Tag: power-platform

20 posts tagged with "power-platform"

• Generate a Beautiful Dataverse ERD in 5 Minutes

  March 21, 2026

  Stop struggling with ugly, unreadable ERDs. Generate color-coded, publication-ready Dataverse entity relationship diagrams using batch XML generation.

• What AI Gets Wrong About Power Platform (And Why That Is the Point)

  March 19, 2026

  AI made three Power Automate architecture mistakes in 10 minutes. After correction, it delivered 14 production-ready flows. Here is the real pattern.

• Building Dataverse Solution ZIPs Programmatically: The Undocumented Guide

  March 19, 2026

  Learn to build a Dataverse solution ZIP from scratch, covering the two JSON formats, forward-slash trap, and undocumented XML workflow entries.

• FetchXML in Power Automate: When OData $filter Is Not Enough

  March 19, 2026

  FetchXML in Power Automate handles temporal queries, linked entity joins, and IN filters that OData $filter cannot. Examples from 14 flows.

• Notification Architecture That Cannot Break Your Business Logic

  March 19, 2026

  Separate Power Automate notification flows from business logic. 14 flows, zero write operations, daily digests over real-time floods.

• The 10-Minute Build: How Specs and AI Produced 14 Power Automate Flows

  March 19, 2026

  Power Automate flows built by AI in 10 minutes -- but only because two years of governance made specs machine-readable. The full architecture story.

• Spec-Driven Power Platform: The Complete Series

  March 19, 2026

  7 articles on building Power Automate flows with specs, governance, and AI. From tag-based architecture to solution packaging to honest AI collaboration.

• Tag-Based Flow Architecture: REV, EVL, STP, NTF - 24 Flows, Zero Confusion

  March 19, 2026

  Entity-area tags turn 24 Power Automate flows into a navigable architecture. A naming system that maps to ADO, source control, and AI agent batches.

• Spec-First Development: Why Your Flow Specs Should Exist Before the Designer Opens

  March 19, 2026

  Stop building flows and hoping documentation catches up. Write machine-readable specs first, then generate flow JSON from them. 14 flows, zero designer.

• AI-Powered Flow Review - Quality Gates Before Production

  March 17, 2026

  Pipeline approvals are rubber stamps. Use AI to review Power Automate flow JSON for error handling gaps, hardcoded values, and naming violations.

• CoE Starter Kit - What It Actually Does and What to Build on Top

  March 17, 2026

  The Center of Excellence Starter Kit is Microsoft's official governance solution. Here's what works, what doesn't, and what's missing.

• Living Documentation in Git - Why Your SharePoint Word Docs Are Dead

  March 17, 2026

  Move architecture diagrams and technical docs from SharePoint Word files into git. Version with code, review in PRs, never let docs go stale again.

• Power Automate Environment Strategy - Dev Test Prod Done Right

  March 17, 2026

  Stop running Power Automate flows in the default environment. Practical guide to dev/test/prod with Managed Environments and environment routing.

• Power Automate Naming Conventions That Scale

  March 17, 2026

  A definitive naming standard for Power Automate flows, connection references, and environment variables. Stop naming flows 'My Flow 2'.

• Power Automate Flow Inventory - You Can't Govern What You Can't See

  March 17, 2026

  Build a Power Automate flow inventory using PowerShell, admin connectors, or the CoE Starter Kit. Discover, classify, and fix orphaned flows.

• Power Automate Versioning and Source Control - Export Tag Track

  March 17, 2026

  Power Automate has no version control for individual flows. Export flow JSON to git, tag versions, diff changes, and track every modification.

• The Weekly Power Automate Governance Digest - Automated Platform Health

  March 17, 2026

  Build a weekly Power Automate governance digest that emails new flows, broken flows, orphans, and policy violations to your platform team automatically.

• Power Platform Pipelines - Moving Flows from Dev to Prod with Approvals

  March 17, 2026

  Pipelines in Power Platform are Microsoft's built-in CI/CD. Most orgs don't know they exist. Setup guide with approval gates and deployment settings.

• Solution-Aware Power Automate Flows - Why Loose Flows Kill Your ALM

  March 17, 2026

  Learn why solution-aware Power Automate flows are essential for ALM, governance, and deployment. Fix loose flows before they become technical debt.

• The Power Platform Governance Repo - Standards Reviews and Inventory in Git

  March 17, 2026

  One git repo for all Power Platform governance: naming standards, review checklists, flow inventory, and AI review reports. Version-controlled.