Top 25 Power Automate flow tips and tricks for 2021 - hidden gems and new features

Video is a step-by-step tutorial on my top 25 Microsoft Power Automate flow tips and tricks. Tutorial covers useful flow features & tips like different flow types, flow templates, flow connector suite, best practices around renaming actions and flows, how to copy and paste actions, use scopes for grouping, compose Vs variable conundrum, expression editor, how to enable the new experimental features, generate flow run URL, trigger conditions to avoid flow API calls, use peek code, apply concurrency control to apply to each loop to speed up processing, format numbers, dates and times, convert time zones, error handling, timeouts and flow limits and much more.

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Table of Contents:
00:00​ - Intro
00:21 - Tip 1 - Power Automate flow types
03:15 - Tip 2 - Power Automate flow templates
04:19 - Tip 3 - Creating flows in Power Automate
05:24 - Tip 4 - Connectors in Power Automate flows
06:25 - Tip 5 - Renaming actions in flows
08:09 - Tip 6 - Add comments to flow actions
09:27 - Tip 7 - Copy and paste flow actions
10:46 - Tip 8 - Group flow actions using scope
11:28 - Tip 9 - Compose Vs Variables
13:11 - Tip 10 - Power Automate expressions and how to turn on experimental features
14:51 - Tip 11 - Get flow run URL
16:18 - Tip 12 - Power Automate flow trigger conditions
18:24 - Tip 13 - Peek code
19:06 - Tip 14 - Apply to each loop concurrency control
20:58 - Tip 15 - Format number as currency, decimal or custom formats
22:02 - Tip 16 - Date time format and converting time zones in flow
23:44 - Tip 17 - Data operations - Select, Filter, Create csv & html table
25:48 - Tip 18 - Parallel branches in flow
26:25 - Tip 19 - Error handling in Power Automate flows
28:51 - Tip 20 - Flow checker
29:52 - Tip 21 - Test flow runs
30:25 - Tip 22 - Add additional flow Owners
31:38 - Tip 23 - Share flows - Export and Import flows
32:55 - Tip 24 - Flow run duration limit - 30 days
34:06 - Tip 25 - Flow run history - 28 days
34:43 - Bonus Tip - Cloud flows Vs Shared with me
35:07 - Subscribe

[juansepowerplatform]

This video is a must for everyone creating flows, 30 minutes of pure knowledge. Thank you Reza

[lukebrunning]

I've learned more in this one video than *everything* else I've read/watched/listened to on Power Automate... thanks Reza!

[MoonChilde]

You should have way more views.

This really gets into the nuts and bolts of Power Automate, well beyond just tips and tricks.

Peek code and concurrent loops as just a couple of thing we all needed to know.

Awesome video, and thanks for making it.

[nandansubramanya]

I have been using flow for a while now, did not expect to learn much. I was wrong. Learnt a lot.... I am still on tip 15, and so impressed that I was compelled to leave a comment

[Worrelpa]

Great Video Reza, lots of useful info, for beginners to pro;s, some I didn't know in there and I have been using Flow since its early days ;). My one tip I would add is in renaming actions. Rename them but leave the action type at the beginning. e.g. Get items - Project items That way you know exactly what type of action it is and what it does / its purpose. I always used to find that having a number of same coloured steps confused me about what type of action it was.

[Dibakar]

In a single video capturing these many important features is awesome.

[amitmann]

watched your all powerapps videos and started power automate..and starting itself is this GREAT video.

[ashu]

This is 35 mins of pure awesomeness Reza.

[gabriellopezgl]

Crack! You are a big heroe for all analyst in spain! Thanks a again for this kind of video.

Saludos desde España

[gooseyclancy]

Brilliant :) Reza is the man I learned so much from this and other videos coming from workflow in D365 my fear of PA is now gone :)

[Bekesam]

This fabulous for both beginners and advanced users. You packed alot in this video for a great reference. Thank you Reza!

[cvkealey]

Thank you for providing such a comprehensively useful resource! I have a LOT of folks asking me "how do I get started with Power Automate?" Now I know where to send them!

On a slightly different topic, I've been fiddling around with the "Power Automate Management" connector's actions and built a few flows to help inventory and manage my flows (I'm planning to record a video showing how I did that, just waiting to work out some of the bugs). I now have a Microsoft List (called "My Flows") that serves as my master inventory. One bit of information that I haven't found a good way to retrieve is the timestamp of the last run for a given flow. I know I can get that when a flow runs, but that would mean adding a step to all of my flows, some of which run as other users, who don't have permission to my "My Flows" list). I was hoping it would be an output value/property of the "Get flow" action, but it's not. Any ideas?

[JD-lxcx]

Even the video is recorded a yeara go, it is still very help to summary Power Automate skills. Thank you Reza!

[AHMEDALDAFAAE]

I was searching for this kind of videos about Power Automate. Thank you so much!!!🤞

[Sunilprakashsabbithi]

Thanks Reza. Every time i watch your video, i learn a lot of new things which are very useful.

[Evilship]

its very informative and worth watching the language is simple and crisp

[factsandreality]

You are Gem bro... I have enjoyed your video without any distraction...

[MsAmyrock]

Excellent! I've been using Flow for years and I learned something new!

[digamberhampa]

Awesome Reza, learnt lot of new things from you. Thank you.

[muhammadusmankhan]

I am new to power automate.
All the things are going awesome as I found your channel, keep doing the good work, and thank you so much for such helpful content.