Power Automate flow variables - How to use them

In this video on Power Automate flow variables - How to use them, we will look at how we can reduce variables in our flows. The video covers initializing, setting, incrementing and appending data to variables.

Topics covered:
✔️ Using Variable of type Object
✔️ Expressions - setProperty, getProperty, add, union etc.
✔️ Incrementing values
✔️ Appending to array
✔️ Tips & Tricks

#FlowQuickTips #Flow #PowerAutomate #PowerApps #Variables

[tenisviejos]

This is a godsend... Thanks a LOT for this. It's a brilliant approach to simplify so many big and complex existing flows we've at work. Thank you for sharing.

[edjk]

I’m not sure how often folks leave comments on videos that they’ve seen once and then gone back the video much later. This is one of those comments. I came across this when I first came across the power platform. I’ve never been a programmer or anything like that, and this particular video was way above my ability to comprehend at that time. Today, about two years later, I will use this as a best practice. I’m guessing when it comes to leveraging values using loops, I have some experimenting to do. But I should be able to leverage the item property to get this done. Although at this time, I cannot afford to become a member of your channel, I know what I know today because of you… Thanks mate!

[Collinmcd]

Reza, I love your channel man. Thank you for helping out the IT community. This would be very hard for me to pick up without your videos and initiative. Much respect.

[edjk]

You have inspired me to reshape my business by adding these technologies. Your lessons are very helpful. I’ve gotten myself in a bit too deep with a project for my number 1 client. I continue to search videos for answers to some of my new challenges. Nonetheless I always learn things from you. Thank You Reza

[gorgonhaas]

This is so helpful and time-saving — you point out the essentials and more in a very concise way. Thank you!

[dougydoe]

A great overview to using variables with expressions. Thanks for sharing.

[AssassinUK]

WOW .. Great video. Love how your flows work 1st time all the time! 😅

[marciokataoka]

Tips like these make our lives easier! ☺

[flipopperman]

Thanks a lot Reza, it is also a useful tutorial on how to update object properties and arrays elements in general. Thank you again for putting this together.

[travis]

Reza, this video was brilliant! Thank you so much.

[ammadkhan]

This is Gold worth Information.. Saluting !!!

[berggrog]

Nice Explanation RD! Thank you for the video and tips

[amywoodfin]

Excellent, easy-to-follow instructions for someone that has been desperately trying to understand what variables are and what role they play in flows. Question - is there any way to hide the initial variables that you initialize so you just see the Compose? That would make it super clean! Regardless, I really appreciate your training style and info. On to your next tutorial. Cheers!

[GroovyMisfit]

This is awesome. I watched this like 5 times.
BTW, How did you do the magnifying glass? That was nice.

[cyriltresor]

Thank you very much, thanks to your videos I have managed to set up a workflow that works correctly from a form to the sending of a summary email.
But I still have an minor issue. I constructed a Likert-type form. And I would like to get in a variable only a certain type of value. For example. Question 1 Answer 1 Answer 2 Answer 3
My idea would be to have a variable that would store only the A3's to display in an email, but I'm interested in another idea. The long way would be to do it with conditions, but that's not very elegant when you have a lot of possibilities.

[samfisherzz]

Hi Raza!
I am new to Power Automate and have been learning from your videos. I am trying to send MS forms response to Sharepoint List. Some response questions have multiple choice, so I followed the popular method of initialize an array variable, remove extra symbols from Microsoft Forms string output, split the previous line into an array, append to array variable using a formula.
It works perfectly, but now I have created multiple array variables for each multiple question in a single initiate variable action as you have described. How can I get the multiple choice response for each question from MS forms into its corresponding variable?

[LapaConsult_Ex_Macraris]

Thank you again for this video... as part of my learning I would like to do a similar video and publish it in Italian. Thank you!

[mondlintuli]

This is very helpful thanks a lot Reza :)

[lbp]

Excelent content!! How to learn more about expressions in power automate ? Thanks and great job!

[aamirghanchi]

Thank you for theis great video! What about the Date/Time variables. I see them in the documentation for the desktop flow but not the cloud flows. I wanted to get the max and min of two dates but there is no straightforward way of doing it.