Articles Tagged “Business Automation”
8 articles tagged “Business Automation”, newest first.
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Power Automate Error Handling and Retry Design — Preventing 'The Flow Was Working, Then It Just Stopped'
A collection of design patterns for preventing Power Automate flows from silently stopping without anyone noticing. Based on Microsoft Learn's official speci...
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Designing Scheduled Flows in Power Automate — Month-End Processing, Business-Day Checks, and Reminders in Practice
A practical guide to automating recurring processes with Power Automate's Recurrence trigger. Covers the trap of the default time zone being UTC, date expres...
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Automating Data Entry Into Legacy Core Systems With Power Automate for Desktop — Replacing Manual Entry From Excel and Paper With UI Automation
A practical guide to replacing manual data entry into old core systems that have no API, using UI automation in Power Automate for desktop (PAD). Covers what...
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Automating Purchase-Order and Invoice PDFs That Arrive by Email With Power Automate — Designing Storage, Routing, Notification, and Extraction
A practical guide to automating the storage, routing, and notification of purchase-order and invoice PDFs that arrive by email with Power Automate, covering ...
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Building an Approval Workflow in Power Automate — Digitizing Paper and Email-Based Approval Requests
A practical guide to digitizing paper approval forms and email-attached Excel requests with Power Automate: the types of approval actions, choosing among For...
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Migrating Excel VBA Macros to Power Automate — What to Replace with Office Scripts, and What to Leave as VBA
A guide to whether Excel VBA macros can migrate to Power Automate, covering what Office Scripts can replace, what only VBA can still do, connector limits, li...
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When Task Scheduler Tasks Don't Run or Exit with 0x1 — Isolating the Cause and Designing for Reliable Operation
A design guide to putting Windows Task Scheduler into reliable production use: execution accounts and logon types, what 'Run whether user is logged on or not...
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Automating Business Processes with Power Automate — Cloud Flows, Desktop Flows, and Robust Error Handling
A practical design guide to Power Automate: the difference between cloud flows and desktop flows, when to use PowerShell or VBA instead, licensing, error han...