From the Microsoft Power Platform blogs: AI Builder; Export to Excel; Canvas apps offline

In this week’s Power Platform blog roundup:

• Using AI Builder with Power Automate
• Export Power BI to Excel with Power Automate
• Offline capabilities in the canvas app within Dynamics

Using AI Builder with Power Automate

On the PowersApps 911 blog, Patrick Cooley wrote that he recently experienced the excitement of using data captured AI Builder models in a Power Automate cloud flow. To get this kind of functionality in the past he had used Power Automate Desktop, though it was a little clunky.

Cooley stated that AI Builder is available from the Power Apps maker portal. He also explained exactly how to find it. He wrote that in this blog post he wanted to focus on using the AI models portion to demonstrate how to use an existing model to pull data into Power Automate.

He explained how to choose a model, then offered details about how to filter results and provide an example on how to extract information from invoices, which is one of the most popular models.

Export Power BI to Excel with Power Automate

Writing on his blog, Damien Bird compared two methods that are much faster and more reliable than the traditional method of using an "apply to each" loop to export data from Power BI to an Excel file using Power Automate.