Table of Contents Power Automate cloud flows have been around for years and then Microsoft released Agent flows inside the Copilot Studio portal, and now it seems like we have two automation tools that look similar, but what makes agent flows different from Power Automate flows? Agent Flows vs Power Automate Power Automate Power Automate has been
Table of Contents There is a lot of conversation going on around AI and automation, and it can sometimes feel like it might take a lot of work and time to see value from implementing workflows that leverage automation using AI (artificial intelligence). The reality is that Copilot Studio, AI Builder and Power Automate provide all
Table of Contents Power Automate has been around for quite some years now and it’s being widely used for all types of automations, but it has become more than a workflow tool. With the capability of adding AI features to workflows (through AI Builder, Microsoft Foundry, and other third-party integrations) Power Automate is now an
Table of Contents How it’s transforming business processes Business process automation has been a thing for quite some time now, and it has helped many companies improve their operations and transform the way work is done. When embedding AI into business processes became possible, automation evolved over the years from structured development logic to a more dynamic,
Table of Contents Copilot Studio is Microsoft’s tool to create our own agents. Copilot Studio agents can respond to questions based on business data and can also perform actions like sending emails, adding a row to a table, or querying data if we add tools and instructions to them. All the above works well in some cases where the agent can use “common sense” and context to perform
Table of Contents What is automated document understanding? Automated document understanding is the process of using artificial intelligence (AI) models to analyze text, structure, and patterns inside a document to categorize them and/or extract key information from them, without manual intervention. Basic OCR (Optical Character Recognition) only converts images or documents into digitized text, but automated document understanding can help teams to:
Contents What is Microsoft Power Platform Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code environment that enables organizations to quickly design and develop tailored end-to-end business solutions. Using Power Platform, users can automate processes, create custom applications, analyze and visualize data, build intelligent agents, and develop websites for customer interaction. The main key points about Power Platform are:
Table of Contents When working with SharePoint lists, image columns are a common way to store photos or signatures. However, to get file content of image column in Power Automate a few steps are required and can be less straightforward than we may think, mainly because the place where the images are stored has changed over the years. In this blog we will show how to use Power
Table of Contents Sending multipart/form-data in an HTTP request is sometimes a common requirement when integrating Power Automate with external systems, but configuring this correctly in Power Automate is not straightforward. In this guide, we’ll show how to send multi form data in Power Automate through the HTTP action and how to convert a Postman
Table of Contents Let’s suppose we have a folder in OneDrive that we want to create a Dataflow from, and connect it to a Dataverse Table: But when working with Dataverse Dataflows, for now there is no direct way to extract a list of folders from OneDrive, when searching the options, only local folders and
Table of Contents Working with binary data in HTTP requests is a common requirement when integrating Power Automate with external systems and APIs, but handling binary content correctly requires an specific format in Power Automate to obtain successful responses from the API service. This is how a regular binary content request looks in Postman: Is
We’ve already covered how to use Power Platform for AP Invoices automation in a previous blog, and today, we bring you how to incorporate AI prompts to automatically recognize which GL account, company and cost center should be assigned to the invoice based on the invoice content. This blog will show the step-by-step process to
Power Platform has been around for quite some time now and Power Automate has become a powerful and popular tool for automation, used for a wide variety of processes. But after all the Artificial Intelligence (AI) hype started a few years ago and with all the improvements to agents in the last couple of months,
Table of Contents In some scenarios, we may need to ask users for double confirmation when they click on the “finish” button of a business process flow (BPF) and only allow the process to finish after explicit confirmation. This blog will show how to use JavaScript code to customize Model-Driven Apps and show users a confirmation dialog before finishing
Sometimes we need to calculate a list of dates in Power Automate workflows to for example generate a Planner task for each date in the list and assign it to a team member, or to generate a Teams meeting for each date in the list. There are many uses cases where a list of dates
Table of Contents Copilot Studio is Microsoft’s low-code platform for building custom AI agents, in this blog post we will cover the basic concepts to get stated with Copilot Studio and we will cover a simple but powerful use case for an agent that helps users to streamline the preparation process for Monthly Business Review
Table of Contents In some scenarios, we may need to restrict users from saving records under specific conditions within a Model-Driven App. For example, when the record has certain status, or when record changes should only be made by users with specific roles. This blog will show how to use JavaScript code to customize your
Table of Contents Manually sorting incoming emails can be time-consuming and prone to error. All companies have at least one team that needs to check emails regularly and classify them based on some type of criteria. One example is an Accounts Payable (AP) inbox, where messages may include invoices, account statements, payment status requests, or
Table of Contents Introduction to Excel templates in Power Automate Filling out an Excel file with repeating data is a very common scenario in many departments: Invoices Project charters Marketing proposals In this blog, we will show how to create fillable Excel templates with Power Automate that can be populated automatically with information from a
Table of Contents Introduction to billing plans for pay-as-you-go Setting up Copilot Pay-as-you-go in your Power Platform environment allows you to enable AI features that use Copilot credits like generative actions in Power Automate (Agent flows from Copilot) and use a Copilot Agent without committing to upfront licensing (which is currently around 200 USD /