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Jagdish Kumawat
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Fixed: "The provided workflow run action name has these invalid characters" (InvalidWorkflowRunActionName) in Power Automate

· 5 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

Publishing my flow failed with Flow save failed with code 'InvalidWorkflowRunActionName'. The message named a condition I had called Anyone left to approve? and the character it didn't accept: the question mark. Renaming both of the flow's conditions without one let it publish.

Fixed: "The input parameter(s) of operation contains invalid expression(s)" in Power Automate

· 7 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

Publishing my flow failed with The input parameter(s) of operation 'Ask_the_manager' contains invalid expression(s). The expression was one Power Automate had written for me, from a token I picked. The cause was an apostrophe in the name of the action it read from, Get the employee's manager. Renaming that action and picking the token again fixed it.

Build an Overtime Timesheet App in Power Apps — Part 7: Build the My Overtime Screen

· 44 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

People can log their overtime; this screen shows them what they've logged. It lists a month of their entries with a status badge on each, adds up the month and each Monday-to-Sunday week, moves between months, and lets them correct an entry until it's approved, by opening it on the Log Overtime screen.

How to Stop Editing an Item Once It's Approved in Power Apps

· 6 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

Requests should be easy to correct until someone approves them, and fixed after that. In a gallery, give each row an Edit button whose Visible is ThisItem.Status.Value <> "Approved": pending and rejected rows can be opened, approved ones can't. When an edited item is saved, set its status back to Pending, so the change is approved too.

How to Exclude the Item Being Edited from a LookUp in Power Apps

· 7 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

A check for clashes or duplicates that works when adding an item finds the item itself when you edit it. The fix is to skip that item, but SharePoint can't run ID <> x on its ID column, so put it in the query and nothing is delegated. Instead, let SharePoint find the matches with a query it can run, hold them in memory with With, and skip the edited item there.