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Help Needed: Best Practices for Power Automate Flows with SharePoint Integration

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Hi everyone,

I’m fairly new to Power Platform and have been exploring Power Automate over the past few weeks. I’m currently working on a project that involves automating a workflow between SharePoint and Outlook. The main goal is to trigger an email when a new item is added to a SharePoint list, but I’d also like to include additional logic (like conditional approvals or updating metadata based on the user input).

I’ve managed to set up a basic flow using the "When an item is created" trigger in SharePoint and the "Send an email (V2)" action, which works fine. However, I’m now trying to make it more robust and dynamic. A few questions I’m struggling with:

  1. Is there a better way to handle dynamic content from SharePoint fields to avoid null/empty issues?

  2. What are some best practices when structuring flows for long-term maintainability—especially when multiple people may work on or rely on the flow?

  3. How can I safely test changes without accidentally triggering real emails or affecting live data?

  4. Are there recommended templates or reusable components that I should be aware of when dealing with SharePoint-integrated flows?

I’d really appreciate any insights, examples, or even links to helpful resources you’ve found useful in similar scenarios. I’ve gone through some of the docs and mulesoft training in hyderabad tutorials but I’d love to hear from actual users on what’s worked (or not worked) in real projects.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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  • KevinGador Profile Picture
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    Help Needed: Best Practices for Power Automate Flows with SharePoint Integration
    1) use the coalesce() function to avoid null/empty values. Blank, Coalesce, IsBlank, and IsEmpty functions - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

    2) for readability use scopes , for maintainability usage of variables so if you have changes, you can easily change it 

    3) you can put the sending of email inside a condition where you can set a boolean variable for example isTest = true then the condition will go to the sending of email in test mode, then if its not isTest = false then the sending of email will be in live mode

     

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