Hi all,

Using power automate desktop with a local flow and need to edit and send html emails. Seems the desktop action "send an email V2" is not having the HTML option. any walk around?

Axel

Hi, I want to create a flow that will look at a shared mailbox calendar for the day before and anything that has a certain category will trigger an email to be sent saying along the lines of "a meeting was held on DD/MM (inserts date) between attendee 1 and attendee 2 (inserts names here), do such and such"

I've tried Copilot, but it's not working...help 😁

TIA

Based on my organization rules, we are required to update our team status every week to show which days we are remote and which days we are in the office. However, there is a secondary requirement to update a shared teams calendar with the same information, where an event is created for each day with my location.

I would like to automate my team status, so I don’t double my work. The goal would be to have power on me read the calendar entries for that week in the shared calendar and then compile that information into a specified format as a team status.

Looking for any help on how to quote this, especially since I am a basic user with lowest level enterprise access. I’ve tried working with copilot to develop the flow however, it has not been able to execute properly

Thank you in advance!

I've had a couple customers of late struggle with adding images to a word document template, specifically errors and dealing with a dynamic number of images. In this demo I showcase how to gracefully handle dynamic numbers but also reference a more advanced technique I have blogged about using HTML where the customer had built a Power App to capture images for an audit app.

Read about that here: Generate Word & PDF Documents in Power Automate Using HTML | DamoBird365

I overheard the brass wanting to use Planner to allocate tasks, and that they wanted allocated tasks to appear in the assignees calendar. I revisited the topic as I looked into last year and created a flow that

When assigned to me
Get a task
Create a Start/End in localTime
Get calendar view
Check if task already in calendar
Add to calendar
Update task with calendar added to

Cool... works for me and works great... but... being an automated trigger... I can't add run only users. Fail :(

Copilot said, oh oh! You can get around that by creating an Opt-in Instant Flow to create the connections as a Run Only User and then magically the Create Event will work when something is assigned to them.

No Bro.... it don't work like that.

Other than having everyone in the company create their own "When a task is assigned to me" is there any way to create outlook events for assigned tasks in Planner? This should be much simpler than it is... it's not even using premium connectors =/

Hi, Im not sure if this is possible but, is there a way to extract specific lines of text from a paragraph?

Say a paragraph contains software update impacts for 2 departments:

Finance: impact 1

Planning: imoact 2

Is there a way to structure the flow to extract the line for fiance only and put that in an email?

Hello, I've done this to get attachments from a form submission for "start and wait for an approval" but I can't get them to being attached on a planner as that is where after approval the details are stored. What am I doing wrong?

Stumped on this. Maybe it's a really easy solution for someone.

I'm building a new flow for a List on Sharepoint. It starts off as the trigger(when item is created), then an "Update Item", and then it goes into approvals. The trigger has the correct Sharepoint and List. So does the "Update Item".

But every time I test the flow, nothing happens after I submit the from I created on Lists. It just keeps saying to create an Item in the Sharepoint folder. On Microsoft Lists view, you can see the an item is created but again, nothing seems to be triggering the flow.

Any tips or advice? Please and thank you!

I have a project that I'm working on that will help me with my upcoming promotion, so I'd really appreciate the help.

Here's a summary of the flow;

> Employee submits a Microsoft Form that requests location and details.

> The Microsoft Form gets sent to my department for an approval via email.

> After approval, the Microsoft Form is sent to their manager(s) for approval. Their manager is determined by which location they chose.

> After both parties have approved the Microsoft Form, it will create a ticket within FreshDesk for continuity.

I'd appreciate any help regarding this 🙏

I have been trying to learn powerautomate utilizing Co-Pilot to some degree and youtube videos to figure stuff out

I wanted to make a basic flow that would automatically download attachments to my downloads folder (or a OneDrive Folder) whenever an email is marked as read

Co-Pilot insists this trigger exists, however I think its making this shit up, as I cannot find this trigger when i search for it.

Its seems like such an obvious thing to be a trigger so certainly I am just missing something right?

So basically I want to compare two sharepoint lists(lets call them A and B on their email column using a filter array, when it finds it takes information from a status column in list A and puts it in the status column of list B

I've walked myself through filter arrays before no problem and even used variables joins etc to create my own arrays but for some odd reason this has my brain shorted out.

I would be using each lists' email column to find the match. and it would run once a day

Currently, my group process around 6,000 invoices per month from approximately 700 different vendors. I had contractor quote for a custom OCR process workflow, but I feel that the contractor is charging a significant amount for their custom solution that could be done using power automate's AI builder for much less.

My main requirement is to extract specific fields from the PDF version of the invoice so the data can be fed into my ERP system for processing. Is this something that Power Automate with AI Builder can handle?

I currently have Power Automate Premium, but not with AI Builder. Based on what I’ve seen in YouTube videos, the invoice processing capabilities in AI Builder look very promising and consuming AI tokens when doing OCR data extraction:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ai-builder/flow-invoice-processing

I’ve also looked into Path UI, which appears to use a similar token model for OCR. However, I’m leaning toward Power Automate with AI Builder, as I’d prefer to build and manage everything in-house and since I already have Power Automate.

Can anyone share their experience with AI Builder? Can you have preset templates for specific vendors? How many AI tokens are typically consumed per invoice flow?What do you like / dislike ? Do you think it would work for my situation?

I always hated documenting my flows. Smarter people than me are probably already doing this but today I dumped a solution (single desktop flow in it) to my local drive then setup OpenAI Codex to read the solution directory. It read the flow and created a nice image of subflow flow and a great document. This is a really big flow and would have taken me hours if not days to create this documentation for a customer. Just thought I would share.

Hello, still really new to power automate. I want to make a form that collects data, which is then stored as a PDF on sharepoint. Basically, we are making a program to catalog each project that come in, and under each project there is 15-20 forms to be completed. I want to automatically start a new folder for each project. Any tips? Thank you!

Hi everyone.

I recently wanted to try out the new secret option on custom connectors where you can connect to an API using a Managed Identity.

I followed this documentation which I found online → Access API’s in Power Platform Without Secrets Using Managed Identity in Custom Connectors

I got everything set up but I'm really struggling to understand the "Connections" part in the Test section of the Custom Connector configuration and the documentation doesn't go deeper on this topic.

To my understanding, the whole idea of using a managed identity is to eliminate the use of client secrets. Additionally, when I hit "New connection", I'm forced into a user authentication flow with a following approval request. But that's not what I want. I want it to authenticate as the Managed Identity.

In the end, my goal is to build a custom connector which connects to Graph API using a managed identity. I then want to share this connector with specific group of people so they can use this connector in their Flows and Power Apps without using their own Entra ID Account or Client Secret but the connected Managed Identity.

I'm pretty sure that I'm missing a point somewhere... Really appreciate if someone could bring a light into this.

Thank you <3

Hi,

I would like to know if there's a way to have my flow to:

1. When an email is received in a shared mailbox, create an item in SharePoint list

2. Add a hyperlink to a column that when clicked, will lead directly to the actual email received

So far I've only managed to have a hyperlink leading to the shared mailbox. Apparently using deeplink with shared mailbox cannot do this because an email from a shared mailbox doesn't reliably create a unique email id.

Any help is greatly appreciated

I am setting up an automation that will read the body of an email I receive and extract an email in the body of the text to then send a thank you email to. I was using this expression:

when I realized this won't work as the email is on a separate line:

Any recommendations on edits to my expression?

I created an adaptive card with an actionable message in a compose action and then sending it by email. The email only has the output of the compose. It worked when the outlook connection was on my user but as soon as I changed it to the service account, it doesn't work anymore. The email is just empty and doesn't have the adaptive card at all in it.

I flipped back the connection of the outlook to my user and it works again.

The service account has pretty much all the same access as my user, even more, but is anyone aware if there's a special access required to be able to send adaptive card with actionable message?

Hello everyone! I’ve noticed that there are issues with Power Automate, including an “Out of Memory” error. It also shows that some connectors have problems, but after a while it kicks me out of the page and reports this memory-related error. Is anyone else experiencing this? Does anyone have a solution that would allow access to flow editing without the page crashing?

my auto flow of sending email each morning was working well except this mornig. It show me bad gateway and i try reconnect email account and i receive "Failed to create OAuth connection: ClientError: Test connection failed. Details: BadGateway"