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Google Photos in Power Apps

Fri, 28 May 2021 21:00:49 +0000

Ever wanted to build your own photo library in an app without using much code? In this post, you will learn how to connect to the Google Photos API and get photos from your Google account in Power Apps / Power Automate.

Before you start

In order to build a custom connector for Google Photos and use it in Power Apps, you will need at-least these before you start building

How to create an app to Scan Receipts

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 15:48:44 +0000

https://youtu.be/Kjb-Hnt_GpY

Comments:

How to create an app to Scan Receipts – ECELLORS CRM Blog - Jun 6, 2020

Managing Events Using Power Platform

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 03:00:18 +0000

https://youtu.be/ACD-E_1ihds

Managing Events Using Power Platform

OAuth 1.0 Connection in Power Automate | Post Tweets with user mentions and send DMs using Twitter API

Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:54:36 +0000

In this post, you will learn how to connect to an API with OAuth 1.0 authentication in Power Automate. Using this connection, we will connect to Twitter API to post tweets with @mentions and also send DMs with quick actions. The Twitter connector available in Power Automate doesn’t allow user mentions and also doesn’t have an action to send DMs.

Currently, it’s not possible to implement OAuth 1.0 directly in Power Automate as the HTTP action doesn’t have this type available in the list of authentication types. To overcome that, we will create an Azure function which connects to the Twitter API and then call the Azure function from Power Automate. Don’t worry if you haven’t created an Azure function before. I will walk through all the steps to create an Azure function as well

Spotify Custom Connector for Power Platform

Sun, 08 Dec 2019 08:44:17 +0000

Difficulty Level : Intermediate

License Requirement : Community Plan or Power Apps / Power Automate per app or per user plan

If you are not interested in the inception of this, skip the very interesting story and just jump to Let’s Create.

This whole idea started when I was on a road-trip from Cincinnati to Orlando with my #FlowFam ( Jon Levesque , Anton Robbins and Ed Gonzalez). We had more than 12 hours to spend and to make the most out of it we could only do one thing - Make a flow!

Hey Siri, Create a Support Ticket - with Eric McKinney from G&J Pepsi

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 09:07:36 +0000

https://youtu.be/JYHkVyFampM

Hello #PowerAddicts! In this video, I had the pleasure to chat with Eric McKinney from G&J Pepsi who watched mine and Jon Levesque’s video on connecting Siri to Flow and then made a support ticket system out of it within a few hours. Join us to learn how to use the iOS shortcuts app to trigger Siri, provide some inputs and then send it to Microsoft Flow to create a new ticket in a SharePoint List. This makes it much quicker (like 5 seconds) for G&J Pepsi’s employees to create a support ticket. You can find Eric on Twitter - https://twitter.com/rowdybrownsfan Watch Eric’s video at the Microsoft Inspire keynote here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA8aRy_WM4s Watch mine and Jon’s video on connecting Siri to Flow here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3B9Ivs9dxA

Alexa, ask Microsoft Flow to read out my latest e-mail

Mon, 11 Mar 2019 11:53:18 +0000

[tweet https://twitter.com/that_API_guy/status/1104836878107373570 ]

I posted this on twitter and got a lot of requests to create a blog on this , so here you go -

Why are we doing this?

We are all surrounded by different smart home devices and voice assistants around us. Wouldn’t it be great if we could use them to -

Add a task to To-Do
Read email/ send email
Read out calendar
Create a meeting invite
Add an item to SharePoint list and much more…

What do we need?

Microsoft Flow - If you don’t know what Microsoft Flow is , check out this video from Jon Levesque https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOr6wlH5Kgs and sign up for the free trial now!
Alexa device / Alexa app
Alexa Developer console account - Here is an overview of the developer console for your reference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-mrSBrlDso

Concept -

Open Meeting Links Automatically on Desktop | Microsoft Flow

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 09:04:35 +0000

Frustrated with always opening the meeting invite and clicking on the join Skype / Teams meeting?

Want to know how to automatically start the meeting window on your desktop a few minutes before any meeting starts?

You are at the right place! What you need -

Microsoft Flow
Pushbullet Account
Pushbullet API Access token (don’t get scared, it’s simple)

That’s all you need to automate your online meetings.

Step 1: Get the access token for Pushbullet API

After signing up for Pushbullet, go to My account and click on “Create Access Token” Copy this token and save it in some document / sticky note.