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Understanding Change limits option in Do until control – Power Automate

Within Do Until control in Power Automate we have the option of defining the limits i.e. how long the do until will run either based on count or timeout.

By default, the value for count is 60 and Timeout is PT1H which equates to 1 hour i.e. it will either run 60 times or will run for 1 hour which occurs first.

Let us set the count to 5 and test it.

We have also added the delay of 1 minute along with the condition for do until and triggering it on the update of a lead record.

As expected if the condition is not true, after running 5 times it stops successfully.

Now let us change the Timeout to 2 minute and we keep the count as 5.

As expected after 2 minutes (by that time it has looped 2 times with 1 min delay), the flow stops successfully.

The flow will also be successful when the Do until condition is met.

Here we can make use of Current Iteration Index property of Do until to find out the number of times it has looped.

To set the time out format –

https://www.digi.com/resources/documentation/digidocs/90001437-13/reference/r_iso_8601_duration_format.htm

Also check –

https://nishantrana.me/2022/05/17/fixed-invalid-template-unable-to-process-template-language-expressions-in-action-template-language-expression-cannot-be-evaluated-the-template-action-is-not-defined-in-the-current-scope/

https://nishantrana.me/2022/01/19/how-to-use-do-until-and-delay-in-power-automate/

https://nishantrana.me/2022/05/19/filter-rows-and-trigger-conditions-in-power-automate/

Hope it helps..

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Filter rows and Trigger Conditions in Power Automate

Filter rows and Trigger Conditions can be used to specify the condition on which the trigger should fire. This makes sure that we do not exceed flow execution limits.

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In the case of our Dataverse trigger “When a row is added, modified or deleted” we can make use of either Filter rows or Trigger Conditions, as we have both options available.

We’d be using Trigger Conditions for those triggers where we do not have additional property to specify the filter condition.

E.g. we want the flow to run only on a specific file in a library or based on the extension of the file as nicely explained here

https://tomriha.com/trigger-power-automate-flow-only-on-specific-file-in-a-library/

https://www.enjoysharepoint.com/trigger-conditions-in-power-automate/

Now out of curiosity, we tried specifying both Filter rows and Trigger conditions to see how it behaves.

Here for the same trigger we have specified Filter Rows as below

address1_city eq ‘Ahmedabad’

And Trigger Conditions as below

@equals(triggerOutputs()?[‘body/companyname’], ‘MS’)

During our test, we observed that the trigger is firing only when both the conditions or expressions, specified in Filter Rows as well as Trigger Conditions are true.

So basically it will only fire for those rows or records having Company as MS and City equal to Ahmedabad.

It will not fire if either of Filter Rows or Trigger Conditions expression evaluate to be false.

Hope it helps..

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Fixed – Unable to process template language expressions for trigger. In the template language function ‘convertToUtc’, the value provided for the time zone id ‘Gulf Standard Time’ was not valid while using Delay Until property– Power Automate

Recently while using Delay until property of the trigger, in one of the flows, we got the below error

“Unable to process template language expressions for trigger ‘When_a_row_is_added,_modified_or_deleted’ at line ‘1’ and column ‘16344’: ‘In the template language function ‘convertToUtc’, the value provided for the time zone id ‘Gulf Standard Time’ was not valid. ‘.”

Usage of Delay until is nicely explained here by Debajit –

https://debajmecrm.com/how-to-delay-a-power-automate-flow-execution-till-a-specified-date-and-time/

https://debajmecrm.com/replicate-dynamics-365-workflow-timeout-wait-condition-in-microsoft-flows/

Delay until = convertToUtc(‘2022-05-16T17:22:00′,’Gulf Standard Time’)

It turns out that Gulf Standard Time is not a valid time zone id.

Changing it to Arabian Standard Time resolved the issue for us.

i.e.

convertToUtc(‘2022-05-16T19:22:00′,’Arabian Standard Time’)

Also check – https://nishantrana.me/2022/01/19/how-to-use-do-until-and-delay-in-power-automate/

Hope it helps..

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Autonumber field values in case of exception in Dynamics 365 / CRM

Recently in one of our projects, where we were using the auto number attribute (with sequential numbers), we realized that it gets incremented even in case of an exception thrown during Pre Stage of the Plugin Execution. We were assuming the number gets incremented only after the record gets created i.e. on post-stage.

But as the documentation mentions, the number gets pre-selected as soon as the record is started.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/autonumber-fields

Let us see it in action also –

Here we have the lead record created with My Autonumber as the auto number column with seed as 1000

The auto number field has a value of 1009 currently.

Now let us register a plugin on the Pre-Create stage that throws the exception.

Let us try creating a new lead record, which as expected will throw the exception.

Let us try saving the record 3 times more, triggering the record creation as well as the plugin along with the exception.

Now let us disable the plugin step and save/create the record.

As expected the record gets created, and the auto number field has a value of 1014.

The same behavior was observed in case of Pre-Validation stage.

Hope it helps..

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Fixed – You can’t delete this queue because it has items assigned to it – Dynamics 365 Customer Service Hub / CRM

Recently while trying to delete some of the Queue (Advanced Queue) in our case, we were getting the below error.

You can’t delete this queue because it has items assigned to it. Assign these items to another user/team, or queue and try again.

We checked and there were no queue items assigned to that queue.

Eventually what worked was to Deactivate that Queue first and then we were able to delete it.

Hope it helps..

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How to – Create Administrative User Account for managing user / security roles, in Dynamics 365 / CRM

We recently wanted to create user accounts in CRM for managing users and their roles inside CRM, without accessing any of the data or functionality.

Below are the steps we can follow to achieve the same –

https://admin.microsoft.com/#/homepage

Add a user

Temporarily assign the license to the user

In optional settings, specify either Global Admin or Dynamics 365 Administrator / Power Platform admin role.

And create the user.

Next,

https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/

and navigate to [Environment] >> Settings >> Users

If the users is not yet synced try- https://nishantrana.me/2021/12/14/the-trick-to-force-trigger-user-sync-power-platform-dynamics-365/

Select the User and click on Client Access License (CAL) Information

Change it to Administrative and save the change.

Now back in Microsoft 365 Admin Center we can remove the license and the roles from the user’s account.

Back inside CRM the user will only have access to the Dynamics 365 – Custom app.

Inside app he gets the message No Read Privilege for data.

User will have access to following area within Settings

Inside Settings >> Security –

The administrative user can see the users –

Basically when a Global or Power Platform admins having license are synced to the environment, they get the access mode of Read-Write and also System Administrator security role is assigned to them.

That is the reason why we need to change the access mode to Administrative after sync.

If they do not have license assigned, there access mode is still “Read-Write” after sync but no security roles assigned. Also the unlicensed Global and Power Platform admin will have access to the administrative areas.

Also we could create a new custom security role having access to “Security Role” table instead of assigning System Administrator or copy of system admin role.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/prevent-elevation-security-role-privilege#assign-the-new-security-role-to-an-administrative-user

Get all the details here –

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/global-service-administrators-can-administer-without-license

Hope it helps..

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