Tag Archives: Dynamics 365 Power Automate

How to Read URL Parameters from URL using uriQuery() function in Power Automate

Introduction In this blog, we will see how to read the parameter from the URL in Power Automate. For example, let’s take the below URL: https://inogic.com?EmpId=1&EmpName=JohnThomas Here, we have passed Employee Id and Employee Name in the web URL and now we have to get those two parameters from URL. There is one inbuilt function… Read More »

How to Find Next Month and Previous Month using Power Automate within Dynamics 365 CRM

Introduction In this blog, we are checking how we can calculate the next/previous month’s date time from today’s date time or calculate the next/previous month’s date time from the selected date. There is no direct way or predefined function to calculate the next/previous month in Power Automate. However, we can achieve this process using the… Read More »

How to set Owner field dynamically using Power Automate CDS Connector (Current Environment)

Introduction We previously experienced How to set or map null values in the Lookup Field using Power Automate CDS Connector. Let us explore How to set the Owner field dynamically using Power Automate. Scenario: On the Contact entity, there exists an owner field and we want to set the same owner (which can be a user… Read More »

How to set or map null value in Lookup Field using Power Automate CDS Connector (Current Environment)

Introduction Power Automate is a powerful business application that allows the user to create and automate workflows across multiple applications and services without developers’ help. In this blog, we will explore how to set a lookup field as null while mapping the Lookup field with another record’s lookup field which has null value. We can… Read More »

Text Functions Action in Power Automate within Dynamics 365

Introduction Whenever we want to extract part of a string, a common question comes to mind -how do we achieve this? In Power Automate, previously we used to write some expression manually like split, substring and so on. But now, in the recent update of Power Automate, it now gives you prebuilt actions for text/string… Read More »

Power Automate: Send an email using the Email Template – Part 2

Introduction In our last blog, we saw how we could create Power Automate Flow to send an email using the Email Template. We used “SendEmailFromTemplate” action to send a single email. Now, in this blog, we will see how we can send bulk email messages using the Email Template. Let us say, we want to… Read More »

Power Automate: Send an email using the Email Template – Part 1

Introduction During an online conference with Power Platform experts, a technical enthusiast asked the forum, “What options do we have for emailing using the template on specific events/actions in Dynamics CRM?” A panelist answered, “We have a classic workflow with ‘Send Email’ and ‘Use Template’ action or a Plugin with ‘InstantiateTemplate’ and ‘SendEmail’ requests for… Read More »

Power Automate Flows now available from within Business Process Flows

Business Process Flow helps business visualize their process flow on the Dynamics 365 CRM records and see the progress and the current status of the record along the process. Business processes often require automation of certain actions upon achieving certain stages of the process. With this in mind Microsoft included the ability to invoke. 1.… Read More »

Creating Activities using Power Automate Flows now possible!

Introduction Power Automate is the next big thing for Microsoft as it helps to perform automated actions and operations without requiring pro-dev capabilities. The power of the flow however, depends on how comprehensive the connectors are. Microsoft has been working to enhance its connectors for Dynamics 365 CRM. This journey started with the release of… Read More »