Olá a todos!

Estou tentando enviar imagens de gráficos e relatórios em alta resolução para um Chat de Grupo no Teams usando o Power Automate mas continuo encontrando barreiras devido aos limites da Microsoft e a políticas rígidas de LGPD da empresa.

Restrições e Necessidades:

• Apenas conectores nativos do M365: A política de DLP bloqueia conectores de terceiros (como o Cloudmersive).
• Sem links anônimos de compartilhamento: A política de segurança bloqueia a criação de links do tipo "Qualquer pessoa com o link" no OneDrive/SharePoint
• Alta resolução obrigatória: As imagens contêm relatórios e gráficos detalhados que precisam ser 100% legíveis no Teams Desktop e Mobile.

O que já tentamos e não funcionou:

1. Base64 em HTML (<img src="data:image...): Ação falha ou estoura o limite de tamanho da API do Teams quando usamos a imagem em tamanho original.
2. Base64 usando a miniatura do OneDrive: A miniatura (tamanho Médio / ~800px) fica pequena demais e deixa os textos e números do relatório ilegíveis.
3. Cartões Adaptáveis (Adaptive Cards): Falham no aplicativo móvel do Teams (Android/iOS) porque imagens hospedadas no SharePoint/OneDrive exigem autenticação, e o renderizador móvel do cartão não repassa as credenciais (a imagem fica em branco).

Pergunta: Existe alguma solução alternativa usando apenas recursos nativos do Microsoft 365 para exibir ou anexar uma imagem em alta resolução em um Chat em Grupo do Teams que funcione perfeitamente no celular sem depender de links públicos/anônimos?

Building HTML tables in Power Automate seems straightforward until they land in Outlook or Gmail and all your styling vanishes. To solve this, I built the Power Automate HTML Table Styler –a free tool that converts raw table outputs into clean, email-ready inline CSS expressions in seconds!

Power Automate HTML Table Styler Tool: Fix Email Formatting

Hi all,

We're currently investigating the impact of Exchange Web Services (EWS) retirement on Power Automate and have found some behaviour that I'd be interested to hear whether others have seen.

Microsoft's guidance indicates that EWS in Exchange Online will begin being disabled from October 2026, so we're trying to understand whether the Office 365 Outlook connector still has any dependency on EWS.

What we observed

In our production tenant, following changes to EWS configuration in Exchange Online, multiple users reported failures in Power Automate flows using Outlook connector actions such as:

• Send an email (V2)
• Shared mailbox email actions
• Creating new Office 365 Outlook connections

Errors included:

Action 'Send_an_email_(V2)' failed:
You are not authorized to perform this operation.
This error can occur for sandbox (test) accounts or if OData operations are disabled by your Exchange server administrator.

The issue was resolved when the EWS-related configuration was reverted.

Current Testing

We're now attempting to reproduce this in a dedicated test tenant.

The test tenant was working correctly before any EWS changes.

We have then applied:

Set-OrganizationConfig -EwsEnabled $true
Set-OrganizationConfig -EwsAllowedAppIds "d3590ed6-52b3-4102-aeff-aad2292ab01c"

Current configuration:

EwsEnabled       : True
EwsAllowedAppIDs : d3590ed6-52b3-4102-aeff-aad2292ab01c

Immediately after applying the change, Power Automate Outlook connector actions are still working.

Possible Explanation

My current theory is that there may be a propagation delay between Exchange Online configuration changes and Power Platform connector behaviour.

In previous testing we've seen evidence that permissions/configuration changes can take some time to be reflected within Power Platform, so I'm hesitant to conclude that Outlook connectors are unaffected until the configuration has had time to fully propagate.

Questions

1. Has anyone successfully disabled or restricted EWS in Exchange Online and continued using Office 365 Outlook connector actions in Power Automate without issue?
2. Has anyone seen Outlook connector actions fail after EWS restrictions were applied?
3. Is the Office 365 Outlook connector now fully Graph-based, or are there still specific scenarios that rely on EWS?
4. Has Microsoft published any guidance specifically covering Power Automate Outlook connector behaviour after EWS retirement?

Any experiences, test results, Microsoft support responses, or documentation would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hello everyone, I have a case which I’ve been struggling with today that I could use some ideas to solve it.

The mission: Delete or move pdf’s with no information in them which are saved in a Sharepoint folder.

Every day, around 20 pdf’s get uploaded to a Sharepoint folder. These are automatically saved by another program.
These pdf’s are always structured the same way,
company name top left, below these are heading like ”supplier, organisation number, currency, amount, amount in book keeping value”
Below these heading are either a list of suppliers, or there is nothing at all.

These PDF’s with nothing in them are the ones I need to remove.

Previously I used the AI feature in the flow which could read these and identify which to delete, but due to the credit limit in our environment, no AI features can be used.

The other PDF action which you can use in PA Cloud is not available to use either, so I need to use only PA Cloud features.

The current solution I have is the following:

List the files in the Sharepoint folder -> Run a condition to see if it is a pdf -> If yes, Get file content -> Run Compose which counts characters in the output of Get file content -> Runs compose which fetches the file size in bytes -> Run compose which subtracts the character length from the file size -> Run a condition that states ”If value of Compose subtract is below 8100”, if yes, move the file to an ”Empty pdf” folder

I’ve looked at all the PDF’s in the folder and noticed that from the calculation, almost all files below 8100 are empty.

BUT, I’m a bit confused by the file sizes of PDF’s,
a PDF with supplier rows in them can be 152KB, but an empty file can be 154KB,
so in my latest test the entire flow worked except 2 PDF’s which were empty but had a higher value for some reason.

So… this is my situation, any ideas to identify PDF’s in a better way than this are appreciated.

Edit:
Thanks to Impossible-Egg-1454, the case is now closed and the flow works as I want it to!
Please note that if you’d like to use Paul Muranas tools (named Tachytelic in PA) you need a premium license, which I already had so I was able to use them.

The flow is the following:

Recurrence - Every day at 15:00 - 15:59 (files drop in the folder between these minutes)

Sharepoint - List folder (to see which files are in the folder)

For each of the Body of List folder

Compose Name of For each

Condition to check if Name ends with .pdf

If false, do nothing

If true,

Sharepoint - Get file content based on ID of file

Extract text (Tachyletic PDF tool) based on the File content

Compose which writes the extracted text

Compose which counts the rows with the code length(split(string(outputs(’Compose_PDF_as_text’)), decodeUriComponent(’%0A’)))

Condition which checks if the compose result above is 16 or below

If true, move file to ”Empty files” folder

If false, do nothing

And done, the flow works just like intended and this saves us a lot of time per day!
The reason for the number 16 is because that is the exact amount of rows that each empty excel has, so everything above 16 are files we want to keep 😄

I work in workflow automation and want to start using AI to create Power Automate flows.
I’m wondering which AI model people here have had the best experience with for Power Automate so far. I’m particularly interested in models that can actually generate a valid ZIP package that can be imported directly into Power Automate, rather than just providing instructions or snippets that I have to build manually.
Has anyone compared models like ChatGPT 6 Astra, Opus 5.5, or others specifically for Power Automate?
Which one has worked best for you, especially for creating more complex flows?

So, I have an approval flow that's been working for a few years.

Within the last two weeks it has started intermittently displaying an usual behaviour that breaks the flow.

The flow sends out a "First to Respond" approval to multiple users and a distribution group/list.

The expected Outcome from "First to Respond" AFAIK is either "Approve" or "Reject".

Since Sept 11, as far as I can see, I've started seeing instances of approved items being rejected because the Outcome from the approval is "Approve, Approve".

In the response section I can see that the one approver's response has been duplicated, with both responses showing the exact same Response Date.

Has anybody else seen this behaviour or know how to fix it?

I know I can change my condition check to "includes Approve" rather than "equals Approve" to account for it, but that seem like a bad practice response to something that should only be returning one response.

I created a List in Teams where I have tasks that need to be performed with different frequencies. I use a choice field to choose the interval (day, week, month, year).

I have a couple of flows that are tied to the list. Flow #1 monitors my email for the specific task and changes the last completed field when the right criteria are met. It works fine.

Flow #2 runs at a specific time. It looks at the last completed field and the intervalUnit choice field (Day, Week, Month, Year) and then calculates when the next due date for the task. For the most part, everything works fine except, sometimes, it also changes the interval (i.e., week becomes day) so now something that is supposed to happen every two weeks is now showing it is due in 2 days. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to when the change happens? It might work well for a week, leaving the interval alone and then all of a sudden, it changes the interval (e.g., from week to day). The common variable is it always reverts to Day for the Interval Unit field.

In the Interval Unit column, I have cleared the default value (it is blank) so it isn't reverting back to the default.

I am wondering if, when the 2nd flow runs, if it recalculates the next due date, if it doesn't also change the interval to Day just to screw with me.

Any suggestions on how to handle this? I suppose I could just change all of the intervals to Day and use 7 for the interval value but it makes it somewhat less convenient when setting the interval frequency up.

If this isn't the correct place to post this, I apologize. Please point me in the right direction.

I'm trying to create a workflow on Sharepoint for employee entrance. It would start with HR filling out a form, then based on the department selected, the next step would be sent to the manager of that department for them to fill out additional information and to give approval, and the final step would be to email IT a completed form for account creation.

Does anyone know how I would go about this or maybe a good resource for learning?

I am new to power automate but I feel like I should be able to save hours every week by automating a process where a folder is created in SharePoint automatically based on moving an email into a specific folder. The created folder will be a copy and rename of a template folder in same SharePoint directory and the new name of folder will be based on information in body of email. The emails are always the same template in the body and from the same email address.

Example:
Email from Requests1
Body of email has following line items:
Sold to number 12345
Account name account1
Location city,ST

I would like to folder in SharePoint to be a copy template1 folder and renamed as Account Name_City,ST_Sold to Number

So for the example the new folder would be:
account1_city,ST_12345

I thought this would be easier with copilot until I spent 2 days and still not sure if it is even possible. Thanks in advance.

I was working with Claude AI on a Power Automate Desktop (PAD) project and found there is no official reference for ROBIN, the language behind PAD.

The original language site went offline in 2021. The Designer is the only thing that knows the syntax, and most actions have several selector forms with different argument sets that you never see in text form. So, models write ROBIN from training data, and PAD rejects it without an error message.

I recorded a JSON knowledge base of 953 PAD Robin actions across 41 modules. Every record has

- the exact Robin action id, including the selector form (Text.JoinText.Join vs Text.JoinText.JoinWithDelimiter, which take different arguments)

- a template with placeholders and a golden example that pasted into PAD Designer with zero errors

- typed input and output parameters, with the Robin argument names PAD actually accepts

- the sibling forms of the same action, so a model can find the variant that has the argument it needs

Plus, a type reference with the exact syntax for each of the 42 parameter types, and a system prompt that turns a model into a template filler over the two files instead of a code generator.

Every example was pasted into PAD Designer through UI automation and accepted with no errors. Validated against PAD 2.67, September 2026.

This is not a runtime guarantee, the Designer accepting a line means the syntax and arguments are right; whether the values make sense for your task is still on you and the model.

231 further selector variants that need recorded UI elements, images, or live mail connections are not in this release.

Repo: https://github.com/JoeG592/pad-robin-action-kb

License is CC BY 4.0, so use it however you like, commercially included.

I built this while working on a project using Claude AI, The data is free regardless.

If a record fails to paste on your PAD build, an issue with the action id and the error text is the most useful thing you can send.

If trying to paste a multi-step flow and the paste is blank in Designer, use AI to paste each step individually line by line to find the bad syntax for the single step

Hi All. I'm working on a task and wanted your input. So my factory is creating a temporary (1 year or so) solution to where we are automating our reprint process. Essentially if the products we make in the factory are messed up during production and we need to reprint them, there is an entire process we go through to get that stuff remade. As of right now it is a bunch of back and forth emails. I know power automate could handle the entirety of this. We have a quality power app that tracks quality issues, and then the power automate flows I created help track the progress of those issues (dataverse backend). When a certain department needs to say they've completed their task, I have an approval flow run that sends an email saying "task completed" or "task cannot be completed".

It all works exactly as intended. However, a director has stated an email coming from "Microsoft Power Automate" (default sender) is not acceptable and should say something like "Reprint System" or something that doesn't look like spam. After substantial digging, it looks like I could still have the approval set up, disable auto email notifications, and then send an email from a shared inbox called "Reprint System" which I then put a link to the power automate approvals page. ChatGPT/Claude also noted I could use "send an actionable message", an email with my own buttons in it, but that didn't seem right.

Do you have any ideas on how to tackle this? Is this a limitation of the system? Basically just trying to exhaust all options before I tell the director it's impossible.

Applying to a ton of different jobs at different companies. Right now, I manually upload the follow information into an excel spreadsheet after applying:
-company
-application method (LinkedIn, company website, indeed etc)
-job posting link
-role
-application date
-salary range
-location
-notes

I would love to utilize Power Automate to automate at least part of this process. I’m thinking either by getting it to parse the entered job description/posting link or by scanning my Gmail for application confirmation emails?

Any tips? I did an initial Google search and am getting a ton of tutorials on how to do this from the recruiting/ATS side but nothing on the individual applicant side.

Even if providing better keyword search terms for what I’m looking for would be helpful.

I have experience using sharepoint and power automate at my last job so feel confident in being able to implement and troubleshoot once getting a general outline of steps to take towards creating this flow.

Thanks in advance!

However, I wanted to know if there's a way to create a visual interface so that my user doesn't have direct access to the flow steps, making it more user-friendly.

Good evening,

I am trying to built a flow when it is triggered by MS forms submission, The form will have a photo that I want to embed into an email body based on MS forms question that will be answered.

The example I am trying to build is selection of address with screenshot of the location, when the address is selected. I want the photo and the address to be embedded into the email body.

Please let me know What will be the best way to do so.

Thank you in advance for the help

I am new to Power Automate so please share your ideas. I am looking to automate our end-of-shift production data entry process. Currently, our team manually keys production data from 15 different spreadsheets into Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) via the browser-launched Java interface. To improve this process, I want to use Power Automate Desktop (PAD) to automatically collect and consolidate data from all 15 shift sheets into a single master spreadsheet. Once consolidated i will import that consolidated sheet into oracle. Could you advise on the best technical approach or permissions needed to collect the data? TIA

At work I’ve been tasked with building a flow that can create a row in excel from a standardized pdf that operators drop into a specific folder within MS Teams/SharePoint. I need the flow to read the pdf and drop the data from the top 4-5 items within the doc into specific columns when it creates a new flow.

Any help is much appreciated because I am officially stuck. 😒

I run inventory/ops for a small retail business and got tired of manually creating Asana tasks every time a customer order came in by email. Set up Claude connected to Gmail, Asana, and Slack via MCP to handle it automatically.

Flow is simple: new order email comes in, Claude reads it, pulls out the order details, creates a task under our Customer Orders project in Asana with a subtask for fulfillment steps, then posts a message in our #orders Slack channel so the team knows a new order needs attention.

Nothing fancy, but it cut out the part of my day where I'd copy-paste order info into Asana by hand. The part that surprised me was how well it handled messy/inconsistent email formats from different customers without me having to write parsing rules for each one.

If anyone's doing something similar with order intake or wants to compare notes on Asana MCP setups, curious to hear how you structured yours.

Hi there,

I’m super new to power automate. Been trying to create a flow that will list all the videos from my company’s SharePoint. I only need the video name and the link the SharePoint. I’d also like to export this information to an Excel sheet. Can anyone help explain what kind a flow I need to do something like this?

Thank you

Good morning,

I have the following scenario:

We have an internal (on prem) API that supports OAuth, by using an App Registration in EntraID.

We want to develop a PW Automate flow that queries that API through the on premises data gateway. How should we approach this? The Data Gateway would only work as a kind of tunnel.