Guide to Microsoft Flow, Logic Apps, and PowerApps: Tutorials, tips, and blog posts
Our blog offers a wide range of articles, tutorials, and resources on Power Automate, including some of our most popular posts listed below. Additionally, we have launched a new section on our website featuring User guides for Power Automate. This section also includes a Knowledge base, a Troubleshooting section, and an FAQ page. For a deeper understanding of how our Flow Actions operate and handle errors, see Core concepts for Microsoft Flow.
Most of the articles listed below apply to Logic Apps with minimal or no change.
Converting
- Automate PDF conversion and email notifications for new SharePoint documents
- Streamline OneDrive file conversion to PDF with Power Automate
- Convert email attachments to PDF and save them automatically to cloud storage
- Archive incoming emails as PDFs automatically using Microsoft Flow
- Create PDF/A compliant documents automatically using Power Automate(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Convert Microsoft Forms responses to Word documents with Power Automate(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Merge multiple wiki pages into one PDF using Power Automate(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Convert Dataverse (CDS) table data to PDF with Nutrient's Document Converter(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
Merging
- Merge multiple files into a single PDF - using Flow Arrays(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Merge multiple files into a single PDF - iterative approach(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Merge multiple files into a single PDF - SharePoint only(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Merge Files to PDF using custom Merge settings and Nutrient's XML override
Watermarking/Stamping
- Add multiple watermarks in a single operation(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Add barcodes to documents using SharePoint, Workflows and API Calls
- Add barcodes(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Add watermarks to MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files
- Label and secure your files in SharePoint Online with Nutrient(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Document approvals in SharePoint Online, including PDF conversion, watermarking and securing files(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
InfoPath
Power Apps
- Convert Power Apps data to PDF using Microsoft Flow
- Convert Power Apps image gallery to HTML and PDF using JSON(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Convert Power Apps pen-data to PDF(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Convert Power Apps data to PDF and send via email(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Decoupling Power Apps from Microsoft Flow to prevent authentication issues(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Prevent authentication prompts in Power Apps and Power Automate for custom connectors(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
Microsoft Forms
- Convert Microsoft Forms data to PDF(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Convert complex Microsoft Forms data to PDF(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Convert Microsoft Forms - including attachments - to PDF(opens in a new tab). (3rd party post)
- Convert Microsoft Forms to MS-Word(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
HTML, web content, list items and Power BI
- Convert HTML/Blog posts to PDF
- Convert SharePoint Online pages/list items to PDF
- Convert a list item and attachments, into a single PDF(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Convert InfoPath, Nintex Forms, PowerApps data to PDF(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Convert wiki page to PDF(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Convert Power BI dashboards to PDF(opens in a new tab)
- Convert HTML files, stored in SharePoint, to PDF(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Convert multiple wiki pages into a single PDF(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Convert modern SharePoint Online pages (ASPX pages) to PDF(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Web scraping – automate collecting tabular data from web page using Power Automate desktop(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
OCR
- Extract text from scans and faxes using OCR(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Convert image based SharePoint content to OCRed PDFs(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Extract text from image based files in SharePoint and set coordinates(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
Video tutorials
- Power Automate video tutorials(opens in a new tab)
- Automatically convert new SharePoint files to PDF using MS Flow
- Automatically split PDF files into smaller ones using MS Flow
- Convert emails, including all attachments, to PDF using MS Flow
- Convert Power Apps data to PDF, including camera and pen controls
- Add QR codes to documents using MS Flow(opens in a new tab)
- Use Power Automate to convert Microsoft Forms data to Word, PDF, and HTML(opens in a new tab)
- Use Power Automate to convert Microsoft Forms - including attachments - to PDF(opens in a new tab)
Advanced topics
- Generate a table of contents for merged PDFs(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Manually run Microsoft Flow (convert and watermark) for the selected item using the SharePoint UI(opens in a new tab)
- Manually run Microsoft Flow for the selected item using a button in the list item(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Invoke a SOAP based web service using Power Automate (Microsoft Flow)(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Invoke a SOAP based web service using Azure functions(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Invoke an Azure function using Microsoft Power Automate (Microsoft Flow)(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Add a 'Convert to PDF' button to a modern view list item detail screen(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Document approval and conversion using adaptive cards in Microsoft Teams(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Use Azure key vault to store credentials for use in Power Automate (Microsoft Flow)(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Create Azure functions OpenAPI extension from SOAP web services(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Create Power Automate/OpenAPI extensions for Azure functions(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Building web APIs for Power platform(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Add simple API key authentication to ASP.NET core web apps(opens in a new tab)(3rd party post)
- Integrate Power Automate with ASP.NET core web API(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Deploy Nutrient PDF in GCC high environments(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Invoke REST API from Power Automate and Power Apps(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
Miscellaneous
- Reduce PDF file size using Power Automate(opens in a new tab)
- Use Microsoft Flow to convert, merge, watermark, secure and OCR files
- Copy SharePoint metadata
- Split up PDF files into smaller ones(opens in a new tab) (3rd party post)
- Convert and move files between different SharePoint Online site collections using Microsoft Flow
- Attach converted PDF files to an email using Microsoft Flow and SharePoint Online
- Official Microsoft tutorial for converting files to PDF using Microsoft Flow(opens in a new tab)
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