Power Automate

When you are using Power Automate for some time, you will reach at point where you want to reuse a flow. Especially coming from programming background, the reuse of flow comes naturally to your mind. It is like a function or method call. Nevertheless it is not that intuitive to reuse flows in Power Automate. […]

Working with date and time in Power Automate flows can be challenging. This article aims to give you a complete overview and a reference on how to format and manipulate dates and time within a Power Automate flow. I tried to address every topic around dates and time within Power Automate: Formatting, Functions/ Expressions, Actions

Not sure which Power Automate plan you are using? This short tutorial is there to help you find out, what Power Automate plan you are using. If it is a trial plan or a business license? Just follow the steps, to check your Power Automate plan.

Due to easy of development starting your flow with a manual trigger is quite common. Once you have a solid implementation you might want to change your trigger from manual to recurrence for example. This guide explains how to change your Power Automate flow trigger type. When you change a Power Automate start trigger, you

When you have multiple environments, the need for moving flows between environments might come up. This guide explains step by step how to copy a flow to another environment. In case you just want to copy a flow within an environment, take look at: How To Copy A Flow in Power Automate (Duplicate Flow).

Having a copy of a flow is a nice fallback, whenever you are doing bigger changes to a working flow. In case your changes do not work, you can always go back to your old flow. This is just a short guide on how to duplicate your flow. In case you want to copy a

A counter or index is often needed when you are iterating over multiple elements. Within Power Automate you can increment a variable in your flow. There is even a dedicated action for incrementing variables within Power Automate. Within this article I will show you in a simple example how to use the increment action step

When a trigger should be triggered only, when a certain condition is met, Power Automate trigger conditions are the best solution. Unfortunately they are hidden at the bottom of the settings dialog of the trigger. Even if you find them, formulating an expression that does fit your requirements is not as easy. In this article

Knowing how to use strings is essential in every programming environment. Power Automate strings are no exception to this. Unfortunately, working with String within Power Automate is a little more complicated than in most programming languages. In most cases we need to use Power Automate expressions, which are not always that intuitive. With this article

Arrays are the collection type within Power Automate. They are an essential part of most Flows. This article explains how basic and advanced operations on arrays within a Power Automate Flow are implemented. Since the article is created as a learning notebook for myself, you might know better solutions to a described problem. Do not