Citizen Can: Mastering Power Automate and Dataverse with George Doubinski

Citizen Can: Mastering Power Automate and Dataverse with George Doubinski

One ‘Citizen’ Developer and one ‘Real’ Developer combine forces to educate and empower the less technical among us with the simplified knowledge to unleash awesomely powerful functions in Power Automate without needing to be a ‘Real’ Developer.

Expand to save on thousands API calls; Relationships are complicated; Expand expanded no matter how deep; Call classic workflows from Power Automate; Pass parameters between classic and flow; Select like a boss; Row count and page.

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Face the fear of $expand and get the lookup values you deserve in Power Automate
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Face the fear of $expand and get the lookup values you deserve in Power Automate

Power Automate and lookup fields are problematic - especially when you are trying to send notifications which include information about records which includes lookup fields.

For example - sending an email about a contact who works at a company called ‘ Vegemite’ comes back as ‘eca9ea6f-c96b-ea11-a811-000d3a58d840‘. I’m not sure about you, but me and most my customers don’t speak '“GUID”.

You can use the ‘Get Records’ action but its not so friendly of the API calls nor so efficient. Come with me on a journey to understand the power of the ‘Expand Query’ to solve all your lookup GUID issues!

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