• ArtVandelay@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          I guess I’m so used to thinking in code, and power automate seems hell-bent on being aimed at More business oriented folks. I find it extremely unintuitive, and downright hostile in terms of actually getting something done that I know how to do, but I’m not allowed to.

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            10 months ago

            100%. Power automate doing anything other than the templates they have is almost always harder than just writing python

            • SkippingRelax@lemmy.world
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              I think you nailed it. Why as a developer admin in a corporation one would use powerautomate? At my last job I had to, as I dodnt have machines to physically run some tools and automation my team needed, or access to higher level stuff but that sounds to me like an Oracle sysadmin complaining that Access is a pain in the ass, just don’t use it…

          • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            That’s why I use Powershell with the Graph API module. Of course running scripts is probably disabled for non admins.

        • vin@lemmynsfw.com
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          10 months ago

          Power automate has so much potential and promise, but it just sucks to implement anything more than built in templates.

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            9 months ago

            Hardly an end user problem though? I’m used to get it through corporate deals at work and in an organisation I volunteer for. Slightly different setups and access to tools but not through end of the world

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      10 months ago

      I was going to say: the office environment doesn’t stuck that much, or rather it’s not aimed at people with advanced programing knowledge.

      For people who have no or little IT knowledge it’s actually very handy.

      I’ve learned a little bit of programming during my studies (mostly R) and I’m now working in a big company.

      Power automate is so useful and nearly ALL parts of the office ecosystem is accessible to it. And it’s possible to use it with very little coding knowledge.

      It’s now my main tool of work (with excel).