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Read the about page →#PowerPlatformTip 144: Infinite Approvals beyond 30 days
Power Automate approvals time out after 30 days, killing long HR, legal & multi-level sign-offs. Two patterns to run approvals indefinitely, no premium needed.
#PowerPlatformTip 143: Reduce AI Costs with Thumbnail-First Document Processing
TL;DR: Cut AI document-processing costs 70-95% by extracting data from the SharePoint thumbnail first and only processing the full PDF as a fallback. 💡 Challenge AI document-processing costs rose...
#PowerPlatformTip 142: Automate Outlook Categories
Automatically set categories on Outlook meetings with Power Automate, no premium. PATCH events via the Office 365 Outlook 'Send an HTTP request' action.
#PowerPlatformTip 141: Text to Array
TL;DR: Turn a multiline text block into a loopable array in Power Automate with split(text, separator). 💡 Challenge How do you process a copied multiline text block, each line a record (IDs, emai...
#PowerPlatformTip 140: Free Invoice OCR (Process 500 PDFs/Month for €0)
TL;DR: Read and summarize up to 500 PDF invoices/month for free with a free-tier OCR connector plus Azure AI Language summarization. 💡 Challenge Accounts-payable still receives hundreds of PDF in...
#PowerPlatformTip 139: 'Plus Address Tracking'
TL;DR: Add a tag to your sender address with plus addressing (user+tag@domain.com) so every automated email reveals which flow or system sent it, no extra licensing or infrastructure. 💡 Challenge...
#PowerPlatformTip 138: 'Graph API via HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID'
Call Microsoft Graph in Power Automate without app registrations or secrets, use the preauthorized 'HTTP with Microsoft Entra ID' action. No OAuth setup.
#PowerPlatformTip 137: 'SharePoint Lists Folder Permissions'
TL;DR: Enable folders in your SharePoint list’s Advanced Settings, create one folder per department, and set permissions at the folder level, every item inside inherits them automatically, with no ...
#PowerPlatformTip 136: 'Patch Coalesce Upsert'
TL;DR: Do upsert in Power Apps with one Patch(Source, Coalesce(LookUp(...), Defaults(Source)), {...}), update or create in a single call. 💡 Challenge In Power Apps, keeping separate logic branche...
#PowerPlatformTip 135: 'One Flow, Many Users'
TL;DR: Make one Power App the trigger hub for your shared flows and send Adaptive Cards that link to it, every user runs the flow in their own context, with no per-user permissions or duplicate flo...
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