{"id":702,"date":"2020-01-22T10:36:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T09:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:13:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:13:28","slug":"my-first-flow-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/my-first-flow-application\/","title":{"rendered":"My first Power Automate (Flow) application"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meeting with Flow<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Through my brief journey with Dynamics 365 I\u2019ve encountered expressions like PowerApps, Flow and how good it is to fuse them together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That made me investigate these topics through Microsoft\u2019s e-learning documents. I learned that there are free, downloadable mobile apps related to them. It was interesting for me to see the result immediately on my phone, of what I\u2019ve created on desktop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After reading a few documents about Microsoft Power Automate \u2013 formerly known as Flow \u2013 I started thinking about how I could use it. There are hundreds of templates for various uses, so you can easily get inspired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, I created one from the \u201cGet today’s weather forecast for my current location\u201d template. I modified it to get tomorrow\u2019s weather forecast instead, but I wanted to create my own flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea of the Flow<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I thought out a flow that sends a Push notification to your phone through the Flow app, whenever a new event is added to the Outlook calendar. I\u2019m quite sure that there is a function similar to this one in the official Outlook app, but it was good for practicing purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The execution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It was fairly straightforward to choose the trigger and the action. I just added the necessary fields from the dynamic content and filled the sentence out with my text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Base structure of the flow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The notification informs you about the event\u2019s subject and organizer, the start and the end time of the event.
I formatted the dates, so that they were displayed like ’01\/22 12:00 AM’.
See below the code that achieves this format.
formatDateTime(triggerBody()?['start'],'MM\/dd hh:mm tt')<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tested the flow and it worked, so I thought about making it a bit more complex. I wanted to get notifications only on weekdays, so to achieve that I had to add conditions to my flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After messing around with it and googling a bit I created these 2 conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The conditions<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If it isn\u2019t the 6th or 0th day of the week \u2013 so Saturday or Sunday – then just jump right to the notification action. If it\u2019s Saturday then the notification should be delayed by 2 days, or if it\u2019s Sunday then delay the notification by a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is the expression for the condition.
dayOfWeek(formatDateTime(triggerBody()?['createdDateTime'],'D')) <\/code> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Structure of the whole flow<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The result<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The notification that appears on your phone should look something like this<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The notification<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was able to create this simple function within hours after I started reading related e-learning documents. You can find a lot more educational material about Power Automate on https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learn\/browse\/?products=power-automate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Microsoft Flow<\/a>, <\/span>Microsoft Power Automate<\/a>, <\/span>Outlook<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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