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The 5 worst things about Power Automate Part one of a six-part series of blogs |
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To try to show what developing Power Automate flows is like, we've created two blogs: one listing out its 5 best features, and one listing its 5 worst ones. This is the pessimistic one!
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One of the best ways to understand software is to understand its strengths and weaknesses (this is probably true of anything or anyone in life too). In this spirit, I offer here my personal take of the 5 most annoying features in Power Automate.
If you're a glass-half-full sort of person, you may prefer to read my companion blog listing the 5 best features of Power Automate instead! Or you could combine the two to get a more balanced verdict ...
My 5 Power Automate pet hates are:
Number | Feature | Notes |
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1 | Clunky user interface | It's too hard to see all of your actions, or move them round the screen. |
2 | Expressions | Not only is the Power Automate expression syntax unnecessarily complicated, but the editor doesn't take any prisoners either. |
3 | JSON | I resent having to analyse the structure of JSON text strings to get at the information I want! |
4 | Lack of ease of use | It can be unintuitive working out how to accomplish things in Power Automate flows. |
5 | You can't disable actions | It's only a small thing, but it continually annoys me: why can't you temporarily disable actions in a flow, with a view to reinstating them later? |
Just to reiterate: I have the utmost respect for Microsoft. It's not easy (in fact I think it's extremely difficult) to make software powerful but at the same time easy to use, and I think on balance Microsoft do a very good job.
But ...
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