This is post #24 of our Build Flows Faster series, covering our new utility actions for Power Automate. Today’s lesson covers how to ‘Trim Text’ in Power Automate with Encodian utility actions.
Our utility actions are targeted at helping you build flows more quickly with less complexity. 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!
The ‘Trim Text‘ utility action for Power Automate ‘Trims’ the text value (also referred to as a string) provided as per the configuration specified, returning the processed text value.
The action provides a ‘Trim Position’ option, which controls where the text value is trimmed:
Additionally, the ‘Trim Characters’ option can specify additional characters that should be removed from the text value. Consider the following example;
As with many of our utility actions, there are many scenarios where you may need to trim a text value. Therefore, we’ll focus on how the ‘Trim Text‘ 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 text value provided before emailing the result.
1. Add the ‘Trim Text‘ utility action
1.a Text: Select the ‘Text‘ property provided by the trigger action
1.b. Trim Position: Select the ‘TrimStartAndEnd‘ option
1.c. Trim Characters: Select the ‘Characters‘ 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 ‘Trim Text‘ utility action
Execute the flow with the following example values:
This generates the following email:
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