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Power Automate Benefits And Use Cases

In today’s tech-driven world, businesses need to stay ahead of the curve to maintain a competitive edge. This is where Power Automate comes in. Formerly known as Microsoft Flow, Power Automate is a cloud-based service that allows you to create automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to simplify your work and increase efficiency. 

Power Automate has a wide range of benefits and use cases that can transform the way you work. Whether it’s streamlining repetitive tasks, integrating apps and data across different platforms, or automating complex business processes, Power Automate can help you achieve it all. With its user-friendly interface and extensive library of pre-built templates, you can easily create customized workflows that cater to your specific business needs. 

#Coding4Fun – Power Automate and Cat as a Service 😸

Hi ! You probably didn’t request this, but hey, it’s Friday and it’s time to have some fun. Yesterday, thanks to Rishab, I learned about Cat as a Service (cataas). Yes, because we can have ANYTHING as a Service 😸. I was thinking about some cool and advanced scenarios to use this, then I realized that I can make my team smile with a super simple solution. A Power Automate flow that sends an…

How to – Use Do until and Delay in Power Automate

Let us take a simple example to understand the usage of the Do unit with Delay control in Power Automate. “When a Case Record’s Priority is updated to High until the case is resolved we want to perform certain action e.g. send a notification email or call an action etc. every 2 minutes or so.” This is how the final flow looks like – First is the trigger, when the case record is modified, i.e.…

Solved – Flow run timed out. Please try again in Power Automate (Microsoft Flow)

While testing one of the flows which was having “Do until” action in it, we ran across the below error. Error – Flow run timed out. Please try again. However, while navigating to the run history we can still see the flow running, and has run for over 30 minutes. That’s the default behavior. Refer to this –…

Power Automate – A Marketing Tool for Writers – Part 1

I am fairly new to the word of Power Automate – also known as Microsoft Flow – but I have to say – it’s awesome. You do need Microsoft 365 and the basic, free package is not as versatile as the paid packages, but it’s useful nonetheless. https://unitedkingdom.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/ Basically it’s a tool in which the user can set up ‘flows’ – for example – I have several tweets scheduled at…

#PowerPlatform – HowTo: Test Power Automate Flow HTTP using Postman

Hi !

It’s been a while since I wrote about Power Flow Automate, and this is a good memory reminder for myself, I always spend +30 minutes figuring out how to

Test a Power Automate Flow, triggered when a HTTP request is received using Postman.

So, simple scenario with a Flow triggered when a HTTP request is received. Important detail here, expand advanced options and choose POST as…