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Category: Expressions

How to calculate difference between two times in Power Automate

Posted on February 6, 2022April 6, 2022 by Tom

“I’ve got two times, the task start time and end time, how do I calculate a difference in minutes or hours with Power Automate?”

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Why is Power Automate sending an HTML table even when it’s empty?

Posted on January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 by Tom

“I use Power Automate to send emails with HTML table, but it keeps sending them even when the table is empty, how can I avoid that?”

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How to display date in your local language with Power Automate

Posted on January 2, 2022January 2, 2022 by Tom

“Power Automate gives me always the day and month name in English, is there some way how to convert the date to my local language?”

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Most common reasons for an invalid expression in Power Automate

Posted on December 26, 2021December 26, 2021 by Tom

“Power Automate tells me that “The expression is invalid” but it doesn’t tell me what’s wrong, how can I fix it?”

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How to split string by the first space in Power Automate

Posted on December 15, 2021December 19, 2021 by Tom

“My string has the data after an id number and a space, how can I split it by the first space and process only the data with Power Automate?”

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How to format numbers (currency, percentage,…) in Power Automate

Posted on December 5, 2021April 6, 2022 by Tom

“I’m using Power Automate to send an email with proposal after it’s approved, but the numbers format for price and percentage look terrible.”

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Get previous value(s) of SP multiple selection columns in Power Automate

Posted on November 28, 2021March 21, 2022 by Tom

“The previously described solution works fine, but Power Automate returns an error on a multiple selection columns, how can I fix it?”

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Stop Power Automate flow from adding ‘Apply to each’ automatically

Posted on November 21, 2021January 28, 2022 by Tom

“Sometimes when I use specific dynamic content, Power Automate adds the ‘Apply to each’ action automatically, how can I stop it?”

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Change the name of SharePoint list ‘from template’ with Power Automate

Posted on November 17, 2021February 20, 2022 by Tom

“You create the new list from template but it is creating it with the same name, if it already exists Power Automate won’t create a new one.”

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Export Planner task status as text instead of percentage (Power Automate)

Posted on November 14, 2021November 14, 2021 by Tom

“Power Automate allows me to get the Planner task progress as a percentage rather than as ‘Not started’, ‘In progress’, or ‘Completed’ text.”

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My name is Tom and I'm a business process automation consultant and Microsoft MVP living in the Czech Republic. I’ve been working with Microsoft technologies for almost 10 years, currently using mainly Power Automate, SharePoint, Teams, and the other M365 tools.

I believe that everyone can automate part of their work with the Power Automate platform. You can achieve a lot by "clicking" the flows in the designer, but you can achieve much more if you add a bit of coding knowledge. And that's what this blog is about.

To make the step from no-code Power Automate flows to low-code flows: using basic coding knowledge to build more complex yet more efficient flows to automate more of your daily tasks.

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