Ask an All-Star: Alex Wong Shares His Developer Expertise!

Crystal Bruce

Blackbaud Community All-Star Alex Wong answered your questions in the community about SKY API, SKY Add-in, Microsoft Power Automate, and Microsoft Power BI in Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®. We’ve compiled those questions and answers for you in this blog!All-Star Alex Wong has used Blackbaud products since 2012. He loves being challenged with a complicated business problem and solving it with high code, low code and no code Dev Ops skill sets.



Recently, we held an Ask an All-Star session in the Raiser's Edge NXT community where he shared his developer knowledge.



Below is a recap of the questions and Alex's answers:



Q: I get asked a lot about this or have community member run into flow error b/c they were using New Designer. So the question is, how *not* to use the “new” designer.



A: Microsoft has introduced the new designer not only to editing of flow, but also now to the “viewing” of run history. I have found this to be very annoying as the “new” run history view is VERY processor intensive when you have a lot of actions in the flow. On the upper right corner of the flow (editor or viewer), you have the option to turn off “new designer”. However, I recently notice that this “switch” doesn't always work, so if it doesn't, you can edit the URL to turn off the new designer (which is consider v3 of the designer).



Q: I am running into an issue linking power automate to my FTP “hosted files” in RENXT. I update the power automate with the information provided in the FTP access account information. When I go to run the flow it says it Can't Connect. Would love any advise you have to fix the issue?



A: Please see this post: https://community.blackbaud.com/forums/viewtopic/586/63726. While the original post is for Azure hosted, the replies has information about Blackbaud hosted.