Power Automate: Cloud Flow | Filter Datasets Better

The ask, improve a long running cloud flow's performance. It has a Get files (properties only) action querying 2,000 recent items which are filtered using a Condition block. Because the library already has 100K+ items, OData filters can be hit or miss, so the maker is iterating each returned item, causing the flow loop to … Continue reading Power Automate: Cloud Flow | Filter Datasets Better

Power Apps: Application Lifecycle Management | Housekeeping

Power Apps canvas apps are easy enough for citizen devs to build without a traditional developer's background. And they can build some pretty complex solutions. Unfortunately, as apps grow in complexity, devs rarely remember to clean up their solutions and remove unnecessary elements, especially as solutions are promoted from one environment to another. Likely the … Continue reading Power Apps: Application Lifecycle Management | Housekeeping

Power Platform: Application Lifecycle Management | Housekeeping

As with Power Automate housekeeping, good Power Platform solution hygiene means being intentional with design. Keep the managed and unmanaged solutions as lite as possible, and work to reduce the amount of unnecessary project assets. Larger Power Platform solutions can bundle dozens of different assets, as well as dozens of each asset type. For example, … Continue reading Power Platform: Application Lifecycle Management | Housekeeping

Power Platform: Understanding | Solutions + Environments

Application lifecycle management is the governance, deployment, and maintenance of applications. Even though the Power Platform is "low-code", makers should still adopt the practice. More specifically, when deploying their projects as solutions across environments. So, what are solutions and what are environments? Solutions are bundled project assets. In the Power Platform ecosystem, these project assets … Continue reading Power Platform: Understanding | Solutions + Environments