Canvas App: Office365Users.Search UserV2 not working, but V1 does
Scenario: Currently, I am working on the New Environment Request app. As a part of the solution, we add the environment business Owner which as we know is different from the Owner field populated by default with the name of the user who physically spins the environment. Therefore, on the form, we allow a user to pick an Owner from the list of users. Solution: We will use Office… Continue Reading Olena Grischenko...
Co-pilot with Power Pages: new features to generate UI
Co-pilot with Power Pages Learn to generate Power Pages page ideas with the pre-defined layout, described color scheme, and purpose. Continue Reading Olena Grischenko (she/her)’s Article on their blog Co-pilot with Power Pages: new features to generate UI https://youtu.be/M7HbJ8QNAcU Co-pilot with Power Pages Learn to generate Power Pages page ideas with the pre-defined layout, described color scheme, and purpose. Blog...
Power Pages Copilot – YouTube
Overview of AI-powered and Copilot features in Power Pages (preview) Learn how design Power Pages sites using AI-powered and Copilot features. Explore new UI features for co-pilot with Power Pages....
Power Automate: Send approval email to external customer
To remind myself for the future discussions. Thank you very much, Mira! MG #Power automate #Approvals #External Guests Approvals in power automate are very nice interactive feature to process requests and documents! They can be integrated with CDS, SharePoint online and Onedrive. Here is a link to creation of Approvals walk-though when an item is created in a sharepoint… Continue Reading Olena Grischenko (she/her)’s...
Power Platform DLP Policy: blocking HTTP connectors won’t impact child Flows
Previously known issue Call Child Flows – Power Automate Flows can now call other flows and pass parameters to them. “If you block the HTTP Request connector via data loss prevention (DLP), child flows are also blocked because child flows are implemented using the HTTP connector. Work is underway to separate DLP enforcement for child flows so that they are treated like other cloud flows.” <h2… Continue Reading Olena...
Power Platform environment. Definition of inactivity.
Our Power Platform Admin team recently discussed the possibility of the automatic cleanup of inactive environments. For the Sandbox and Production environments, we tried to come up with a definition of what we believe is an “inactive environment”. The definition we could think of would combine two main components: a user activity in the environment, at minimum, login, and/or automation… Continue Reading Olena...
“Do DLP policies apply to Developer environments?”
< blockquote class=”wp-block-quote”> The simplest way to get access to a Power Platform environment is to sign up for the Power Apps Developer plan. You can explore Power Platform at full potential for learning at no cost. To fully use it as a developer, you’ll need an Azure account and a work account. This article will guide you through the process for creating a Power Platform environment and a test...
Set up ALM accelerator for Microsoft Power Platform. Power Platform Admin requirements considerations.
The issue My client’s ops team got a request from developers to support the ALM accelerator setup and configuration.They follow the steps from the article below:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/coe/setup-almacceleratorpowerplatform-preview#give-power-app-management-permission-to-your-app App registration is a part of the setup. The Power App Management… Continue Reading Olena Grischenko (she/her)’s...
5 reasons to love Power Pages – Sydney Microsoft BizApps Women November 2022 – YouTube
Answering Why Power Pages? Why new and Why care? questions, talking about a new licensing model with a hint of demo 😉 source
Generating simple and complex documents with just Power Platform, no add-ons.
In the consulting world, we get the document generation requirements for most medium to large-size projects. Traditionally, for Dynamics 365 projects we used document generation add-ons, like Document Core Pack or Xpertdoc to generate documents. However, it’s unnecessary in the world of Power Platform where all requirements could be addressed with just Power Platform.
Power Automate w Word Online: generate document updates
Scenario: My client generate a summary document for the application lodged online. The generated summary could be manually edited by an officer. At the final stage of the application processing, it’s required to include additional information to the generated summary document regarding the outcome of the application. This information must be dynamically generated. This is a process… Continue Reading Olena Grischenko...
BizApps Women August event Meeting Recording – Re-start Your Career w Power Platform – YouTube
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5 reasons why (you believe) you can’t be Microsoft MVP and why you should rethink it
Today is “that day of the year”, the MVP renewal day. You could see lots of posts on Twitter and LinkedIn about the event. MVPs are posting about being renewed for another year. It means more community work, opportunities, more tech knowledge shared, and more questions answered. It means more fun! I’ve been a part of the Microsoft MVP Award program for some time. People reach out to ask me… Continue Reading...
Top 5 features of Power Pages from Power Apps Portal UI/UX pro
I am very excited to share my initial thoughts about Power Pages and a new portal designer. It was a big announcement at MS Build today, if you missed it you can read the article here and then set up a trial to start playing with Power Pages. I’ve been working as a Dynamics 365 portal and Power Apps portal for many years. Recently, I made UI/UX for Power Apps portals one of my business… Continue Reading Olena Grischenko...
Where’s my old app designer?!
Changes to UI are always fun. From the user experience perspective, they are challenging and somehow scary. I love a new app designer! It’s easy to use, it’s smart, and very user-friendly. However, today I need a new designer to make sure I’ve got all forms required added to my app. In the old designer you can check it. And in a new one – I’m not sure it’s even possible. In my old… Continue...
Power Apps Portal: “Table permission changes for forms and lists on new portals” So what?
In case you missed it… We’ve got a portal page with the form which is available for anonymous users. It’s a valid scenario. And the way we set it up previously was like this: Advanced form No authentication is required. Advanced form – no authentication is required. Advanced Form Step – Enable Table Permission option is not set. “Enable Table Permission” option wasn’t… Continue...
Dataflows for PowerApps: loading data from CSV file without copying it to OneDrive in advance. ???
I would like to share my recent experience with loading a CSV file via Dataflow to Dataverse with you. Today, I downloaded the list of leads from the conference we sponsored last week. There is no better way to load it to my sales app on Dataverse – it’s a Dataflow way! At least for me . I needed to transform columns to combine all extra information available into a big Description column…. Continue Reading Olena...
Child Flow: the ‘runAfter’ condition is not satisfied.
When you tired, it’s 9PM on Monday … It’s Monday. I’m too tired to slap you. Could you please bash your face against my palm? Respond to PowerApp or flow action Respond to PowerApp or flow action doesn’t get triggered. I wonder why… Respond to PowerApp or flow action doesn’t get triggered ActionConditionFailed I’ve got two actions leading to Respond to a PowerApp or flow is…...
Power App Portal Web API – fighting lookups
We will start with the 100% helpful Microsoft docs articles: Portals Web API – Power Apps The portals Web API enables building a richer user experience inside Power Apps portals pages. You can use the Web API to perform create, update, and delete operations across all Microsoft Dataverse tables from your portal pages. Portals operations using the Web API – Power Apps You can perform available Web API operations in portals....
Dataflows for Power Apps: run import from the app
As you know I am a very big fan of Dataflows. The biggest ask from me was always the ability to trigger the Dataflow refresh on demand from a Power App. Initially, Dataflows you could only run from the maker portal. You need all sort of “powerful” security roles and permissions to do so. Dataflows on a maker portal As a user I want an ability to trigger a bulk import with Dataflows… Continue Reading Olena Grischenko...
Save Dataverse Notes to Azure Blob Storage and Display on PowerApps Portals
Last month I posted the article describing our exercise with the Azure Blob for the portal notes. The Part 1 is here: https://msolenacrm.blog/2021/07/20/azure-storage-integration-for-power-apps-portals/ This is the second part I advertised created by Mira and all implementation credits go to her as well : “I have been Exploring with Olena (https://msolenacrm.blog/) how to enable the… Continue Reading Olena Grischenko...
Simple Azure Invoice OCR Tutorial
We are exploring OCR capabilities for invoice processing. This is the article which may help you to understand how it work if you want to train a custom model to use it then with Power Automate. Do you want your own OCR which costs less than a coffee? All credits go to Nick Grischenko. Continue Reading Olena Grischenko (she/her)’s Article on their blog Simple Azure Invoice OCR Tutorial We are exploring OCR capabilities for...
Azure Storage integration for Power Apps portals
To answer the question Why? I say we run into some limitations with SharePoint integration. And now we are trying to explore other options. Let’s get started! Enable Azure Storage This is a great blog post here: Want to leverage Azure storage for your documents in PowerApps/ Dynamics 365 portals instead of Notes? Check this out – Debajit’s Power Apps & Dynamics 365 Blog It’s got… Continue Reading Olena...
Power Automate with Dataverse: Saving API calls to Dataverse. Expand or Link-Entity?
Within Power Automate I am trying to make SINGLE(paginated) call to Dataverse to get the list of Work Orders with the particular status linked to Account but not directly but via extra layer. Also, I can retrieve extra lookup tables which are required by logic. All in a single call because making extra API calls is expensive and evil! The FetchXML query looks like one below: Query WO… Continue Reading Olena Grischenko...
Power Automate with Dataverse: “Apply to each” current item/previous item
Recently I was working on the solution and in the middle of the development discovered that I desperately need to refer to the previous item in the loop. Let’s say, I iterate through the list of items I received via List Rows (Dataverse). I check a condition in the next iteration and based on the condition I need to do something with the item from the previous step. I know it sounds crazy…. Continue Reading Olena...
How do I pass executionContext as a parameter into my Promise to fit in Promise.all()?
To be honest, this post should be a bit longer with more details but I like it this way. This is a sample below. It looks cool. And I building one of my own. But I need it to work with my onSave form validation. const promise1 = Promise.resolve(3); const promise2 = 42; const promise3 = new Promise((resolve, reject) => { setTimeout(resolve, 100, ‘foo’); }); Promise.all([promise1,… Continue Reading Olena...
Where is my Tenant ID? (not Azure portal)
In the casual conversation with Microsoft I was asked about my customer Tenant ID. As a person who use to superpower and admin privileges I went straight to Azure portal: Microsoft Azure No Description Unfortunately, I don’t have the same level of power in my customer organisation as I have in my own. I simple didn’t have access to… Continue Reading Olena Grischenko (she/her)’s Article on their blog Where is my...
COATBRIDGE Olena and Andrew Grischenko Go Beyond Limits with Power Platform – YouTube
Applying new technology into practical context comes with challenges of facing varying limitations – licensing, performance, security to name a few. In this talk, we will give you several examples of these problems and how to solve it using hybrid code/no-code solutions on Power Platform and Azure. You’ll know how to speed up your flow processing in certain use cases to the orders of magnitude; how to work with...
Dynamics 365 Sales Pro Trial Setup
Go to: https://trials.dynamics.com/ Let’s create your Sales Pro trial in these easy steps (below). Go to trial page to set up trial Scroll down to the highlighted option. Choose for dev purpose option No, continue signing up Create a new account instead Tell us About yourself section. Add details. Enter your phone. Use Verification code. Create your business… Continue Reading Olena Grischenko’s Article on their blog...
Getting data from a function in an on-prem SQL server via Gateway in Power Automate
Dataflow magic in Power Automate. SQL with Power Query in Power Automate. Did you know you can do this? CloudMinded Blog “We are screwed!” me at the moment of technology induced panic That was the feeling when I saw the below error messages. The client’s setup is an on-prem SQL server exposed to the cloud via an on-prem Gateway. It works perfectly fine for exiting Dataflow… Continue Reading Olena Grischenko’s Article on...
Dataflows for Power Apps: calling a table-valued SQL function with Power Query
It’s very easy to query SQL table-valued function to retrieve the result with Dataflows. This is how we do this. Let’s connect to a database. It will work via gateway as well. Select your function. Pass the parameter if required. Now you can use this table to merge with other tables or map and load to Dataverse. Super easy! Continue Reading Olena Grischenko’s Article on their blog...
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❤ Dataflows for Power Apps ❤: “The column ‘[Column_name]’ of the table wasn’t found.” error while loading multiple tables
There is an option to load data to multiple table in one go in Dataflows. These tables can be related. Dataflow engine calculates the dependencies and determines the correct order for loading. It’s a very cool functionality, however, you have to be aware of some potential issues as well as available workarounds. Problem: I am trying to load bills and meter data in to Dataverse tables. The… Continue Reading Olena...
Azure Functions in Power Platform multiple environments
Working with real customer’s deployment requires managing multiple environments – at least Test and Production or additionally a Dev environment. One of the common patterns we use in the solutions is to use Azure Functions as an effective, serverless extension of the point-and-click Power Automate flows. This pattern utilises a Custom Connector created to embed the function call and… Continue...
Dataflows for Power Apps: transform fixed-width text files
What is a fixed width text file? Data in a fixed–width text file is arranged in rows and columns, with one entry per row. Each column has a fixed width, specified in characters, which determines the maximum amount of data it can contain. No delimiters are used to separate the fields in the file. Could we load data from a fixed-width file with dataflow? Absolutely! This file below is… Continue Reading Olena...
Dataflows for Power Apps: cyclic reference error with multiple data sources when you start with empty query
As simple as this: if you don’t believe in solutions with Dataflow and just copy queries across most likely you are going to get the following error: I had multiple data sources: Dataverse and CSV file. Because I didn’t go through the normal order for steps but just started with an empty query and just copied queries across I started getting this error immediately after adding a… Continue Reading Olena...
Dataflow for Power Apps: “section Section1;…” error on create
This error for me occured when I was copying scripts and using blank queries. This is not my image, not my database, so don’t try to access it, please I found it in Internet to illustrate the point. section Section1; error This message is a little bit a lot not helping. If you deploy something to PROD at night it is also very stressful. So what do we do? We start here:
❤Dataflow❤ with Power Apps: bulk update for CDS records
This article is using a test data because using customer data is wrong. The rest is very practical stuff. If you don’t use Dataflow for Power Apps still I think you should. I am trying to solve a typical problem. We’ve got a Choice column Business Type for Account (for example). We need to remove one of the choice items “Re-seller” from the Choice but first we need update all related… Continue Reading...
Dataflow for Power Apps: query CDS (improved)
Recently I posted about the same issue. Yesterday I discovered a new way. It looks like OData connector is more friendly than the Web API one. Use FetchXmlBuilder to help you to build the query. Start creating you Dataflow: For the data source on the tab Other pick up the OData connector. For the Connection String URL will be like:
The Journey of Low Code to Pro Code Developer and the other way round – YouTube
Salman is working as a functional consultant but his heart is more towards the Dev side. He always tries to present design documents and concepts that are more developer-friendly which are easier to understand and build. Linn started his career as a developer and he is passionate about coding. But lately, he has been embracing low-code development platforms so that he can spend more time on the things that matter. Join us to listen to...
Import solution to CDS. Missing Connection references error…
In the morning i tried to bring back some stuff from UAT. When I tried to import my solution back to DEV I was getting errors. My solution contained Flows. I went the classic interface to import the solution. I’ve got some connection references missing. I went back to the source environment to add the missing components. Make sure you added all you need. Because I… Continue Reading Olena Grischenko’s Article on their...
❤ Dataflow for Power Apps: query CDS via Web API❤
In my Dataflow you would like to query CDS data. This is how I you it. Click on New dataflow and enter the name. On the next screen on the tab Other select Web API. Go to your model-driven app Advanced Settings. Select Customizations -> Developer Resources. Copy Instance Web API Service Root URL. Paste the URL to Web API URL Connection settings. Select… Continue Reading Olena Grischenko’s Article on their blog ❤...
Field Service Installation: are we there yet?
When you clicked on the magic button which you found here how do you monitor the progress? In the Power Platform admin center go to Environments. In the list of environments click on the environment you are upgrading Field Service on: https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments From Resources click on Dynamics 365 apps … Enjoy the progress! Continue Reading Olena Grischenko’s Article on their blog Field Service...
Field Service upgrade: where is my button?! ?
With the new Power Apps admin portal if you want to upgrade the Field Service solution you have to do the following: Go to Power Platform Admin center: Power Platform admin center No Description 2. From the left navigation Resources -> Dynamics 365 apps: 3. Select Dynamics 365 Field Service. 4.Click on … then click on Install. It looks scary so I didn’t want to click until… Continue Reading Olena...
Power Apps Portal: deactivating records from a portal via Web API
All the amazing docs, which help you to start are available here: Perform portals Web API operations – Power Apps This article is pre-release documentation and is subject to change.] You can perform the available Web API operations in portals. Web API operations consist of HTTP requests and responses. This article shows sample operations, methods, URI, and the sample JSON you can use in the HTTP request. Use the Web API for...
Power Apps portal Web API: (ERROR)An undeclared property … which only has property annotations in the payload but no property value was found in the payload…
Looking at Web API for portals this weekend. For the scenarios we currently workaround, with the API it’s all easy. There is a very documentation available which will help you to start: Perform portals Web API operations – Power Apps This article is pre-release documentation and is subject to change.] You can perform the available Web API operations in portals. Web API operations consist of HTTP requests and responses....
Brisbane Power Apps & Power Automate UG – Generating a starship inspection list with Power Platform – YouTube
Generating a starship inspection list with Power Platform Thursday, Sep 10, 2020, 5:15 PM Online event , 34 PowerAddicts Went IMPORTANT – THIS IS AN ONLINE ONLY EVENT Please do not show up at Hudson’s office for this event. There will be no access. We will stream the presentation using Microsoft Teams Meeting. For the best experience, you will want to install MS Teams desktop (Windows and Mac) app or a mobile (Android and iOS)...
Dynamics 365 CE: Investigating the conflicting business rules issue
Recently, we run into the weird issue which we initially assessed as the upgrade to V9 related. The issue was that some form fields were aren’t marked as required based on the Account type based on the business logic. We use the unhealthy mix of scripts and business rules for the form logic. Also, we inherited most of the code from previous vendors. Luckily for me, I was reviewing and… Continue Reading Olena...
Power Apps portals: my Edit button doesn’t show on a grid (Déjà vu)
I’ve been working with portal for so many years that every time something like this is happening I feel like dying of emberrasement. For my demo entity list, I couldn’t get the Edit button to appear and I knew, I knew it was about Entity permissions. You need to make sure you set up your permissions correctly and add these permissions to your user role. And clear cache. This is the… Continue Reading Olena...
Choosing who to get embed with PCF control or Canvas app – YouTube
Join Tae and Lachlan as they discuss the pros and cons, strengths and weaknesses of the current Power Apps UI extensions: PCF controls and embedded Canvas apps. In this session, we will explore which UI extensions to use when and why. Do PCF controls compete for the same space as Canvas Apps and vice versa? What do they do well? What do they do badly? We will cover these points and much more in this exciting presentation!...
PowerLabs-NoTimeToSPy – YouTube
Learn how to build a Power Apps game. Use the script and images from GitHub project: alena-grischenko/spy_powerapps_game Contribute to alena-grischenko/spy_powerapps_game development by creating an account on GitHub....