good reason to use the older…
Get Some REST … Dr’s Orders
Ok, so I’m not a doctor, but this is good advice regardless. In this case, the “rest” I’m talking about is leveraging the SharePoint REST API. It’s pretty powerful and can allow you to do things in Power Automate (or any other tool) which you may not have any prebuilt actions for, such as moving…
Use XPath to Concatenate Strings (Cleaner)
There have been times when you may need to take a list of strings and concatenate them together into a single string. Think of a list of email address, concatenated by a semi-colon (;) like so: As I’ve recently mentioned, loops can be slow … and the output messy, even with a simple “Append to…
Avoid Loops with XPath
Iterating over an array of values to perform complex actions is easy with actions such as Apply to Each or Do Until within Power Automate. But what if you simply want to concatenate some strings together? Or sum some numbers? Or do some other simplistic x, y, or z logic? I already know about loops,…
Sort Array in Power Automate, Using Custom Code Connector
As I play around with leveraging code in custom connectors more and more, I just love the possibilities it offers. One of the original posts I saw was from Alex Shlega where he gives an example sorting an array. Wow this is great! But what if my array is not an array of just string…
Not-So-Regular Expression Support in Power Automate, via Custom Code Connector (Part Deaux)
One thing you may have noticed in some of the Power Automate actions is the ability to select a predefined value from a list of choices when setting the value of an action’s parameter. (Think of any one of the SharePoint actions allowing you to choose a site URL and a list name, the Terminate…
Regular Expression Support in Power Automate, via Custom Code Connector
When playing around with a new custom connection I was creating in Power Automate, I came across the Code (Preview) tab. The developer part of my brain thought “Oh, that’s neat, I can now include code, I like writing code. But I’m not sure why I would need or use that.” And that was that.…
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My name is Joey O’Neil and got my start writing code professionally beginning with Microsoft VB6, but really fell in love with code (and the art of it) with Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.0. Writing Windows Forms and Windows Services applications only lasted so long as the world jumped online. This led me to developing…
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