Be more productive by using Inline Code in your Azure Logic App

[@tejasn3835]

Great tutorial. Simple, Direct and to the point!

[@fboucheros]

Much appreciated!

[@chasegiltner4848]

Thanks for the tutorial. Clear information and got me what I needed.

[@sammybhashetty6578]

Hello, thanks for the wonderful information videos sir. I do have a small question for you. I have an excel sitting on a SharePoint site and I need to update the same excel to capture the modified by email alias of the people who update that file though SharePoint. Any suggestions would be of great help.

[@fboucheros]

Have a look to the Excel connector docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/connectors/connectors-create-api-excel or do it by code in an Azure Function

[@cparker4486]

Can you use a variable in the Inline Code action? It doesn't seem possible.

[@fboucheros]

today, you cannot use the value of variables initialized outside the Inline Code. You only have access to the trigger and other "regular" actions.

[@cparker4486]

@@fboucheros That's what I was afraid of. Despite my excitement for this new feature (I asked them for this a looong time ago so it was awesome to discover it) it's not super valuable to me yet. :( Thanks for your response and good video!

[@cparker4486]

I heard a suggestion from the team to use the Compose action as a workaround. Assign the variable value to the compose action and then insert the compose result into the inline code action.

[@kestaskuliukas5296]

I wanted to use a regex inside a logic app so found I had to spin up an integration account. Checked back a week later and we've spent $200 on the lowest type of integration account.

[@fboucheros]

Yea, integration account is for serious integration stuff, a bit like Biztalk server. I would suggest to create a simple Azure Function in consumption and call it from your Logic App.

[@kestaskuliukas5296]

@@fboucheros But this is a guide to using inline code in your logic apps, and it guides you thought creating something like a biz talk server?

[@davidhow6911]

Inline Code has a limit of 1024 characters, which makes it kind of useless

[@fboucheros]

The inline code is for simple things. You should create an Azure Function if you need more. It will also be easier to test/debug/ maintain. The Inline was really just for when you just need to do a little something.