Temporarily disable Power Automate Trigger

May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 Piyush K Singh1 Comment

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In this post we’ll discuss how to temporarily prevent MS Power Automate from getting triggered. We will disable it for sometime and then resume the same without much of a hassle.

The reason to suspend a Power Automate can vary depending upon a wide variety of use cases. One such prominent use case is to disable the flow while bulk updating a SharePoint list from a background service/process. While executing a batch request, we may not want to trigger the flow and send unnecessary emails to the stakeholders!

PowerApps: Read values at any Index of a Collection or Gallery

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 Piyush K SinghLeave a comment

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There’s a requirement to sequentially traverse a collection in PowerApps. The issue is that, unlike a normal array in any programming language, we cannot directly access a collection’s item via indexing, in PowerApps i.e., we can’t dynamically read values at any index of a collection.

PowerApps People Picker default selection

PowerApps: Select Current User by Default

March 29, 2019March 29, 2019 Piyush K Singh1 Comment

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In this post I’ll demonstrate how to select the current logged in user, by default, in Microsoft PowerApps.

Call Microsoft Flow from an External Application

October 2, 2018October 2, 2018 Piyush K Singh1 Comment

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In this post I’ll demonstrate how to call/trigger a Microsoft Flow directly from an external application. This external application can be a standalone app, a website, or even another Flow.
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