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Qualys CSAM API – Index 1 out of bounds for length 1
A niche error probably, just my luck being stuck with it for a major part of my Friday evening today. Qualys CSAM API. You authenticate against it like this:curl -X POST...
View ArticleThudarum (Malayalam movie)
Just returned from watching “Thudarum” in the theatres. Had high hopes, to be honest, but returned disappointed. I suppose I was expecting another “Drishyam”, and while the movie gave such vibes until...
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Power Apps – OnChange and Text Input
Trying to learn Power Apps for an app I am developing. According to the docs, one gets the impression the OnChange triggers whenever there’s a change. Here’e the exact sentence: Actions to perform when...
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Power Apps – Split
Some notes as I go along figuring out the Split function in Power Apps. The syntax is like this: Split( Text, Separator ) And it breaks up the Text along the Separator. There doesn’t seem to be a regex...
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Power Apps – Using color variables in HTML
In Power Apps you can add HTML blocks. Like this: What if I want to store the color in a variable though? A good practice is to store the colors etc. you use as variables. So, I have a variable defined...
View ArticleThe Four Seasons (TV show)
Shout out to “The Four Seasons” on Netflix. Based on the banner I was expecting it to be something like “The White Lotus” or similarly themed shows, but it was surprisingly not. (Didn’t realize it was...
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Power Apps – Select a Tab list control item via a Button control
Was trying to figure this out and the blog posts I came across via Google didn’t help. Here’s what I want to do. I have a Tab list control like this: This is what its Items property looks like:[ "Page...
View ArticlePower Apps – Concatenate but skip empty
I have a text control in Power Apps that I need to be the concatenate of a number of variables with a dot in between. It’s pretty straight forward and in theory all I need do is something like cvVar1...
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Power Apps – The server did not receive a response from an upstream server.
Created a Power Automate that I can call from Power Apps. The steps are straight forward: I am using Solutions, so I created a new Power Automate in the same solution. And at the end of the Flow I...
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Power Automate – Create an array out of an extracted property
For some reason this trivial task took me about an hour to figure out today! Which sucks, especially coz this is something I have done a lot of times… but it’s been a while since I dabbled with Power...
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Power Apps – Principal user is missing prvReadWorkflow privilege
Got a Power App. Which calls a Flow. The Flow is set to run with a different account – i.e. not the user running the Power App. In my dev environment thing work fine, and when I launch the app with my...
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Power Apps – Environment Variables
I use environment variables a lot in Power Automate. Useful to set, well, environment level variables, such as the type (prod/ dev), approver group prefixes per environment, and so on. I couldn’t...
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Power Apps – Show version from solution
Next thing I wanted to do today. Show the version of the app I am developing. Sure, I could create a variable in the app with the version and show that, but where’s the fun in that. My solution has a...
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Power Automate – Azure Table Storage 1000 items
Doesn’t say so anywhere, but the Azure Table Storage connector Get Entities action has a 1000 items limit. Bit me in the a$$ yesterday when demoing something I created and the one person I happened to...
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Adam Becker’s “More Everything Forever”
I came across More Everything Forever via a Mastodon recommendation. Looked interesting and not so rosy eyed view of AI and Silicon Valley, so I gave it a listen. The book just released last week in...
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Azure Functions improved authentication experience
Was creating a new Function App today and noticed this. Nice work Microsoft! I don’t know when it was released (the last time I created a Function App was in April I think, so sometime in the last...
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Creating a Custom Connector to authenticate against Entra ID authenticated...
This post is a sort of continuation to my previous posts like this and this. And probably not as clear as it could be coz I assume some prior knowledge. Plus I am figuring out a lot of stuff as I go...
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Creating a Custom Connector to authenticate against Entra ID authenticated...
One problem with Power Apps and connectors is that it uses the details of the signed in user. Unlike Power Automate there’s no way to select what account the connector runs under. There’s no harm with...
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Power Apps – onStart delays and showing progress with a clock ⏰
I have a power app that does some work in the onStart section that takes a few seconds to complete. When users click a button on the main screen, they are taken to the second screen. Thing is, if users...
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Maranamass (Malayalam movie)
Happened to catch Maranamass on SonyLiv yesterday. I had zero expectations regarding the movie as I wasn’t aware of it at all! Somehow YouTube never showed me its trailers so I had no clue. Starring...
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TIL: You can’t get access tokens to more than one resource in a single call
A colleague was trying to get access tokens via a call like this:https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenantID}/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?client_id={clientID} &response_type=code &redirect_uri={url}...
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Power Apps – Updates to custom connector not being picked up
I have a custom connector that calls an Azure Function. I changed the outputs of one of the Functions in the Azure Function App, and also updated it in the custom connector. But the Power App refuses...
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Power Apps – Custom Connector and Key Vault secrets
One problem with using a custom connector with OAuth2 authentication is that you need to add it to your solution and while you set a secret when creating it, that isn’t captured when you export it...
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Power Apps – Why are variables not on my main screen loading on the app OnStart?
I have two screens in my Power App. One’s the main screen, then a second screen. There’s a bunch of variables on the second screen that must only load after the first screen has fully loaded – i.e....
View ArticleYou (TV show)
Been bing-watching “You” on Netflix the past few weeks and absolutely loving it! Well, until end of Season 3 at least, which is when I am writing this. One of those shows that keeps getting better each...
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Power Apps – The clipboard doesn’t contain any YAML code to paste
Weird one, but if you get this error when copy pasting in Power Apps studio: Double check that you are not on make.powerautomate.com, and if so go to make.powerapps.com instead! Must be something in...
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Why is Azure Storage Account ignoring the IP exceptions?
Such a niche issue! Wasted 3 hours of mine and a colleague’s life yesterday as we tried to get to the bottom of it. And another hour of mine today as I finally resolved it. Phew! Here’s the issue. I...
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PSA: Firefox can now close remote tabs!
This is so exciting! Something I’ve wanted Firefox to be able to do for so long. I use the synced tabs feature in Firefox a lot. All my Firefox instances are on the same account, and often when I am on...
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Calling a Logic App from Freshservice Workflow Automator using OAuth2.0...
In a similar vein to my previous post on calling an Azure Function from Freshservice Workflow Automator using OAuth2.0 authentication – here’s what I did for Logic Apps. As before, I create an App...
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“One or more claims either missing or does not match with the open...
Trying to call a Power Automate that is triggered by an HTTP request that requires authentication. Interestingly, the official docs only give one side of the story – how to set it up. There’s no info...
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