References that build faster
Cheat sheets, interactive helpers, and standards for Power Platform development — Power Fx, expressions, HTML email, HTTP, and the conventions that keep a solution maintainable.
Adaptive Cards Toolkit
Design cards that render as native UI across Teams, Outlook, and bots — no HTML required. A live designer with a JSON editor and starter gallery, filterable cheat sheets for every element, container, input, and action, and the rules for posting cards from Power Automate and embedding them in Outlook actionable messages.
Power Fx Cheat Sheet
Find the right Power Fx formula fast — the low-code language behind Power Apps, cards, and Copilot Studio. Filterable cheat tables for text, logic, tables, error handling, people, choices, theming, offline storage, and components, plus the delegation rules that decide whether a formula scales.
Expressions & JSON Cheat Sheet
Write cloud-flow expressions that just work. A filterable playground over every Workflow Definition Language function — string, collection, logical, date, encoding, and reference — plus JSON, array, and date cookbooks, and the gotchas (no dateDiff, body vs outputs, float drift) that burn everyone.
Regex Reference
Validate and extract text with confidence using IsMatch, Match, and MatchAll across canvas apps, model-driven apps, Copilot Studio, and Power Pages. A full syntax cheat sheet, the cross-platform subset Power Fx actually allows, and copy-paste recipes for emails, phones, GUIDs, and strong passwords.
HTTP Requests & APIs
Call any API from a flow with confidence. The premium HTTP action end to end — authentication (OAuth, Key Vault, Managed Identity, certificates, SAS), OData querying, file handling, inbound webhooks, async polling, throttling and $batch — plus a copy-paste cookbook for Graph, SharePoint, Dataverse, and Azure DevOps, and a request builder that scaffolds the action JSON with query params, auth presets, and a cURL equivalent.
JSON Schema for Parse JSON
Stop Parse JSON failing at run time. The exact schema dialect behind the Parse JSON action and the "When a HTTP request is received" trigger — types, properties, required, items, and the nullable patterns that survive messy real-world payloads. Paste a sample into the generator for a ready-to-use schema, complete with required-array switches and a "never fails" nullable mode.
HTML Email Toolkit
Build emails that survive Outlook’s Word rendering engine. A live preview gallery of ready-made templates, a battle-tested responsive boilerplate, VML bulletproof buttons, and practical guidance on responsiveness, accessibility, dark mode, and deliverability — plus the rules for sending rich HTML from Power Automate’s “Send an email (V2)” action.
Power BI / DAX Cheat Sheet
Get the right number out of DAX — and a model that scales. Searchable cheat tables for aggregations, iterators, CALCULATE and filter context, time intelligence, variables, and window functions, plus calculation groups, Power Query (M), and the data-modeling and performance rules that decide whether a report stays fast.
Connectors Reference
Choose the right connector and stay clear of the licensing and throttling traps. What a connector actually is, triggers vs actions, standard vs premium (and who pays to run it), polling vs webhook triggers and their wake-up intervals, connections and connection references for ALM, custom and on-premises connectors — plus the limits that bite in production: Power Platform request allocations, 429 throttling, message size, timeouts, and concurrency.
Best Practices & Standards
Ship automations that survive production, not just the demo. Battle-tested rules for error handling, reliability, performance, testing, monitoring, security, governance, and licensing — plus a pre-merge code-review checklist and a mapping to the Power Platform Well-Architected pillars.
Governance & DLP
Keep a Power Platform estate safe and supportable as it scales past one maker. Data loss prevention (DLP) policies and connector classification, Managed Environments, environment strategy and groups, the CoE Starter Kit, and the tenant-level controls — tenant isolation, IP firewall, sharing limits, auditing — that draw the trust boundaries around your data.
Naming Conventions & ALM
Make a Power Platform estate searchable, supportable, and deployable. Naming patterns for every component type — flows, Dataverse, plugins, apps, Power BI — plus a practical, source-controlled ALM pipeline: pac CLI, Power Platform Pipelines, Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, deployment settings, versioning, and rollback.
Dataverse Developer Reference
Work Dataverse like a developer, not just a maker. The relational, secure platform under Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dynamics 365 — tables and column types, relationships, the OData v4 Web API and query options, FetchXML, the plug-in event pipeline and SDK, and the security-role model of privileges, access levels, business units, and teams.
Copilot Studio Cheat Sheet
Build agents that actually ship — grounded, governed, and able to act. Topics and nodes, generative vs classic orchestration, Power Fx in the conversation, variables and entities, knowledge sources and grounding, tools and actions, authentication, channels, ALM, and the analytics that tell you whether it works.
SharePoint Patterns
Build on SharePoint Online without the surprises. The REST/OData API surface, list-item CRUD with the right headers, querying and expanding lookup/person fields, surviving the 5,000-item list view threshold with column indexing, throttling and $batch, unique permissions and role assignments, document-library file handling (including chunked large-file upload), and the Power Automate connector patterns that pull it all together.
Power Automate Desktop Patterns
Build RPA that survives the unattended run. Power Automate Desktop end to end — variables and the % notation, data types and structures, control flow, error handling, UI, browser, and Excel automation, cloud orchestration, plus the FlowLibs copy-paste designer syntax that pairs with the PAD skills.
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