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Data Operation while working with Microsoft Flow in Dynamics 365.

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  Hello Guys, Today we will see some data operation while working with Microsoft Flow. But before If you are new to MS Flow then please read my this  blog . Do follow us to know more about Dynamics and Power Platform. Also if you like our blog then please comment and share this blog with your friends. As of now we have created so many flows and used some data operation like Compose, Filter Array etc. Today we will see Parse JSON and Select data operation. Also we will see how can we avoid loops for making our flow faster in performance. We will be creating one flow which will retrieve records of Three entities named Customer, Vendor and Partner. For time being I have already made these three entities in CRM and also created sample data. Here we go... Navigate to  https://us.flow.microsoft.com  and click on Create. Select Instant Flow and configure it as below and click on Create. Click on New Step. Search List records and configure it as below. Will do it for all thr...

Convert your flow into Visio document in Microsoft Dynamics 365.

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  Hello Guys, In our previous blog we have learnt how to make HTTP Request in Microsoft Flow. Today we will see how to create Visio Docs of your flow. But before If you are new to MS Flow then please read my this  blog . Do follow us to know more about Dynamics and Power Platform. Also if you like our blog then please comment and share this blog with your friends. Till the time we have created so many flows, now we will see how to make Visio docs of our flow. We have come many situation when we need to create documentation regarding our development. It can be release note or component list which is used when you deploy your product from one environment to another. Consider a scenario when we have created one flow on dev environment and after performing Unit testing we are ready to deploy it on UAT or testing environment. Here we need to create a release note document for flow where we need to take Screen Shot of each flow step and paste it in word document. If our flow is smal...

Using HTTP Request in Microsoft Flow.

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Hello Guys, In our previous blog we have learnt what is Bound and Un Bound action in CRM and how to call this action in Microsoft Flow. Today we are going to learn how to make HTTP Request in Microsoft Flow. But before If you are new to MS Flow then please read my this  blog . Do follow us to know more about Dynamics and Power Platform. Also if you like our blog then please comment and share this blog with your friends. We have come across many situation where we need to use external or internal API. For example while integrating Dynamics 365 with third party we need to use their APIs. Also some time we are creating our own APIs for our internal purpose. Today we will see how we can use APIs with Microsoft Flow. For demonstration purpose we are using one rest API i.e. https://gorest.co.in  which is free of cost. You can get free APIs for testing purpose online. Here we will retrieve users and will create a new user using API with the help of Flow. So first of all we will be cr...

Calling Bound and Un-Bound action in Microsoft Flow.

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  Hello Guys, Today we are going to learn what is Bound and Un Bound action in CRM and how to call this action in Microsoft Flow. But before If you are new to MS Flow then please read my this  blog . Do follow us to know more about Dynamics and Power Platform. Also if you like our blog then please comment and share this blog with your friends. First of all we will understand what is Bound and Un bound Action in Dynamics. As we have worked on Workflow, we have created many workflows and have registered them as a process in CRM. While creating process in Dynamics we are specifying  category like Action, BPF, Dialog and workflow. So if we need to create an action then we have to select an action from the dropdown. Now while creating an action we specify an Entity for that action. Bound Action:   It means creating an action which is bound to specific entity which means it is not a global action. Un Bound Action: It means creating an action which is not bound to spec...

Array functions in Microsoft Flow.

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  Hello Guys, In our previous blogs we have seen how to create an array in MS Flow and how to filter an array based on some criteria. Today we are going to learn some functions which are used while working with an array. If you are new to MS Flow then please read my this  blog . Do follow us to know more about Dynamics and Power Platform. Also if you like our blog then please comment and share this blog with your friends. We will be working with same flow which we have created in  previous blog . 1. length():   This function return total number of items available in array collection. Syntax : length(Array Collection) length(variables('Employee Array')) 2. empty(): This function is used to check whether array collection is empty or not. It will return true or false. Syntax : empty(Array Collection) length(variables('Employee Array')) 3. first(): This function is used to retrieve first element of the array. Syntax : first(Array Collection) first(variable...