Use Case The Power Automate Desktop (v2.50) allows updating value of work queue items without changing the status of an item. However, it failed to update the input value while processing the work queue items (Processing Status). Through this tutorial I have explained the process to solve this problem by updating the value of ‘Queued‘ […]
The introduction of adding images or documents (in preview) as input parameter in custom GPT prompt makes it easier for non technical users to extract specific fields without the need for pre-training models with sample data. This reduces the time and effort spent on preparing and fine-tuning custom models for document processing. Features & Benefits: […]
Use Case String parsing is a common scenario when building workflows to solve business problems. In this article, I have taken a complex problem of extracting number from a given string. I will demonstrate how we can create a utility flow by using expressions, select & filter actions to perform the extraction operation. Scenario An […]
Use Case The “Requeue item with delay” pattern delays the execution of work queue item but does not define the max attempts for its processing. In the below example, I have demonstrated the technique to stop reprocess work items after certain attempts. To achieve that, we can use ‘requeuecount‘ property as max retry count and […]
Use Case In many organizations, business users are not granted owner/co-owner access but are allowed to run or trigger flows by granting ‘Run Only User‘ access permission. Business users can’t cancel the flow due to this restriction. To address this limitation, we can leverage SharePoint list & power automate cloud flows to allow them to […]
Use Case To mitigate the risk of saving static machine credential in desktop flow action in cloud, we can leverage Azure Key Vault feature. This feature also addresses password rotation policy that most of the organizations follows. With ‘Credentials‘ feature in power platform, we can pull the latest password stored in Azure Key Vault and […]
Use Case In automation, many a times we come across copying data from email body to other data source like excel, SharePoint, Dataverse table etc. To extract data from HTML table & then transform it into JSON requires writing lots of complex expression and multiple action. To resolve this issue, I have leveraged custom AI […]
Use Case Microsoft introduced a new preview feature “Automation Center” to efficiently monitor the health of cloud and desktop flows. This report can help in detecting issues and troubleshoot problems quickly. When navigated to dashboard, I found details for some flow runs were missing in the dashboard & reports. In this article, I have demonstrated […]
Basic framework to automatically retrigger unattended desktop flow with the advantage of reducing the efforts & time of support team.
Use Case The simple data URI method of embedding image in an email body does not work when image size is more than 1 MB. I did some research and found an alternative approach using graph API. The only catch is that it requires a premium connector ‘HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID (preauthorized)‘. Scenario We […]
