Bauer Automate - Blog Posts , UncategorizedBauer Automate - Blog Posts , Uncategorizedhttps://www.bauerautomate.com/blogs/UncategorizedSun, 08 Mar 2026 16:12:28 -0700http://zoho.com/sites/<![CDATA[An interesting work around for version history in Power Automate]]>https://www.bauerautomate.com/blogs/post/an-interesting-work-around-for-version-history-in-power-automate Have you ever made a change to a Power Automate flow, only to run it and realize you need to undo them? For all the reasons you might nee ]]>

Using previous flow runs to restore your flow changes

Have you ever made a change to a Power Automate flow, only to run it and realize you need to undo them? For all the reasons you might need a previous version of a flow, version history is not yet available in general availability at the time of writing. Even if it was, without good version comments, this is still a challenge. I've also had trouble using the new editor and the undo function. 


I don't know how it happened, but I accidentally right clicked on a step in a flow run history within the new view and noticed that the "Copy action" was available on the step. 

I copied that into another flow and confirmed it worked as if I had copied the step within the editor. I also had some changes to undo in my current flow, so I was able to go back to the last few runs and reconstruct the steps I'd deleted within seconds!


Now you have 28 days of version history from each instance you ran from the tests that we both know you ran after each major change 😉

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]]>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:47:24 -0600<![CDATA[Using Power Automate to Create a Photo Library and Add it to the Navigation]]>https://www.bauerautomate.com/blogs/post/using-power-automate-to-create-a-photo-library-and-add-it-to-the-navigationA quick process for adding a photo library to a site!]]>

Adding a photo library programmatically

One of our clients came to us with a request for creating a SharePoint site automatically based on a project management list. If a project was set to "Start", then a SharePoint site would be created. That will be covered in another article, but one of the interesting asks was to automatically include a photo library that would also be displayed in the QuickLaunch Navigation.

I referenced this article for the API syntax: http://www.ludovicperrichon.com/sharepoint-rest-api-call-with-powerautomate/#createlink

  1. Create your flow however you like, a simple way to set this up is to create an instant flow and use the button trigger with a single input for the SiteURL. 
  2. Create a "Send HTTP request to SharePoint" step. 
    1. Site address: SiteURL
    2. Method: POST
    3. URI: _api/web/lists
    4. Headers:   
      1. Accept | application/json;odata=verbose
      2. Content-Type | application/json;odata=verbose
    5. Body: 

      6. {

      "__metadata":{

      "type": "SP.List"

      },

      "AllowContentTypes": true,

      "BaseTemplate": 109,

      "ContentTypesEnabled": false,

      "Description": "Photo library for __________",

      "Title": "Photos"

      }

  3. Add another "HTTP to SharePoint" step
    1. Site address: SiteURL
    2. Method: POST
    3. URI: _api/web/Navigation/QuickLaunch
    4. Headers:   
      1. Accept | application/json;odata=verbose
      2. Content-Type | application/json;odata=verbose
    5. Body: 

      6. {

      "__metadata": { "type": "SP.NavigationNode"},

      "IsExternal": false,

      "Title": "Photos",

      "Url": "SITEURL/photos"
      }


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