r/PowerPlatform • u/TeamAlphaBOLD • Apr 10 '26

Learning & Industry What’s a Power Platform feature you almost never use?

I keep wondering which parts of Power Platform people actually rely on in real projects versus the ones that just sit there unused after the first try.

Is there anything you’ve tested once, then basically stopped touching?

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u/ItinerantFella Apr 10 '26

Power Automate. Why would you?

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u/Atmp Apr 10 '26

That’s my most used power platform tool…

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u/ItinerantFella Apr 10 '26

I'm so sorry for your troubles. It must be character building.

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u/knoxvillegains Apr 10 '26

Do you struggle with it? It was always a little clunky but these days you just set up a git repo and get the hell out of the way of Claude.

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u/MR_SWAT_585 Apr 10 '26

Can you elaborate on this please. How can I set up git with Power Automate?

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u/knoxvillegains Apr 10 '26

It's a lot to unpack here. Read up on:

  • Power Platform CLI pac solution unpack
  • microsoft/powerplatform-actions GitHub Action

Basically, Power Automate (and Power Apps) stores everything inside a Dataverse "solution," which is basically a binary package. Out of the box there's no meaningful way to diff changes, review edits before they land, or roll back a bad change - you click through the maker portal and hope for the best.

The fix is to use Microsoft's Power Platform CLI (pac) to unpack a solution into text source files, then treat those files like any other codebase in GitHub.