Post #8 of our Build Flows Faster series covering our new utility actions for Power Automate. We will publish many more posts and accompanying videos over the coming weeks, but today’s lesson is how to compare text with Power Automate.
Our utility actions are targeted at helping you build flows more quickly with less complexity, and they brilliantly only use 0.05 actions from your Encodian Flowr subscription allowance. For example, under a standard plan that permits 500 actions per month (uses), you could use the utility actions 10,000 times!
The ‘Compare Text‘ utility action compares the two text values provided returning a Boolean value where ‘true’ means the text values provided are equal, and ‘false’ means the text values provided are different.
As with many of our utility actions, there are myriad of scenarios where you may need to compare two text values, therefore we’ll focus on how the ‘Compare Text‘ utility action works as opposed to a specific scenario. Consider the following basic and manually triggered flow, where two text values are providing:
1. Add the ‘Utility – Compare Text‘ utility action to the flow
1.a. Primary Text: Select the first text value to compare, for this example I’ve selected the ‘Text One‘ property provided by the trigger action.
1.b. Secondary Text: Select the second text value to compare, for this example I’ve selected the ‘Text Two‘ property provided by the trigger action.
2. Add a ‘Condition‘ action to the flow
2.a. Value: Select the ‘Result‘ property provided by the Encodian ‘Utility – Compare Text‘ utility action
2.b. Condition: Select the ‘equal to‘ option
2.c. Value: Enter ‘true‘
3. Configure your flow to perform the required steps depending on whether the GUID is valid (true) or invalid (false). For this example I’ll simply send a notification to confirm whether the values provided were the same or different.
If you require further advice on how to compare text with Power Automate or support regarding Encodian utility actions, please email our support team at support@encodian.com where the team would be delighted to help.
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UPDATE: We’re excited to announce some significant updates to Flowr for Power Automate! As of October 2024, we’ve improved by updating action names and splitting Flowr’s central Power Automate connector into nine specialized connectors. These changes will make your workflow faster, smoother, and more efficient. The new action names are more precise and intuitive, saving you time, while the focused connectors enhance performance and flexibility. This update also helps future-proof the platform for even more powerful features. Check out our updated action names blog.
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