Author Archives: Alex Shlega

Here is an Azure Function that’s using Power BI Rest API. Although, it is still no faster than Power BI connector

Earlier this month, I blogged about how “Export to File for Paginated Reports” action seems to be relatively slow (even when compared to doing the export manually from the Power BI Service): https://www.itaintboring.com/power-automate/export-to-file-for-paginated-reports-execution-time/ So, I thought, maybe an alternative could be to write custom code which would be using Power BI Rest API to do… Read More »

Connection references and disabled flows – what’s the connection?

Have you ever had your flows turned off when importing them through a solution? It’s been a bit of a mystery to me for a while. I had some idea about what to look at, but it’s only now that I looked closer. Maybe you’ll find it useful, too. First of all, every Flow can… Read More »

Canvas app error: the requested operation is invalid. Server Response: _scrubbedSensitiveData_

Here is an interesting error I ran into the other day: It does sound like there was something in the server response that was considered “sensitive data”, but what could have happened? The screenshot above is, actually, from the application I created specifically to reproduce the error and see why it’s happening, so it’s very… Read More »

Export to File for Paginated Reports execution time

For the last few days, I’ve been trying to figure out one mysterious aspect of “Export to File for Paginated Reports” action, which is that it was always taking just a little more than 30 seconds to complete. Which, even for the simplest static paginated report that would not even connect to a data source,… Read More »

When “adding required components”, be cautious of the solution layers

You probably know how we can add required components to our solutions – there is an option for that in the maker portal, and it’s easy to use. For example, if I had “contact” table in the solution already, I could add required components for that table: And the idea is that all the relationships,… Read More »

DataSourceInfo – checking table permissions

You might have seen Lance Delano’s post about permissions support functions: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/permissions-support-in-datasourceinfo-and-new-recordinfo-functions-for-dataverse/ This can be very useful, and it sort of feels this might be part of the functionality that would be required to use Power FX when configuring command bar buttons in model driven apps (since we would need to disable/enable those buttons based… Read More »

When your Power Automate flow history run would not stop spinning

This is probably one of those things the product team is going to fix really soon, but, in the meantime, if you started to see spinner recently when looking at the flow run history, you might want to try one of the following: Resize the browser window (could just maximize it as well) Click somewhere… Read More »

Open in new window button – would you keep it or would you disable it?

Just noticed a new button showing up in my environments this morning, and, at first, I thought “wow”, but, then, I thought a bit more, and now I ‘m wondering. It does allow opening the same model-driven screen in a separate window, but is it worth giving up some real-estate in the command bar for… Read More »

Child flows and retry policy

It is often helpful to split bigger Power Automate flows into a bunch of smaller ones, so there is a parent flow, and, possibly, a few child flows. However, when the child flow fails, here is what you might see as a result in the flow run history: In the example above, there was a… Read More »

Quick testing of Javascript web resources

When working with model-driven applications, we always have to publish our changes to see them applied to the user interface. In some cases, it’s ok. We can keep adding columns to the form and publish those changes one, for example. That’s a little frustrating, but it’s acceptable. In other cases, this may become much more… Read More »