How to make your Flic Button work in Microsoft Flow

Flic Buttons

Recently I got hold of a Microsoft Flow Flic button. In this post I’m going through the steps of configuring my Flic button and how you could use it. If you don’t have a flic button yet, then you can order yours on the flic site. Note that you will need to use your mobile connection to make your button work. So if you don’t have a connection on your mobile your flic button will not work either.

Sending out an email after a click

My aim of this post is to send out an email with a link to my current location. I will use a link like the one below:

http://maps.google.com/?q=<lat&gt;,<lng>

All I need to do is get my location using my flic. So I’ll start by creating a trigger.

Flow Trigger
Note that before this trigger will do anything you will have to assign the Flow action to your Flow button within the flic app. If you don’t do this the triggers will not start even though you. But that is not all!
You will have to make sure that the Include GPS information is included in your settings of the action.
Flow
Now you just have to include the following expression in your email and the link is sent!

concat('<a href=http://maps.google.com/?q=',triggerBody()?['latitude'],',',triggerBody()?['longitude'],'>I am here</a>')

Flow Flow
And I now receive an email
Email Here I am

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Is your business still running on paper trails, sprawling Excel files, or ageing Access databases? There's a better way — and I can show you exactly what it looks like. I'm the Technical Director of Vantage 365, a Microsoft solutions consultancy working with clients across the UK, the Netherlands, and worldwide. For over 30 years I've been turning messy, manual business processes into clean, automated systems that save time, reduce errors, and give teams the visibility they need to make better decisions. SharePains is not just any blog run by a Microsoft MVP. Have you ever used Try-Catch in Power Automate? The original post about Try-Catch in Power Automate can still be found on this site, https://sharepains.com/2018/02/07/try-catch-finally-in-power-automate-flow/ Or have you ever used the Pieter’s method to avoid variables and speed up your flows? https://sharepains.com/2020/03/11/pieters-method-for-advanced-in-flows/ You can contact me using contact@sharepains.com

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