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Reference Material How to put SVG code in an image object:  https://www.matthewdevaney.com/svg-images-in-power-apps/#How-Do-I-Add-SVG-Icons-To-Power-Apps Figma - Microsoft Office Icons: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1109502320071552607 Figma - 1600 free icons: https://www.figma.com/community/file/886554014393250663/Free-Icon-Pack-1600%2B-icons Figma - Adobe Icons: https://www.figma.com/community/file/834829738797323395/Adobe-Icons   Steps Step 1: Search figma for icons (some examples above) Step 2: Copy icon as SVG Step 3: Paste SVG code in notepad and Replace all " with ' Step 4: Paste into image object in Canvas app "data:image/svg+xml;utf8, "&EncodeUrl(" SVG CODE YOU ADJUSTED IN NOTEPAD ")

What Environment Variables are a great way to manage your solutions as they pass through DEV/TEST/PROD environments.  They save having to manually update flows/apps during each change and test iteration. However there is a gotcha to understand when you're planning your next migration or app update. More on Environment Variables | Microsoft Learn Why The two issues I faced using Environment Variables were due to the ' Current Value '. Issue #1 : If you don't want the value you used in DEV to push through to TEST/PROD, you need to remove the 'Current Value' from your solution BEFORE exporting it. If this is not done, and you're migrating as a  managed  solution, the 'Current Value' will flow through to your TEST environment, and cannot be changed because the solution is locked down. When a single sentence in an MS Learn article can cause so much pain... Issue #2 : If you're like me and you realised this AFTER you'd already imported into another...

Thought I'd add a fancy AI-generated blog header from Microsoft Designer while we're here ! Problem Had a Power Automate Flow that would grab a document from a document library and PDF it.   Needed to make the 'Document Library' field dynamic as the workflow was moving between DEV/TEST/PROD environments inside a Managed Solution  Putting the Name of the document library in that field was not working. How What you need to input into that field, is what's called the 'Drive ID' of the document library.  Which is not immediately available without making a HTTP Call.  So do this to get the drive ID of the specific library you're after: Code for each step Filter Array FROM value:  body('Send_an_HTTP_request_to_SharePoint_-_Get_Library_Metadata')['body']['value'] Filter Array Advanced Code : equals(item()?['name'], 'NAME OF DOCUMENT LIBRARY') Document Library Field Code : first(body('Filter_array_-_Get_DOCX_DriveID...

Wanted to provide a few Power Automate tips and tricks when using expressions and also when using Dataverse Connections. Replace semi-colons with commas  Useful when working with Choice Fields replace(outputs('Get_a_row_from_Dataverse Table')?['body/ChoiceField'],';',',')   If field is empty, show NA Useful when populating an email/document with values and you don't want the fields to have blank values. if(empty(outputs('Get_a_row_from_Dataverse Table')?['body/ChoiceField']),'N/A',outputs('body/ChoiceField'])   If a boolean value is true, show YES Useful for making the wording inside emails/documents make more sense to a human! if(outputs('Get_a_row_from_Dataverse Table')?['body/BooleanField'],'Yes','No')   If a boolean is true different method for certain scenarios if(equals(outputs('Get_a_row_from_Dataverse Table')?['body/BooleanField'],true),'Ye...

Want a morning news feed focussed on Power Platform updates, without getting bogged down with all the various other updates Microsoft send out? Wait no more.  Presenting, the MS Teams channel with Power Updates. How? All you need is: RSS URLs to each of Microsoft's Power Platform Blogs (provided below) A MS Teams Channel to post to 5 Flows (I promise, it's easier than it sounds) Details Solution Build a solution to store your flows together.  You need one flow for each RSS flow. Flow x 5 Each Flow only has two steps! Steps expanded: The RSS Feed URL's: Power Apps: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/feed/ Flow: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/feed/ Power BI: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/feed/ Power Pages: https://powerpages.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/feed/ Power Virtual Agents: https://powervirtualagents.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/feed/ Adaptive Card code The hardest part is the Adaptive Card code, you can build a customised card yourself here:  https...

This post shows how you can hide a button inside a PowerApp unless you are a member of a specific O365 Group Why A lot of PowerApps we build these days have two audiences: The person filling out a form The team managing the process The person filling out the form really only needs to do one thing.  Fill out a form, and trust it's been sent to the right people. The team managing the process may have a review & approval process that they don't want regular staff to see.  They may have Power BI reports or other screens that should be kept private. I am going to show you how you can hide these buttons & screens so that they are only accessible if you are a member of an Office 365 Group. How 1. Create Office 365 Group & get ID First we need an Office 365 Group that we are a member of, and we need to retrieve it's ID.  Here's another post on how to get the ID:  How to Quickly find the GUID of a O365 Group 2. We are going to create 2 buttons...

Using DateTime fields from SharePoint can be a royal PITA.  Here's the simplest way I've found to do a quick conversion from UTC time to AUS time. What Using Flow, when you pull dates from a SharePoint list, even if they look right in SharePoint, they come out wrong in Flow. Why SharePoint Lists store DateTime values in UTC format behind the scenes in the database.  This means even if you have Regional Settings set up in SharePoint to show the correct DateTime in the list, when you pull the data out using other applications, it spits out in UTC. We want to fix that. How The expression I use to quickly convert the timezone AND format it to the correct dd/mm/yyyy format is ConvertTimeZone() . This function expects the following information: ConvertTimeZone(DateTimeString, SourceTimeZone, DestinationTimeZone, Format) Here's an example I've used in an Email Action in Flow: convertTimeZone(triggerBody() ?[ 'DateTimeFromSharePoint' ], 'UTC'...