Power Apps · Defaults and forms
Power Apps defaults and Reset: five worked examples
Set dropdown defaults, clear text inputs, match combo box records and reset forms. Follow five examples with made-up data and expected results.
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Practical Power Apps and Power Automate guides
Find the problem you are working on and follow an example. These free Microsoft 365 guides explain common app and automation issues, show what to try and help you check the result.
Find the problem you are working on
Working across other tools? Browse the wider automation library for Zapier, Make, n8n and AI workflow examples. This collection focuses on Power Apps, Power Automate and Microsoft data sources.
Power Automate guide
Power Automate dates and time zones: 5 worked examples
Fix wrong dates in Power Automate with five examples covering local yesterday, UTC conversion, date-only values, daylight saving and daily report boundaries.
See the examplesPower Automate guide
Fix Power Automate Parse JSON errors: 5 worked examples
Fix Parse JSON errors with five examples covering objects, arrays, optional fields, nulls, numbers and IDs that start with zero.
See the examplesPower Automate / SharePoint / Get items
Power Automate Get items: filter queries and missing rows
Find the SharePoint rows you need with five examples. Try text, number and date filters, then check whether any records are missing.
See the examplesPower Automate / Arrays
Need one summary instead of one email per row?
Use Select and Join to make a readable summary. Check what happens when Get items returns zero, one or many results.
Read the array-to-string guidePower Apps / Saving data
Patch says there is a network error?
Try a small update to check the connection, permissions, selected record and field types.
Troubleshoot Patch errorsPower Apps
Missing SharePoint records?
Check delegation, search by the start of a title and test records beyond the small sample loaded by the app.
Read the delegation guidePower Automate
Which SharePoint edits should start work?
Choose which edits should start a flow, check which columns changed and plan for possible repeat runs.
Read the trigger guidePower Automate
What happens when the report flow fails?
Group your flow steps in scopes, make failures easy to find and check what finished before you retry.
Read the error-handling guideExcel / Reporting
Build a weekly report people can check
Try the free workbook with made-up data. Agree the report date, when work counts as overdue and how to show missing information.
Open the guide and Excel templatePower Apps / Planning
Excel, SharePoint or Dataverse?
Compare how each option handles shared updates, linked records, permissions and day-to-day use.
Compare the data sourcesWorkflow planning
Is this process ready to automate?
Decide what to automate, who owns it, what could go wrong and how you will check that it works.
Use the planning checklistWhat to expect from these guides
Need the full process? Follow the invoice intake and review workflow or approval and reminder workflow. Both include Power Automate setup and six worked examples.
Each technical guide links to Microsoft documentation, explains what its examples assume and gives you checks to run before changing a live workflow. The examples use made-up data. They are not client case studies or measured business results.
If you want help building or fixing something, bring the current process, an example of the problem and what a good result would look like. A workflow review helps you work through one process; Power Apps consulting covers an app project with agreed requirements.
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