Power Automate Tips

Power automate is an amazing and powerful tool. It is nothing like workflows available with SharePoint on premise. If you have not made the switch or tried this yet, you are in for a big surprise! Power Automate isn't just about SharePoint there are endless other services you can connect with to simplify tasks you do. Be careful you may Power Automate yourself right out of a job! So from my experience with it so far here are five helpful tips:

• Take advantage of the SCOPE control. Use this for large sections to group them together, it will act as an expand collapse.

• Naming of flow parts are very important. If you cannot name a section so that it acts like a code comment, then add in a comment.
  

• Peek the code! Your code isn't working, what is going on? Use peek the code to look at flows that are working and aren't working.
  

• Terminate Control paired with Testing! At the top right corner you will see a beaker and the word Test, use your test often while creating your flow. You can also throw in a terminate control that will basically end the flow so you don't have to keep testing certain sections.
  

• Configure Run After. Take advantage of this option. You can set basic failure emails; so a flow that might fail due to network outages won't alarm users until you have tested the breakage. Configure Run After basically can creates an if / else that will capture a failure. If a section fails set an email to send; if the email doesn't run then move to the next section.