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Welcome to This Should Still Work

Alex Weaver

20 Oct 2025 — 1 min read

Welcome to This Should Still Work — my corner of the internet where I document the fixes, workarounds, and discoveries I’ve picked up along the way.

Most of what I post will be about Microsoft’s Power Platform, but you’ll probably see the odd console repair or gaming detour too.

This site isn’t about big announcements or polished marketing fluff — it’s a reference point. For me. And for anyone else who’s ever shouted “Why doesn’t this just work?” at their screen.

First proper post coming soon.

When a Pipeline Breaks Because You Hard-Coded a SharePoint Template ID

Here’s one that got me recently. Quick preface: this is real. This is absolutely schoolboy error territory. I should know better. I do know better (honest). Yes, I know 🤣 The Setup We were using Azure DevOps to deploy a Power App solution from Dev into Test. Everything deployed cleanly.

When a Cloud Flow Stops Triggering… Even Though Nothing Is Wrong

So here’s a fun one I ran into recently. I had a Power Automate cloud flow — simple Dataverse trigger, nothing fancy — that did work at one point. After making some changes, it suddenly stopped firing. No errors. No warnings. Just… nothing. Naturally, I tried all the usual things: * deleting

Quick Tip: Getting a Dataverse Record from Your Browser Using the Web API

While working on Power Platform, I started to notice how much time I was spending just trying to find record details when testing. The default views don’t always show the info I need, and digging around the UI gets old fast. To make things worse, my production machine is

Send In-App Notifications from Cloud Flows in Power Platform

I recently started working on Power Platform and discovered there’s a built-in way to send in-app notifications to users. At first, I found plenty of examples showing how to send notifications from the front end using JavaScript, but not much on how to do it from a cloud flow.

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When a Pipeline Breaks Because You Hard-Coded a SharePoint Template ID

When a Cloud Flow Stops Triggering… Even Though Nothing Is Wrong

Quick Tip: Getting a Dataverse Record from Your Browser Using the Web API

Send In-App Notifications from Cloud Flows in Power Platform