1 Quick Tip – Think positive conditions in Power Automate

This is a quick tip blog post about Power Automate conditions in Power Automate. With the new(?) development UI, it is important to think positive.

Conditions in Power Automate

WE will probably all have done this at some point. You create a flow and Add a bunch of steps. And then inside your flow you have a condition that checks if there are any

Or maybe the following example is a bit more obvious. We check if there is a site if the site doesn’t exists then create a site.

Open a flow with conditions

Now if we reopen the above flow then Microsoft have been clever and managed to sped up the flow load by only giving us the first three steps.

As we open up the condition, yet another clever way of speeding up the load time of the flow. Only the steps in the true branch are shown

As we didn’t need to do anything when a site exists, the false branch shows 1 action and the true branch is showing no steps. That is a bit silly.

Quick tip

So to help ourselves, I quick tip. Even if you are still using the classic UI to develop your flows. If you have a condition that only runs step in the False branch, it is better to move the steps to the true branch and reverse the logic on your condition. It will make it easier to open up the full flow in the future.

For more tips and tricks please read The Ultimate Power Automate User Guide.