July 2024

Force an approval request to complete and allow automation to keep running (stop waiting)

Table of Contents When we create approval requests with the out-of-the-box action in Power Automate, our flow will usually wait for the approval to happen for next steps to keep running, and this can be an issue if something happens with an approver and we can’t get them to complete the request. So, sometimes it […]

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Power apps

Always show EST time zone in Power Apps

Table of Contents When we save data in SharePoint or Dataverse from Power Apps, datetimes are stored in the universal time zone (UTC) and whenever we show date time columns in the apps, Power Apps will always recognize the user’s setting and will show date time based on this. There are some scenarios in which

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Microsoft Power Automate

How to cancel a flow run if there is another execution running?

Table of Contents We were recently working on an automation that syncs on demand 2 different systems, end users use a button in a Power Apps app to execute this synchronization any time of the day, this automation takes around 15 minutes to run.  It may happen that two users in two different departments request

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