Every week there are new connectors added to Power Apps and Power Automate. This week I’m looking at two community connectors that were added recently by on of the Power Platform community leaders, Daniel Laskewitz.
Community connectors
Until recently, it was possible to submit your custom connectors to APIs that you owned, however this has been made easier to that publicly available APIs can be used for connectors and community members can submit the custom connectors using these APIs without too much effort.
Recently two new must have connectors were added.
- icanhazdadjoke
- Chuck Norris IO
In flows you can use these to get some random jokes returned.
Now if we take a serious app
We can add, a joke to the top of the screen. Just imagine how many people will start to use your app, just to read the daily jokes.
All you have to do is add a connection to the icanhazdadjoke connector and then use the following line of code:
'icanhazdadjoke(IndependentPublisher)'.FetchRandomJoke().jokeMaybe rather than FetchRandomJoke it should have been called GetTheJoke but this connector does show how easy it is to create your own connector.
Which connector are you going to submit?
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Pieter Veenstra
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