Something that is causing a lot of confusion in the Power Platform community at the moment is trying to figure out the impact of request limits. Particularly for organizations with "legacy" Dynamic CRM instances that load data from back end systems into Dataverse on a regular basis. Many of these integration processes were built long before Dynamics CRM transitioned to the … [Read more...] about Power Platform Requests – Base Request Capacity
Power Automate Desktop – UI Flow
In a recent blog post I showed how you can use the Form Processing capabilities in AI Builder to extract the details of invoices received as email attachments. In this post, I am going to expand on this and take this invoice information and use a UI Flow to submit the invoice details to a legacy application. UI Flows provide RPA, Robotic Processing, Automation, capabilities to … [Read more...] about Power Automate Desktop – UI Flow
AI Builder – Form Processing Layouts
Microsoft introduced a small but important change to AI Builder last week. Prior to this, a form processing model could only be trained to extract data from documents with the same layout. This was somewhat cumbersome when dealing with documents such as invoices where the layout varies from supplier to supplier. What is Form Processing? Form Processing in AI Builder … [Read more...] about AI Builder – Form Processing Layouts
Power Automate & Cognito Forms
Cognito Forms is one of the many platforms available for creating online forms. Cognito Forms is the only one I know of that has a Power Platform connector. I thought I might give it a whirl to see if I could create a form to capture data and use Power Automate to get the data into Dataverse. What are Online Form Builders? Online form builders are low code platforms that … [Read more...] about Power Automate & Cognito Forms
Connection References – First Look
Microsoft announced yesterday that an eagerly awaited improvement has been added to the Power Platform. The introduction of Connection References will simply the deployment of solutions across environments (details here). Prior to this when Power Automate Flows were moved across environments in a solution each flow had to edited and connections recreated. Here is a quick look … [Read more...] about Connection References – First Look
Determine which Dataverse event triggered a Flow in Power Automate
Using the Common Data Service (Current Environment) connector you can create Power Automate flows that get triggered by an event on a Dataverse table. In this post we will go through all the steps involved. Step 1. Create The Flow When you create the flow you choose a condition or set of conditions that trigger the flow. Step 2. What Flow does based on the … [Read more...] about Determine which Dataverse event triggered a Flow in Power Automate
Power Platform – 2020 Wave 2 Highlights
The Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 2 Plan was published today and here are some of the highlights that caught my eye. Power Automate RPA Microsoft recently purchased the RPA product WinAutomation and added it to Power Automate to improve their desktop automation capabilities. WinAutomation is a well established fully functional RPA product and its initial integration … [Read more...] about Power Platform – 2020 Wave 2 Highlights
Power Virtual Agents – Solutions
In the last week support for solutions has been added to Power Virtual Agents finally giving it ALM capabilities. Here is a quick post on how to add chatbots to a solution, how to modify deployed chatbot topics, and the impact of importing new versions of a solution. From the Power Apps Portal, you now have the option to add existing chatbots to your solution. This works for … [Read more...] about Power Virtual Agents – Solutions
Service Bus Queues & Power Automate
The announcement at Build 2020 that there is finally a Service Bus Explorer in the Azure Portal prompted me to write a post about using a Service Bus Queue with Power Automate. What are Message Queues? Messages queues are used to build scalable integration between platforms where a sender application puts messages on a queue and a receiver application reads the messages … [Read more...] about Service Bus Queues & Power Automate
RPA – Power Automate UI Flows
Microsoft support for RPA in the form of Power Automate UI Flows has recently been released. Here I have done a brief post to demonstrate how easy it easy to create and deploy a UI Flow. Before I explain the process involved I'm going to briefly introduce what Robotic Process Automation and Power Automate UI Flows are all about. What is Robotic Process Automation … [Read more...] about RPA – Power Automate UI Flows
