Power Automate Filter Query if Blank: Syntax for Every Column Type

Power Automate Filter Query If Blank

An HR team I worked with sent a weekly reminder to managers about incomplete employee records: missing job titles, missing phone numbers, missing start dates. The first version of their flow pulled all 1,200 records and checked each one in a loop, which took several minutes and used thousands of actions. A Filter Query that … Read more >>>

How to Check if a Date Is Blank in Power Automate

Check if date is empty in SharePoint JSON formatting in Power Automate

An HR coordinator I helped had an onboarding flow that sent new hires a welcome email with their start date. It worked for months, until someone added a new employee before the start date was confirmed. The flow failed with an error about a null value, and nobody noticed for a week. One blank-date check … Read more >>>

Power Automate contains() Function: Syntax and Examples

Power Automate Contains() Function

A training coordinator I worked with wanted an email every time someone signed up for a Java course in their SharePoint enrollment list. Their flow used contains() to check the course name, and it worked in testing. Then real sign-ups started, and it missed half of them. People had typed “java” and “JAVA”, and contains() … Read more >>>

How to Create Shortcuts in a SharePoint Document Library

Create Shortcuts in a SharePoint Document Library

At a marketing agency I worked with, the account team opened the same three folders every morning: the brand guidelines on the Marketing site, the client contracts on the Legal site, and their own project library. That’s a lot of clicking through site navigation. Ten minutes of setting up shortcuts saved each of them that … Read more >>>