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  • Access Graph API with application account – my ultimate guide
    The Microsoft Graph API is just another, extremely useful API, that can be used in variety of automations within the whole Microsoft 365 ecosystem. I am quite often using it with Logic Apps processes, that are running on application permissions.
  • Access SharePoint API with application account – my ultimate guide
    I have been struggling with this topic for some time. Almost every time, when I was supposed to work with SharePoint API in Power Apps or Logic Apps, I was googling and going through the same partial solutions.
  • ChildFlowNeverPublished
    Have you faced this issue when trying to turn on a child flow, that you deployed to another environment? I think I found a solution!
  • Migrating Nintex repeating section to Power Apps
    In 2026 Microsoft will turn off SharePoint add-ons and workflows. This will put many Nintex customers on the crossroad – whether to move to Nintex Automation Cloud or to Power Platform.
  • Managing Power Apps Offline Access with M365 Security Groups
    This post is a result of a challenge I faced sometime ago during a project, which goal was creation of a Power App using offline capabilities.
  • Replace special characters using Power Automate
    Have you ever faced it? A system, that accepts just international characters while users input local ones, like Polish? Or Spanish? Well, Power Automate is here to help them get replaced!
  • Unlock and lock Excel spreadsheet using Office Script
    I was recently trying to use Power Automate to write to an Excel worksheet, when I found out that the file is password protected. I was trying to find any action to let me unlock it, but I failed. After some research I realized this can be done using the power of Office Scripts!
  • Save XML data to SharePoint list dynamically
    In my previous post I was describing a solution to provision SharePoint lists dynamically and also to set their permissions. However, I want to share as well the solution that will let you to create list items using XML data.
  • Provisioning SharePoint Online list using another one as a template
    In this blog post I would like to share with you a cool solution I have recently built for my customer, that allows dynamic creation of lists based on existing templates, together with setting all needed metadata and permissions.
  • Power Platform Pipelines pre-deployment approval flow
    Some time ago I have recorded a video about using the pre-deployment actions in Power Platform Pipelines. These actions would allow you to create e.g. approval workflow. In this post I am describing actions, that the mentioned workflow is using.
  • Direct link to Power Automate approval task
    This one is going to be short. Sometimes you may need to send a user a direct link to their approval task in Power Automate approvals. Here it is!
  • Upgrading Power Automate Desktop to v2 schema
    The announced with the February 2023 release, new Microsoft Dataverse schema for storing Power Automate Desktop data, so called “v2”, requires all desktop flows to be upgraded by Q1 2024. I did this already and faced several challenges, that I would like to share with you.
  • Create SharePoint list item in a folder using SPO REST API
    With this post I would like to share with you how to easily create an item on a list, but not directly along with other items, but inside a subfolder.
  • Copy task attachments to list item attachments
    In this short post I will help you to build your Nintex for Office 365 workflow that will allow you to copy attachments that were added to a task to a related list item attachments. The list item is of course the one around which the whole workflow is running.
  • Power Platform tasks reassignment – permissions
    This post directly refers to my latest video, where I am describing the missing steps required to really successfully reassign a task to a regular Environment Maker using Power Automate cloud flows and approvals’ data stored in Microsoft Dataverse.
  • Star rating control in Adaptive Cards
    The rating control in Adaptive Cards was on a roadmap. Long time ago. However, no updates were published and still no such control is available oob. Despite that, it is still possible to build a star rating, maybe not the perfect one, but working one for sure.
  • Access to element shared through link results with access denied in SharePoint Online
    I have faced to day a very bizarre situation when I was trying to share an element within a SharePoint Online library, with a user who didn’t have access to the site at all. After the element was shared, user was getting access denied unless was added to “Members” permission group.
  • How to mention tags, users, channels and teams using Power Automate
    In this post I would like to share with you my latest findings about the ways you can mention actually anything in Microsoft Teams in messages sent from Power Automate, whether it is a user, a tag, a channel or a team.
  • Embed images in emails from Power Automate Desktop
    I had a case recently, that the mail sent from Power Automate Desktop must’ve had images displayed within the body. However, no such option is available from user interface. Still, it is possible!
  • Timeouts in Actionable Messages
    This post was inspired by a message that Sergi Dominquez sent me on Twitter. It turns out, that when a request from Actionable Message in Outlook is sent to a server, Outlook waits only a specific amount of time for the response.
  • Showing and hiding content in Adaptive Cards
    In Adaptive Cards there are multiple ways to show and hide content depending on other content or conditions, or even user interaction. But despite that most of them is available since the version 1.2 (so quite early) it requires a bit of knowledge how to actually implement them.
  • Troubleshooting Power Automate Desktop error codes
    I am working with Power Automate Desktop for more than a year now. Over that time I faced a lot of weird errors that were occurring somewhere between cloud flows I used to trigger RPA and the bots themselves. Let me help you understand where are they coming from and how to resolve them (or create workaround).
  • Filter Excel table using Power Automate Desktop
    In this post I will show you how you can filter data inside a table in Microsoft Excel.
  • Display images in Adaptive Cards
    Images always enricher Adaptive Cards designs. However in Microsoft Teams max. message payload is just 25KB and that includes also the size of card’s JSON. Therefore it is very often not possible to display even the smallest image inline. What other options we have?
  • How to automatically complete approval tasks in Power Automate and Microsoft Teams
    When writing my previous post on working with Tasks in Power Automate I realized existence of a column name Flow Notification URI inside of Flow Approval table, which I so far really underestimated. Let me show you how powerful it is!
  • Working with approval tasks in Dataverse
    This post is inspired by some recent talks I have delivered. I will describe you deeply how approval tasks are organized in Microsoft Dataverse and what can we do with them.
  • Independent Publisher connector step by step
    After I have successfully published and got certified with my first connector in the Independent Publisher connectors program (myStrom connector), I decided to share my journey and experiences with you, so that you can as well share your work with the whole world!
  • How 3 makers, 2 devs and a princess came together to save kittens for a hackathon
    This is a re-post of the summary we wrote as a team after participating in hackathon during the South Coast Summit this year. The event was epic. The hackathon even more. Enjoy! The app and more details about our solution can be found here: https://github.com/LuiseFreese/HackSouthCoastSummit/.
  • The query string \”comment\” is missing or invalid.
    I was seeing this kind of error in Nintex for Office 365 workflows for some time, but actually never had enough determination to check what is the root cause. However when customer started asking, I started digging.
  • Access denied to a site despite permissions are granted
    Recently I faced an odd situation, that user was complaining that they have access denied to the site, even though when I was checking their permissions, SharePoint was displaying, that they do have “Contribute” access level granted.