Joe Gill

Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Azure Expert

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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.

Power Platform – 2020 Wave 2 Highlights

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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

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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

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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 briefly introduce what RPA and Power Automate UI Flows are all about. What is Robotic Process Automation (RPA)? Robotic Process Automation … [Read more...] about RPA – Power Automate UI Flows

Call a Power Automate Flow – Power Automate & Watson

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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

Track Issues in Logic Apps/Flow using Correlation Id

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Previously I have written some blog post, like this one, showing how easy it is to create API endpoints in Flow and Logic Apps. This involves creating a workflow that gets triggered by an Http Request with a Json payload.  There are asynchronous “fire and forget” API calls and the calling process receives a 202 response code to indicate the workflow has been triggered. … [Read more...] about Track Issues in Logic Apps/Flow using Correlation Id

Flow – Http Request – Split On Collection

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A use case I like with to use with Flow and Logic Apps is to create a workflow triggered by a Http Request that acts as an API endpoint. In a previous post I explained how to do it and how to configure Flow to the validate the Json payload. In that post the Json request was just a simple contact object with a few data fields that we inserted into Dynamics 365. Did know … [Read more...] about Flow – Http Request – Split On Collection

Flow to Email PDF from Dynamics 365 using the Word Online Connector

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One of the never ending challenges of using Dynamics 365 was how to generate and email PDF's using data from Dynamics. While Word templates went some way towards solving the problem they have not been improved for a number of years. So generating PDF's usually requires third party tools. With the release of the new Word Online (Business) connector for Flow and Logic … [Read more...] about Flow to Email PDF from Dynamics 365 using the Word Online Connector

Logic Apps 429 Failure calling Dynamics 365

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While doing some testing recently with Logic Apps I had some workflows fail with a status code of 429 when calling Dynamics 365 actions.  A 429 status code indicates that the number of API calls to Dynamics 365 in one minute has been exceeded. This post explains how you can configure the concurrency setting of a Logic Apps workflow to avoid this problem. … [Read more...] about Logic Apps 429 Failure calling Dynamics 365

Flow to Synch Dynamics 365 with an On Premise Database

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Up until recently synchronizing data in in the cloud with an on premise database was a major challenge which typically involved writing code. With the Digital Transformation revolution and the availability of a range of integration offerings in Azure this is no longer the case. Here is a sample Microsoft Flow which demonstrate how the creation of a contact record in Dynamics … [Read more...] about Flow to Synch Dynamics 365 with an On Premise Database