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How to get all product backlog items from Azure DevOps with Power Automate
Normally you would think it should be quite easy to retrieve the product backlog items (PBIs) from Azure DevOps since it is all Microsoft and there are super nice connectors but it actually is not. To be fair there is the "List work items" action but you need to enter the Work Item IDs and when you just want to retrieve all PBIs without entering all the numbers this just does not make any sense. At first glance this action was the most helpful one of all the actions there are
Matthias Schmitz
Jan 132 min read
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How to hide related entities on a model driven app form
In a recent project I got the question how to hide related entity of an entity several times. So, here we go. New blog post. This is actually something that Microsoft made easier with the new UI of the model driven app editor. And you do not need any scripting whatsoever. You just go the form in which you want to hide the related entities. You click on Related and on the right side you can select Hide as seen in the screenshot on the right side: If you want to achieve the sam
Matthias Schmitz
Nov 25, 20251 min read
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How to find a Teams channel message with Power Automate
In a recent project I had the need to find a specific message in a Teams channel which was one of many replies to the initial channel message. I could not find an article about this online, so here we go! To demonstrate this, I chatted a little with myself and sent channel replies back and forth: In this example the Request number was sent as a channel message and we need this in a flow. And yes, I know, the example is not the best but it will be helpful nevertheless :) To ac
Matthias Schmitz
Aug 14, 20251 min read
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Dataflow not editable - Solved
Dataflows can be nice to transfer data from one system to the other but in the same time also very tricky. I want to cover two topics today: Edit dataflows in solutions Edit dataflows of other people Edit dataflows in solutions Have you ever tried editing a dataflow in a solution? If yes, you know what you mean. It will not work... I don't know why but you can only edit a dataflow in the Dataflows tab: Bug or feature? Speaking about bugs: Normally I work in English only. Some
Matthias Schmitz
May 19, 20252 min read
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