More than 3 years ago, I delivered a session at Virtual Scottish Summit 2021 about Power Automation: Best Practices, Tips and Tricks, where I did a reflection to your existing Power Automation flows and went through a list of must-have best practices, tips, and tricks that will allow you to build more reliable and effective flows.
For sure, I need to update my Power Automate slides and session, especially because we now have a new Flow design, and on a visual level, many things are different; of course, there are new features. Don’t get me wrong, but… I’m amazed and happy to see that after 3 years, all those best practices, tips and tricks are still essential and very useful:
- Power Automate flow naming convention: Use descriptive names. They improve readability.
- Actions naming convention: Use descriptive names. They improve readability.
- Add comments: They improve readability.
- Copy to my clipboard: Easy way to Duplicate Actions or Scope.
- Using scopes: Scopes allow us to group actions together and many more. The scope also allows you to implement try-catch-finally mechanisms.
- Error handling… configure run after settings: The ability to set action(s) after a failure or define retry policies
- Learn from failures: You should analyze the run history from time to time and learn from failures… or mistakes.
- Expressions nightmare: Basic operations you can use inside flow actions or conditions.
- Flow checker: The Flow Designer performs design-time checks against your flow for design issues.
- Send a copy: Share a flow without sharing a connection.
- Share with other users or security groups: Share a flow between your team or company.
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