Top 25 Power Automate flow tips and tricks for 2021 - hidden gems and new features

Video is a step-by-step tutorial on my top 25 Microsoft Power Automate flow tips and tricks. Tutorial covers useful flow features & tips like different flow types, flow templates, flow connector suite, best practices around renaming actions and flows, how to copy and paste actions, use scopes for grouping, compose Vs variable conundrum, expression editor, how to enable the new experimental features, generate flow run URL, trigger conditions to avoid flow API calls, use peek code, apply concurrency control to apply to each loop to speed up processing, format numbers, dates and times, convert time zones, error handling, timeouts and flow limits and much more.
My Power Automate flows playlist - • Power Automate (flows)
Reference Blog By John MacDougall: www.powertechtips.com/power-a...
Expression used in video to get the flow run link - concat('us.flow.microsoft.com/manage/...,
workflow()?['tags']?['environmentName'],
'/flows/',
workflow()?['name'],
'/runs/',
workflow()?['run']['name']
)
#PowerAutomate​ #Flow​
Table of Contents:
00:00​ - Intro
00:21 - Tip 1 - Power Automate flow types
03:15 - Tip 2 - Power Automate flow templates
04:19 - Tip 3 - Creating flows in Power Automate
05:24 - Tip 4 - Connectors in Power Automate flows
06:25 - Tip 5 - Renaming actions in flows
08:09 - Tip 6 - Add comments to flow actions
09:27 - Tip 7 - Copy and paste flow actions
10:46 - Tip 8 - Group flow actions using scope
11:28 - Tip 9 - Compose Vs Variables
13:11 - Tip 10 - Power Automate expressions and how to turn on experimental features
14:51 - Tip 11 - Get flow run URL
16:18 - Tip 12 - Power Automate flow trigger conditions
18:24 - Tip 13 - Peek code
19:06 - Tip 14 - Apply to each loop concurrency control
20:58 - Tip 15 - Format number as currency, decimal or custom formats
22:02 - Tip 16 - Date time format and converting time zones in flow
23:44 - Tip 17 - Data operations - Select, Filter, Create csv & html table
25:48 - Tip 18 - Parallel branches in flow
26:25 - Tip 19 - Error handling in Power Automate flows
28:51 - Tip 20 - Flow checker
29:52 - Tip 21 - Test flow runs
30:25 - Tip 22 - Add additional flow Owners
31:38 - Tip 23 - Share flows - Export and Import flows
32:55 - Tip 24 - Flow run duration limit - 30 days
34:06 - Tip 25 - Flow run history - 28 days
34:43 - Bonus Tip - Cloud flows Vs Shared with me
35:07 - Subscribe

[@juansepowerplatform]

This video is a must for everyone creating flows, 30 minutes of pure knowledge. Thank you Reza

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank You

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Agreed this is amazing content

[@danielrumbak2530]

100%

[@Inovators]

Yeah it's really very helpfull

[@lukebrunning4725]

I've learned more in this one video than *everything* else I've read/watched/listened to on Power Automate... thanks Reza!

[@RezaDorrani]

Great to hear! Thank you for watching.

[@paulcrawford1219]

You should have way more views. This really gets into the nuts and bolts of Power Automate, well beyond just tips and tricks. Peek code and concurrent loops as just a couple of thing we all needed to know. Awesome video, and thanks for making it.

[@RezaDorrani]

Wow, thanks!

[@4Dibakar]

In a single video capturing these many important features is awesome.

[@RezaDorrani]

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[@Bekesam]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@headflask]

The flow run link and the trigger conditions really hit the spot. Thank you.

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank You for watching

[@MsAmyrock]

Excellent! I've been using Flow for years and I learned something new!

[@RezaDorrani]

Glad it was useful. Thank you for watching.

[@ashu49]

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[@RezaDorrani]

Thank You

[@larrygleaner1683]

Thanks Reza! I really like the tips & tricks format of this video, and would love to see more like this!

[@RezaDorrani]

More to come! Working on a video on "What's new in flow" next!

[@amitmann6377]

watched your all powerapps videos and started power automate..and starting itself is this GREAT video.

[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

You're most welcome!

[@Worrelpa]

Great Video Reza, lots of useful info, for beginners to pro;s, some I didn't know in there and I have been using Flow since its early days ;). My one tip I would add is in renaming actions. Rename them but leave the action type at the beginning. e.g. Get items - Project items That way you know exactly what type of action it is and what it does / its purpose. I always used to find that having a number of same coloured steps confused me about what type of action it was.

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank you for the feedback and +100 for your tip.

[@cvkealey]

Thank you for providing such a comprehensively useful resource! I have a LOT of folks asking me "how do I get started with Power Automate?" Now I know where to send them! On a slightly different topic, I've been fiddling around with the "Power Automate Management" connector's actions and built a few flows to help inventory and manage my flows (I'm planning to record a video showing how I did that, just waiting to work out some of the bugs). I now have a Microsoft List (called "My Flows") that serves as my master inventory. One bit of information that I haven't found a good way to retrieve is the timestamp of the last run for a given flow. I know I can get that when a flow runs, but that would mean adding a step to all of my flows, some of which run as other users, who don't have permission to my "My Flows" list). I was hoping it would be an output value/property of the "Get flow" action, but it's not. Any ideas?

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank you for the amazing feedback. I have not done much work with the management connectors. Always best to check documentation docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/flowmanagement/#:~:text=Power%20Automate%20Management%20connector%20enables%20interaction%20with%20Power,should%20call%20actions%20with%20the%20%27as%20Admin%27%20suffix. Or Post on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com/

[@gabriellopez505gl]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@alzaimoor79]

indeed very useful tips, trigger condition, speed up apply to each and timeout handling, thanks for sharing.

[@RezaDorrani]

Glad it was helpful!

[@VikasShankarMishra]

One of most informative video on Power Automate , Thanks a lot !!

[@RezaDorrani]

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I always enjoy learning from you. Thank you sir!

[@RezaDorrani]

My pleasure!

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[@RezaDorrani]

Glad to hear that! Thanks so much for watching.

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Hi Reza, a big thank you for this tremendous summary, it helps me a lot, and saves me time. It's also very useful to see how you're using it, your best practices based on your ground experience. ..so it's a very valuable gift you made to us (to me at least) ;-)

[@RezaDorrani]

You're very welcome! Thanks for watching & liking my videos.

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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Thanks Reza. Every time i watch your video, i learn a lot of new things which are very useful.

[@RezaDorrani]

Glad to hear that!

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Thank you Rez... Great video and really helpful!

[@RezaDorrani]

Thanks for watching

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That was awesome videos! great to watch this, there is a lot things I learnt, especially with the additional setting and several setup you have explained. Thank you in advance :)

[@RezaDorrani]

Glad it was helpful!

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[@RezaDorrani]

Thank You for watching

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

Thanks and glad to hear the feedback.

[@AMAlGhazali]

Great video like always.. some of the tips saved my time as I was achieving same results but in difficult ways

[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@rickjameslynn]

excellent video. All helpful and well explained. Thanks!

[@RezaDorrani]

You're welcome!

[@nandansubramanya]

I have been using flow for a while now, did not expect to learn much. I was wrong. Learnt a lot.... I am still on tip 15, and so impressed that I was compelled to leave a comment

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank you for watching and so happy to hear the feedback.

[@anathipretty5414]

Great video Reza ,useful info all the way until the end, Please do videos like this for Power Automate Desktop as well

[@RezaDorrani]

Thanks. I did 1 video on PAD. I have a tips video planned on Power Apps. May be some day I will work on PAD tips.

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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It is a awesome video. I like every tricks a lot especially the error handling part.

[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@dcpowered]

Reza, please make a new version of this video with more tips and tricks! This is extremely useful. Thank you!!

[@RezaDorrani]

Thanks, I will plan to once I have 25 more tips :)

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

It's my pleasure

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

Thank you Arshad

[@davidferrick]

I love the experimental features that allow dynamic content and expressions to be managed a bit easier; however, it is very quirky at times.

[@RezaDorrani]

Its experimental hence quirky :) Waiting for it to go GA.

[@hcneyclouds5642]

I watched this video many times, And will be more to recall many good tips. Please make another versions for good tips like this

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank you for watching it many times. I will plan something on tips and tricks for flows and apps.

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[@RezaDorrani]

Thank You

[@siva65kumar]

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[@manoharreddy2577]

Thank you Reza.. very useful

[@RezaDorrani]

You're welcome 😊

[@heenachhabra2977]

Gem of a video..Thank you so much for these 30 min of sheer knowledge..I was having trouble formatting the HTML table..do you discuss that in any one of your videos..btw the flow URL was an awesome thing that I did not know earlier

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank you for your amazing feedback on this video. HTML full video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJ-6mGB7pN1mbbM

[@hellosubhahere]

first video that addressed concurrent and parallel action executions

[@RezaDorrani]

👍

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Amazing effort Reza , waiting for other videos

[@RezaDorrani]

I have a lot more to come. Currently there are 100+ videos kzbin.infovideos

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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[@RezaDorrani]

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great ambitious video!

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank You

[@eymeeable]

Thank you for the tips, Reza! Please do videos like restricting/deleting a folder when a user uploads a .mov file within a folder.

[@RezaDorrani]

I will add your request to my backlog but this is the first request on this topic. I will need a lot more folks requesting this topic to give it a higher priority.

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Simply awesome 🎉

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank You!

[@vinamrachandra9611]

Thanks Reza. Wonderful compilation. I love the way you present just at the right level (for me) of detail. Anyway I can contribute to your wonderful quest for sharing your knowledge? Also can you share the test workflow you used in the video?

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank You. Best way to contribute is by sharing my content within your networks if the content is worth it. The flow that I used has connections to SharePoint and other data sources. If I share the flow it would break since those lists would have to be created and setup. Some of the work and flows are available to download on my website at - rezadorrani.com/index.php/2021/02/14/power-automate-flow-expressions/

[@vinamrachandra9611]

@@RezaDorrani Thank YOU for wonderful content. I do share with interested people whenever I come across anything good like your posts. I will use the flows available at the link above.

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Reza, I recently discovered your channel and you have helped me a lot. If you ever start a patreon or something similar, I'll definitely be signing up.

[@RezaDorrani]

Welcome and thank you for following my channel. Currently, my KZbin channel is where my focus is on :)

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[@RezaDorrani]

Thank You for your kind words

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Thank you so much for quality content with sheer dedication. You will be remembered forever for your great efforts and help One small doubt how did you formatted html table.

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank You 🙏 HTML Table formatting - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJ-6mGB7pN1mbbM

[@sueamin2788]

Hi Reza: Thank you for this very useful video.

[@RezaDorrani]

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[@sueamin2788]

@@RezaDorrani Many many thanks!

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wow !! very interesting video !!!

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@umeshgaur6960]

Awesome Videos , the way of your explanation is exceptional 👍 I learnt lots from your Powerapps and power automate videos.

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank you so much

[@umeshgaur6960]

@@RezaDorrani Can you please make some videos on custom connector available in GitHub.

[@RezaDorrani]

@@umeshgaur6960 I will once I learn how to do it :)

[@umeshgaur6960]

@@RezaDorrani thank you Reza, I am waiting for it.

[@skumar953]

Good One..Thanks

[@RezaDorrani]

Thanks for watching

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Waah... such videos always make me excited about technologies 😁😁cheers

[@RezaDorrani]

Glad to hear that

[@RPAChampion]

indeed very good tips

[@RezaDorrani]

Glad you like them!

[@wendythiessen3718]

Love the video. I am working on using power automate to delete items from a SharePoint list that are more then a year old and was wondering if you have every done a video for this or if you could do a video for it.

[@RezaDorrani]

I do not have a video reference on this scenario. I will recommend checking on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com/ in case someone has done something similar.

[@rajasekar5069]

Awesome 😎

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@yt25user]

Absolutely loved all tips. Pure Gold. Thank you. Reza, Will you help doing a video about SharePoint & it's UI customisation ?

[@RezaDorrani]

Yes I will in future. I have a lot of ideas so stay tuned :)

[@yt25user]

@@RezaDorrani Thank you

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Thank you Reza

[@RezaDorrani]

Your most welcome

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Thank again

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👍

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Wonderful vedio

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank You

[@zineddine]

Great video Reza, i am sure that i will come back to rewatch this video again and again till these tips become a habit. Question regarding renaming Triger/Action names, how can you tell the original Triger/action name that was renamed?

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank You! Flow currently does not have versioning (coming soon). As of now, no way to tell what the original name was.

[@ArohShukla]

As usual, a great video with fabulous tips.. can you make please video on Power Automate error handling?

[@RezaDorrani]

Thank You. Error handling is covered here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/inSso2p4mJiCodE

[@ArohShukla]

@@RezaDorrani Thanks !

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Thanks