Pait Group Blog

Working with List Item Attachments in Power Automate Approvals

It’s funny how so much, yet so little, can change in three years. In February 2020, we published a blog post about working with Item Attachments in Flow. We’ve updated the existing post to reflect the new name of Flow to Power Automate, but now it’s time to revisit the post with updated Power Automate actions and functionality. The high-level process remains the same:

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SharePoint 2013 Workflow Retirement: A public service announcement

As SharePoint 2013 Workflows moves closer to an end of life, we here at Pait have discussed how to best make sure our customers- past, present, and future- are prepared for the end of this important and once very common technology.

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Decoding the Puzzle: Navigating Power Apps and Power Automate Licensing with Ease

Welcome to the world of Power Platform, where choosing the right license is like solving an intricate puzzle, one that needs to perfectly align with both your business needs and budget. Whether you're a solo entrepreneur or a large enterprise, understanding the nuances of Power Apps and Power Automate licensing is like finding the secret recipe for digital efficiency. Get ready to explore each license type, understanding their features, costs, and uses, as we break this puzzle down and piece it back together!

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Automate Where You Are: Power Automate Desktop

If you work in even a lightly technical workplace these days, you know there is a big push to use technology to automate many day-to-day tasks. Microsoft has worked hard to provide an array of tools to feed that need. If you look at the list of Power Automate's "connectors" (https://make.powerautomate.com/connectors), you will see that Microsoft has worked with a variety of partners to build an ecosystem of endpoints for working with data that moves to and from Microsoft 365 in a way that is designed to be useful for automation tasks. Connectors reduce the "friction" between various services interacting, reducing development needed to make various data sources communicate with one another. If you need to have something automated, in the Microsoft 365 context, Power Automate has probably come up.

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Mastering Power Automate: Unlocking Trigger Conditions and the Compose Action

In this blog, we're focusing on Trigger Conditions and the Compose action – two essential tools for refining your workflows. Learn how Trigger Conditions let you control when flows activate based on specific criteria, and discover the dynamic capabilities of the Compose action, your utility knife for text manipulation and data transformation!

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Modern Workplace Therapy

As a Modern Workplace consultant with an emphasis in Microsoft 365, I deliver solutions architected in SharePoint Online with Teams and Power Platform. I could call myself a developer, an architect, a consultant, a data specialist etc. but I prefer to refer to myself as a therapist. It started out jokingly, but now that I’ve been an IT Professional for over 10 years, I’m more convinced than ever that I chose the right title.

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