Post #23 of our Build Flows Faster series covering our new utility actions for Power Automate. Today’s lesson is how to check text contains a value with Power Automate and Encodian utility actions.
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 and Vertr subscription allowance. For example, under a standard plan that permits 500 actions per month (uses), you could use the utility actions 10,000 times!
Our ‘Text Contains Value‘ utility action for Power Automate validates whether the text value (string) provided contains another specified text value, returning a boolean (true / false) value. The action provides some advanced configuration options which include enabling / disabling case sensitivity and setting the processing culture.
As with many of our utility actions, there are a myriad of scenarios where you may need to validate whether a text value contains another value. Therefore, we’ll focus on how the ‘Text Contains Value‘ utility action works instead of focusing on a specific scenario.
Consider the following basic and manually triggered flow:
Upon triggering the flow the user will be prompted for two values:
Let’s configure the flow to process the values provided and then send an email to share the result:
1. Add the ‘Text Contains Value‘ utility action
1.a Text: Select the ‘Text‘ property provided by the trigger action
1.b. Value: Select the ‘Value‘ property provided by the trigger action
2. Add the ‘Send me an email notification‘ action
2.a. Subject: Configure the email subject value as required
2.b. Body: Configure the email body as required, including the ‘Result‘ property provided by the ‘Text Contains Value‘ utility action
Execute the flow with the following example values:
This generates the following email:
This hopefully provides a good example of how to check text contains a value with Power Automate all through the power of our ‘Text Contains Value‘ utility action.
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