I previously did a post that demonstrated how you can use Power Automate Desktop to extract text from a PDF. At the time you were not able to extract tables from a PDF. In Feb 2022 Microsoft announced that they added that capability to PAD so I thought I might give it a quick whirl. To use it simply drag the Extract Table from PDF action to the designer providing the source of … [Read more...] about Extract Tables from a PDF using Power Automate Desktop
Power Automate
Power Automate is a cloud-based service that allows you to create and automate processes and actions which will save time and effort with repetitive tasks. There are many benefits of Microsoft Power Automate such as Streamline everyday tasks, improved workforce productivity and the ability to easily share and access business data. Check out the latest posts on Power Automate.
Identity Reader – AI Builder
On Friday Microsoft announced the addition of the ID Reader model to AI Builder. I thought I might give it a quick go and I must admit I was pretty impressed. It is incredible some of the AI capabilities in the Power Platform that you can leverage without any coding skills. This prebuilt model allows you to extract identity information from passports and also US driving … [Read more...] about Identity Reader – AI Builder
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
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 how to identify the Dataverse event that triggered the flow. Step 1. Create The Flow When you create the flow you choose a condition or set of conditions that trigger the flow. Step … [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
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
Call a Power Automate Flow – Power Automate & Watson
The beauty of low code platforms is not just that you can build applications quickly but also you easily integrate platforms without any significant technical skills. In this post I am going to show how to call a Power Automate Flow using a Watson Assistant chatbot. I did a post a while back on how you can call a Power Automate Flow from a Power Virtual Agents bot to query … [Read more...] about Call a Power Automate Flow – Power Automate & Watson
