Level of Difficulty: Beginner – Senior. One of the biggest challenges in the Power Platform is maintaining control of the environments with the necessary visibility, especially when faced with the risk of orphaned artefacts (apps/flows without owners – possibly because the owner has left the organisation and the user account associated no longer exists). TheContinue reading “[Power Automate] Ensuring Center of Excellence (COE) Control of Apps and Automate Flows”
Category Archives: Automation
[Power Automate] Exporting a Power BI Report Page as an Image and Embedding it into a Word Document
Level of Difficulty: Beginner – Senior. Now, we all know that data speaks volumes, but only if we can understand its language. Power BI has been a game changer in converting complex data into insightful, visually engaging reports. But there’s more magic in the mix! Have you ever tried extracting a Power BI report intoContinue reading “[Power Automate] Exporting a Power BI Report Page as an Image and Embedding it into a Word Document”
[Automation] Integrating with the MusicMaker Bot on Discord (Using UiPath)
Level of Difficulty: Beginner – Senior. Discord is a great place to get a community of like-minded people together to partake in a whole range of activities, from gaming and home automation to Q&A community forums right across to using educational forums and everything in between. The more informal options often have text or voiceContinue reading “[Automation] Integrating with the MusicMaker Bot on Discord (Using UiPath)”
[Et al.] Understanding UiPath Licensing Compared to Power Platform Licensing
Level of Difficulty: Beginner – Senior. As a follow-on from the post written comparing UiPath to the Microsoft Power Platform, this post aims to unpack the different licenses and licensing strategies implemented by the two different vendors. Since both are leaders in the automation space, it is apt to understand both when evaluating the feasibilityContinue reading “[Et al.] Understanding UiPath Licensing Compared to Power Platform Licensing”
[Automation] Getting Data from the ‘New’ GitHub Projects
Level of Difficulty: Beginner – Senior. GitHub Projects is nothing new – it has been around for a while now with a really cool API that allows you to pull data from it. For those who have made use of that functionality, it has been a breeze trying to automate and integrate different tasks acrossContinue reading “[Automation] Getting Data from the ‘New’ GitHub Projects”
[UiPath] Setting up a Power BI Custom Connector for UiPath Data Service
Level of Difficulty: Intermediate – Senior. UiPath Data Service has become a sophisticated way to encapsulate data and information used in automation solutions within the UiPath platform without needing to invest in additional infrastructure. The power that data enables which ties everything together is the ability to integrate and visualise the available data. For this,Continue reading “[UiPath] Setting up a Power BI Custom Connector for UiPath Data Service”
[Automation] Basic Exception Handling in Power Automate Cloud Flows
Level of Difficulty: Beginner – Senior. Power Automate is a powerful tool that works well for integration and even automating workflows. Citizen developers have started adopting Power Automate to automate some of their day-to-day activities. One of the most important parts of a traditional solution development strategy is error and exception handling. Automation would typicallyContinue reading “[Automation] Basic Exception Handling in Power Automate Cloud Flows”
[UiPath] Creating a UiPath Data Services Entity Record From UiPath Studio
Level of Difficulty: Junior – Senior. I recently started playing with integrating UiPath Apps, UiPath Data Services and UiPath Storage Buckets into my automations. It has been a tremendous amount of fun to see it all come together and how it all gels together. I had a few challenges creating records in UiPath Data ServicesContinue reading “[UiPath] Creating a UiPath Data Services Entity Record From UiPath Studio”
[UiPath] Task Capture Good Practices
Level of Difficulty: Junior – Senior. UiPath Task Capture is a tool that exists within the UiPath product offering. It has been tagged as a “Prepare Automation” type tool which assists in mapping out a process in terms of process steps, screenshots, actions and descriptions. The UiPath Task Capture Document can be exported as aContinue reading “[UiPath] Task Capture Good Practices”
[UiPath] Preparing for the UiPath Advanced RPA Developer (UiARD) Certification Exam
Level of Difficulty: Junior – Senior. Since writing the UiPath Advanced RPA Developer (UiARD) Certification Exam, I have received many questions about and requests for assistance with preparing for the exam. So I’ve decided to detail an approach that worked for me. Some background context – the first time I wrote the certification over aContinue reading “[UiPath] Preparing for the UiPath Advanced RPA Developer (UiARD) Certification Exam”
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