Power Automate - Category - Martin P Lopez | Power Platform Consultant

“Can I Bring Someone?” Solving Plus-One Waitlisting in Customer Insights Journeys (Part 1)

Martin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Events are rarely a solo experience.

In many scenarios, attendees want to bring a guest — a colleague, a partner, or a friend. But in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Journeys, handling “plus one” scenarios is not supported out-of-the-box.

This creates a real problem:

Your event shows 1 registration
But 2 people actually show up

Multiply that across dozens of attendees… and suddenly your event is over capacity.

In this article, I’ll show you how to solve this using:

Clean Up Dataverse File Columns with Power Automate

Martin — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A few weeks after delivering a Power Automate process that generates and stores PDFs in a Dataverse file column, my client asked for something simple:

“Can we make this process run on demand?”

That’s when I hit an unexpected limitation:

You cannot clear a Dataverse File column using “Update a row”.

I assumed it would be straightforward. But when I tried to use the Update a Row action, the file column didn’t even appear 😐

Personalized Christmas Emails in Seconds with Power Automate + AI

Martin — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

When I was a kid, I remember spending hours preparing Christmas cards by hand - paper, crayons, glitter, and a lot of patience. Writing a thoughtful message, waiting for the glue to dry, finding a stamp, and finally dropping the envelope into the school mailbox was all part of the ritual.

Today, very few people send physical Christmas cards anymore. But the intention behind them hasn’t changed: letting people know we’re thinking of them and that they matter.