Tag Archives: Power Automate

Power Automate – Flow – Review

The Love-Hate Relationship with Power Automate Flow: A Developer’s Tale.

In recent years, I’ve had the pleasure (and occasional misfortune) of working extensively with Power Automate Flow. If you’re a developer who’s ventured into the world of Microsoft’s automation platform, you probably know exactly what I mean.

Why do I say both pleasure and misfortune?

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Creating a Flow to Retrieve Submitted Attachments

Today, I thought I’d share how to process an HTTP Request so as to get the attachments to be able to send them in say an e-mail.

Here’s the context.

I have an online form, it is a WPForms, which I have no control over. The form uses a webhook to send the submission to a Power Automate Flow to process the submission (extract information, push into a database, and send various notification e-mails) which all works just fine.

Now, the form itself has been setup to allow users to include attachments.

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Flow Issues – Let’s Pretend It Didn’t Happen

I had a client contact me with a weird issue. They receive e-mails which are generated by a Power Automate Flow, suddenly, around August 5-7th 2024, when they use the ‘Reply’ or ‘Reply All’ buttons it doesn’t offer up the recipients e-mail address, but rather their own?!

Ok, let’s rewind for just one moment to put things into context. This Flow has been in place for a number of years and hasn’t been edited for over 2 years. So I was 100% certain it wasn’t anything I had done!

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Power Automate, Flow, Is Great Until It Isn’t

As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’ve done a fair bit of ‘Flowing’, that is using/implementing Microsoft Power Automate Flows for a couple clients. One is particular is quite heavily invested using it to process online form, push data to SQL Azure, process e-mails, send e-mails, … It has been quite a journey and I’ve posted a few articles in the past about some of it:

My First Venture Into Using Flow

For months, if not years, MS and certain fellow MVPs have been promoting the virtues of Microsoft Flow. Until recently, I simply never had a reason to even look at it as I had no need for any of its supposed capabilities. That said, working on a new project for one of my clients and a new request by my client made me look into one particular aspect of Flow, the MySQL Connector. My Goal In the scenario we are talking about in this posting, I had a pretty simple MySQL database in which we wanted to create a table…

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To Flow, or Not To Flow, That is the Question!

I’ve been using Power Automate Flows for heading on 2 years now on an extensive project for one of my client’s and I thought I’d give people some more insight into my experience using them. You can consult my original post on the subject: I’ve used a number of connectors, such as: HTTP Request is received Send email When a new email arrives Execute Store Procedure Insert row and more … and, in the process, interacted with numerous systems: Exchange Azure/SQL Server MySQL SharePoint and more …

and several more!

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Power Automate – Delay Action

Just a quick word of caution with an issue I recently encountered while trying to develop a Power Automate – Flow.

I won’t bore you with all the details, but I was building a branch of a Flow and needed to add in a pause/delay and so I added a Delay Action. Everything worked fine.

Then my client decided that they no longer wanted a delay, so I set the delay Count (the interval) to 0 and saved my worked.

A little while longer, I received failure notices stating:

The provided ‘Wait’ action interval count ‘0’ is not valid. This must be a positive integer.Microsoft Power Automate

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