Category Archives: Microsoft Flow

Leveraging SendEmailFromTemplate to Send Emails to Unresolved Addresses

Introduction While working on Dynamics 365 CE we often need to streamline communication processes using Power Automate. While we want to send emails to our customer, one effective way to do this is by using email templates. Email templates streamline the communication process by providing users with a standardized framework for creating emails, ensuring brand consistency and saving time. These… Read more »

Easy Fix for -“It is of type ‘Null’ but is expected to be a value…”- Power Automate

Problem While working with Switch control in Power Automate, if the field used in the switch control is blank we will get this error:- “It is of type ‘Null’ but is expected to be a value of type ‘String, Integer” I am going to share one possible way of handling which I used, if you have a better way please… Read more »

Dynamics 365 CE Date Conversion in Power Automate

Problem Recently while working on Power Automate to send notification if custom activity record is completed before 15 day but still invoicing is not done yet, I was facing time zone issue while comparing date. I will provide details how I sold this issue. Solution Initially I started creating my flow where I used Recurrence and fetched my entity records… Read more »

Update entity from Canvas App with Power Automate

Introduction This is third article about using Bing maps in Canvas app. In earlier articles we discussed about how we can show event organizer data in the gallery control and render them in the Bing maps. Today we are going to discuss how to update entity data from canvas app. Canvas app with Bing Maps in Dynamics 365 CE –… Read more »

Canvas app with Bing Maps in Dynamics 365 CE -2

Introduction This is second article about using Bing maps in Canvas app. In the first article we discussed about how we can show event organizer data in the gallery control and render them in the Bing maps. In this article we are going to show event as well as event organization details in Bing maps. Details In last app we… Read more »

Getting Share Point Document URL in Dynamics 365 CE

Introduction Sometime we required to get full path of the image which we have uploaded to Share Point document for specific entity. In this article I am going to demonstrate how Microsoft Flow can be used to implement this requirement. Feel free to comment if there is another easy of doing this. This article is assuming you have basic understanding… Read more »

Copy Share Point Document From One Entity to Another

Introduction In earlier article we discussed how we can create Document Location Record using Flow, now let’s say if after creating document location record we also wants to copy document from one entity to another, in our case we are creating contact from account and let’s say we want tot copy Share Point document from accounts to contact. In this… Read more »

SharePoint integration for Work Order- Part 2

Introduction Recently while working on Field Service project, we got requirement to setup SharePoint integration where customer wanted to use Folder stricture based on the Account entity. By default entity based folder structure is not supported for work order entity so we used Flow to implement this requirement. This is our second article, please check first article before reading this… Read more »

SharePoint integration for Work Order- Part 1

Introduction Recently while working on Field Service project, we got requirement to setup SharePoint integration where customer wanted to use Folder stricture based on the Account entity. By default entity based folder structure is not supported for work order entity so we used Flow to implement this requirement, in this article we are going to discuss the same. Requirement Implement… Read more »

Dynamics 365 CE and Azure Function Part 5

Introduction This is our last article in the series of Dynamics 365 and Azure function integration. In earlier articles, we discuss how we can delete blob storage after our azure function trigger executed. Now we are going to discuss how can we trigger azure function from Microsoft Flow. You can refer our earlier articles from following links Dynamics 365 CE… Read more »