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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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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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Get content of a file attached in an email’s .eml attachment (nested attachments)

Quite recently we were working with the Accounts Payable team to automatically grab invoices received from suppliers and save them in a SharePoint site, we were using the regular “For each attachment”, “Attachment content” and then “Create file” actions in Power Automate for most vendors, until we found one vendor who did not attached their

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Create long-running approval requests in Power Automate (override 28-days timeout)

Sending approval requests is one of the most common use cases for which Power Automate is used for. After all, the out-of-the-box connector for approvals has a limitation: if the approval request is not approved or rejected within 28 days, the action will time out and this will cause your flow to fail. In this

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Power Automate licensing explained (Updated 2024)

One of the most read articles on our Power GI website is on Power Automate licensing structure. But a lot has changed since we first wrote it, so we decided to write a new blog with the most recent updates. If you’re here, most likely you have already come across Power Automate either Cloud or Desktop

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Use MySQL views from Power Automate and Power Apps

If you have worked on a Power Platform project that needs connections to MySQL, then you might have noticed views are not listed when browsing the catalogue of a MySQL database. In this blog post we bring you a quick trick on how to successfully retrieve data from MySQL views from both Power Automate and

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Update connection references in a Managed solution – Power Platform

A connection reference, a key component in a solution, contains vital information about credentials used to connect to a Power Platform connector. During the import of a managed solution into an environment, users face a choice: selecting an existing connection or creating a new one. It’s crucial to note that, once a managed solution is

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Power Automate Desktop

How to upload files to SharePoint from Power Automate Desktop?

When we are using Power Automate Desktop to download files from the web, it’s a very common use case to want to upload them to a SharePoint site. There are two ways to achieve this, depending on if you have a Power Automate Premium account or if you don’t.  Content Option 1. You have a

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Date pickers in Power Automate Desktop

Date pickers can behave differently from page to page, and populating this control type from Power Automate Desktop can get tricky. Did you know most date pickers also have an text input control that is easier to use compared to year/month/day selectors? – We gathered 3 examples from different web pages and we show you how to automate them

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