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In this post let us see "How can we create an Empty Folder in OneDriveforBusiness" using SharePoint HTTP Action. As we do not have out of the box action to create Folders in OneDriveforBusiness - we can leverage "Send  an HTTP request to SharePoint" Pre-requisites: OneDriveforBusiness URL Folder Name to create Eg: https://{domain}-my.sharepoint.com/personal/{username}/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx Steps: Go to  Microsoft Power Automate | Microsoft Power Platform  -> Sign in Select the respective Environment Click on "Create" -> Instant Flow -> provide a name to the flow name choose "Manually trigger a flow" Add an input to the trigger and name it as "folderName" Add an action -> "Send an HTTP request to SharePoint" Click on "Add a custom item" and enter the OneDriveforBusiness URL and update the action with below parameters

In this post let us how to embed an image in an email using Power Automate In order to embed an image in an email - it would be easy if the image is stored in OneDrive or SharePoint folder and retrieve them. Let us see how to accomplish this... Create a folder in OneDrive for Business Upload an image to embed in email Now, let us create flow. Add a trigger Add a variable (this helps us to form the image tag to embed in email) Add OneDrive for Business connector and chose "List files in folder" Add "Get file content" and File field add - "Id" from the above action Now add "Get File Content" action from OneDrive for Business connector Under File field - select "Id" from the dynamic content Apply to each automatically applies when you add "Id" into File field. Now add "Set Variable" and update it's Value as <img src="data:image/png;base64, @{body('Get_file_content')?['$content']} " alt=&

In this post, let us see how to implement " Nested Flows " in Power Automate.  Some use cases: To create a common logic and make use of "Run a Child Flow" action To perform actions on the database without providing access to the end users. Let us create records in SharePoint (using Student Name and Email fields in this post)  without providing access to the end users using nested flow concept. To proceed, we need to have two flows created.  Parent Flow (which triggers the child flow) Child Flow (nested Flow) Go to flow.microsoft.com, log in and select respective environment from the drop-down. Click on "+ Create" Choose "Instant flow" Provide a name and choose " When an HTTP request is received " and "Create" Now, we need to provide inputs to the flow (inputs from the Parent Flow) We need to generate Schema for " When an HTTP request is received" trigger Click on "Use sample payload to generate schema" and

Validate an email input in a Canvas Application | PowerApps In this post let us see, how to Validate an email input in a Canvas Application UI Validations helps us to ensure, valid data is received from the End User to complete an operation helps end user to provide right information the validation action depends on the type of the input control for Text Input Control - mostly we go with "OnChange" for check box control - "OnCheck and On uncheck" for Drop Down and Combo Box Controls - "OnChange" or "OnSelect" etc., Now, let us see how can we validate an email input, a phone number input and a name input. How to validate an email input value is valid? We can leverage "Regex" (Regular Expressions) to valid user inputs. Let us consider the Email Input Control Name as -  txtEmail.Text. OnChange of this Control let us i

in this post, let us see how to create a Pop-Up in Canvas App required controls: rectangular icon label buttons - 2 take a "rectangular icon" and make it screen size update it's "Fill" - with RGBA(175, 191, 224, 0.5) . Take another "rectangular icon" and adjust it to center Take "label" - and add required text (Eg: "do you want to proceed?") Take two buttons. Update text of Button1 to "OK" and other to "Cancel" On Click of the respective control (to open the pop-up), add this expression : UpdateContext({locOpenPopup:true}) select "cancel" and "ok" button and add UpdateContext({locOpenPopup:false}) on "OnSelect" property. add appropriate actions on "cancel&quo