Author name: Graciela Martínez

Power Automate

Convert Excel file to CSV format with Power Automate (xlsx to csv)

Table of Contents Let’s suppose we receive inventory files from our provider, and we need to upload these stock counts in our ERP system every time we get these files. The file format our ERP system requires is a CSV document but the file from the provider is in XLSX format.  In this blog we […]

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Lookup by keyword in DAX | Contains Logic | Power BI and Power Pivot

Lookup by keyword in DAX | Contains Logic | Power BI and Power Pivot

We want to analyze how invoicing works in our company, and we would like to find out which service category is the one we’re selling the most and which we could improve. So, we pull data related to all invoices we’ve sent to clients, and we find the following table: As you notice, invoice line

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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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Cancel old approval requests sent from Power Automate | Dataverse approvals

Either because we created too many rows when we were testing or because requests are no longer applicable, the approvals module in Power Automate can end up with plenty of requests that do not require action: In this blog we will show you how we can use Power Automate and Dataverse to cancel old requests.

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.eml files with Power Automate

How to recognize .eml files with Power Automate? | Hidden attachments

A couple of weeks back, we posted this article on how to extract the content of a .eml file using Power Automate, but we recently discovered that there are some instances where the approach we explain in the previous blog will not work.  The first approach we presented relies on the Power Automate Outlook trigger to

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Excel

Read Raw Excel Data (unformatted xlsx) using Power Automate | Excel File to SharePoint List

Power Automate has some cool out-of-the-box features to read data from Excel files. But if you want to read this data using these actions, the data needs to be formatted as an actual table in the file and not a flat range – but don’t you worry, Office Scripts got you covered!  With Office scripts

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Query Filter

Ultimate guide to OData query filters for SharePoint in Power Automate

When working with Power Automate and SharePoint lists we usually are in need of extracting specific rows of data from lists, to do so, we need to use the “Query filter” field available in the SharePoint “Get Items” action. OData queries are usually written in the following format:  {InternalColumnName} operator {value}  For example, if we

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