Marcel Lehmann

How I automated our (internal) community

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to build a self-contained and automated (internal) PowerPlatform community in just a few steps. New members will receive a welcome email and an adaptive card with a question about preferences (tags) around PowerPlatform. In addition, all group members receive a quarterly request for their preferences, so that they […]
Power Automate Update Event via Graph API avoid duplicate email notifications from Damien Bird

For me, Damien Bird is often an inspiration, as well as a real help with very specific things. Here Damien shows how to update an event with new participants without each user receiving an email with the updates (new participant has been added) every time. A few months ago I had exactly this request internally, […]
Extract HTML Table from Email in Power Automate from Damien Bird

Interesting how you can split a complete html table using xml within powerautomate. Also the reference to xpather.com to test the XML there. You can see this video here on my blog because I have rated this video with 5 stars in my Youtube video library. This video was automatically posted using PowerAutomate.
Mention users in Teams Channel via Power Automate – MS Forms or Power Apps – Employee Recognition from Damien Bird

It’s exciting to see how Damien shows 3 different ways to mention other users via PowerAutomate in his video. You can see this video here on my blog because I have rated this video with 5 stars in my Youtube video library. This video was automatically posted using PowerAutomate.
How to easily create a dynamic contact card in a few minutes and retrieve it with PowerAutomate

Some time ago I started to work more intensively with HTTP requests and thought, you must be able to do more things with it. After watching this Video ‘Deliver documents, collect payments and communicate with customers all with Microsoft Power Automate from Paulie M‘ I had the idea to build my own dynamic contact card. […]
5 ways to run a flow on multiple records inside a model-driven app from Scott Durrow

Great summary about the possibilities of starting a flow from the ModelDriven / Dynamics. Especially the PowerFX variant – I learned here ForAll in Patch (not Patch in ForAll) You can see this video here on my blog because I have rated this video with 5 stars in my Youtube video library. This video was […]
QTT – Why do you keep using the Powerapps refresh function? from Shane Young

Here is a short summary of when and why you should use the refresh function. Spoiler: You’ll be using it a lot less in the future than before. You can see this video here on my blog because I have rated this video with 5 stars in my Youtube video library. This video was automatically […]
Component: Office-Files Viewer

Inspired of the video from Reza Dorrani I build a component for you that u can easy import & configurate to use this. It was important for me to be able to display any office files including PDF files directly from SharePoint WITHOUT having to use a flow and with standard components from powerapps. Here […]
Everything you need to build a Model-driven Power App from Shane Young

This is a great video to get started with the world of ModelDriven apps. Just like Shane, I started with canvas apps and discovered ModelDriven apps for myself some time ago. I find DataVerse4Teams and PowerApps4Teams in particular very exciting. You can see this video here on my blog because I have rated this video […]
Trigger a flow only once without premium? Yes, you can lock a flow temporarily.

ExamplesOverview Total FlowPreparationStructure of the flowFlow-Code to copy IMPORTANT Update 2022-12-14: I’ve tested this solution again, and it doesn’t work anymore without a trial or premium license for Dataverse. Maybe the title seems a bit strange to you, but I would like to show you how to trigger a flow only once every X minutes. […]