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Disable Recent Records from Dynamics 365 Lookup Control | Model-Driven Apps [Quick Tip]
Here’s a Quick Tip on how to disable Recent Records in Lookup control in Model-Driven Apps! Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Disable Recent Records from Dynamics 365 Lookup Control | Model-Driven Apps [Quick Tip] Here’s a Quick Tip on how to disable Recent Records in Lookup control in Model-Driven Apps! Blog Syndicated with priyeshwagh777’s...
Advanced Lookup in Model-Driven Apps | Power Platform
Here’s a post on how you can enable the Advanced Lookup experience in Dynamics 365! Check this post. Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Advanced Lookup in Model-Driven Apps | Power Platform Here’s a super useful feature now available in Dynamics 365 for Model-driven Apps called as Advanced Lookups. Blog Syndicated with priyeshwagh777’s...
Admin Center URLs under M365 – Power Platform, Teams, SharePoint, Power BI
Here is a quick summary to access all URLs under Microsoft 365 Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Admin Center URLs under M365 – Power Platform, Teams, SharePoint, Power BI Here’s a quick summary of the Admin Center URLs of each of these Dynamics 365 / Power Platform Admin Centers – Here’s the link to all Admin Center under your O365 tenant based on your subscription and your Role in...
New App Designer for Model-Driven Apps | Power Platform
Here’s a quick look at how Model Driven Apps new Designer Looks and Feels like!! Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog New App Designer for Model-Driven Apps | Power Platform The new Model Driven App Designer experience has been enabled and has been doing the rounds for a few days now. Here’s my take on the same to demystify and bring forward a quick example of a Model-Driven App capabilities....
Language format for Whole Number field in Dynamics 365 CE
See how we can use the Language format of the Whole Number field. Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Language format for Whole Number field in Dynamics 365 CE If you create a Whole Number field in Dynamics 365 CE environment, you’ll notice a Format which is available for you to choose i.e. Language among other formats like None, Duration, Time Zone. Let’s see what the field is and what it stores....
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Transition effect on Gallery Items when hovered over in a Canvas Power App | [Quick Tip]
Quick Tip for new Canvas App developers. Apply transition effects on the Canvas App Gallery. Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Transition effect on Gallery Items when hovered over in a Canvas Power App | [Quick Tip] While using a Canvas App on Desktop, or when it’s embedded in Dynamics 365 CE, it’s a nice design decision to highlight the Gallery items on which your mouse is pointing on as you...
Search Rows (preview) Action in Dataverse connector in a Flow | Power Automate
Here’s the summary of how we can use the Search Rows Action from the Dataverse connector in Power Automate. Check it out! Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Search Rows (preview) Action in Dataverse connector in a Flow | Power Automate As Dataverse connector keeps getting updated from time to time, here’s a new Search rows (preview) Action which you must be seeing in the Dataverse connector in...
Custom Help Pages and Guided Tasks for Unified Interface in Dynamics 365
Here’s how you can create Custom Help Pages in Dynamics 365 CE | YouTube video also included inside. Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Custom Help Pages and Guided Tasks for Unified Interface in Dynamics 365 Formerly, Learning Path – A complete new overhaul for guided help is Custom Help Panes in Dynamics 365 Access your System Settings for enabling this feature in your organization –...
Suppress Workflow Header Information while sending back HTTP Response in a Flow | Power Automate
Here’s a quick tip on how you can suppress the Header information to be sent to the calling HTTP application. Check this out with a short video! Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Suppress Workflow Header Information while sending back HTTP Response in a Flow | Power Automate Let’s see how we can suppress critical information about the Flow to the caller HTTP Application while sending back a...
Navigate Screen automatically based on Timer in Canvas Power App | Power Platform
Here’s an example of how you can do some operations in Canvas Power Apps based on a Timer. Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Navigate Screen automatically based on Timer in Canvas Power App | Power Platform So let’s say you want to auto-navigate from a Screen to some other Screen in a Canvas Power App. [Or any other operation for that matter!] The purpose of this post is to demonstrate how you...
Invalid XML issue in Dataverse connector for List Rows action | Fetch XML Query | Power Automate
Here’s how you can overcome one of the Invalid XML issues in List Rows action in Dataverse Connector in Cloud Flows! Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Invalid XML issue in Dataverse connector for List Rows action | Fetch XML Query | Power Automate While using Dataverse connector [formerly known as Common Data Service (Current Environment) connector] for different operations, List Rows is one of the...
Search on multiple columns from a Dataverse table in a Canvas Power App Gallery control | Power Platform
Here’s how you can search on multiple columns in a Canvas Power Apps using Search function. Quick Tip! Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Search on multiple columns from a Dataverse table in a Canvas Power App Gallery control | Power Platform One of the most common scenarios is to be able to perform a Search on the Dataverse table like Accounts, Contacts etc. across multiple columns. Just like you...
Call a Flow from Canvas Power App and get back response | Power Platform
Summarizing how you can call a Flow from a Canvas App and read back the response sent by the Flow. Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Call a Flow from Canvas Power App and get back response | Power Platform One of the most commonly searched topic is being able to Run a Flow from a Canvas App. And this has been demonstrated by many users over a period of time. This is my attempt to summarize the same....
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Make Managed fields Required in Dynamics 365 – Managed Properties Error [Workaround] | D365 CE Quick Tip
Here’s how you can alternatively make a field required if it is a Managed Component and you can’t do so on a database level. Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Make Managed fields Required in Dynamics 365 – Managed Properties Error [Workaround] | D365 CE Quick Tip On some instances, there are Managed fields in Dynamics 365 CRM (or CE if you want to call it) where we can’t change the...
Enable Custom Code Components (PCF Controls) to be imported in a Canvas Power App | Quick Tip
Quick Tip on how you can enable Import of Code Components in a Canvas Power App! Check this post. Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Enable Custom Code Components (PCF Controls) to be imported in a Canvas Power App | Quick Tip In case you want to enable PCF Controls to be allowed to be embedded in a Canvas Power App, here’s what you do. By default, if you see as below i.e. you are not able to Import...
Retrieve Hashtags from Text in a Canvas Power App | Power Platform
Here’s how you can retrieve Hashtags from a String and collect it! Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Retrieve Hashtags from Text in a Canvas Power App | Power Platform Let’s say you want to make a collection of Hashtags used in a certain Text Input control. Here’s how you do it using the HashTags() function in Power Apps. Let me demonstrate it quickly below! Now, let’s consider the...
Sign up for a Dynamics 365 Project Operations (Lite Deployment) environment and provision a new instance | Power Platform
Here’s how you can sign up for and provision a Project Operations Lite environment on a new instance. Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Sign up for a Dynamics 365 Project Operations (Lite Deployment) environment and provision a new instance | Power Platform Unlike other Dynamics 365 Trial instances sign up process which is from https://trials.dynamics.com/, Project Operations are requested and...
FetchXML Aggregation in a Flow using CDS (Current Environment) connector | Power Automate
Here’s how you can use Aggregate Functions in FetchXML in a Power Automate Flow! Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog FetchXML Aggregation in a Flow using CDS (Current Environment) connector | Power Automate Getting the count of records or averaging is one of the most commonly used Aggregate Functions in programming. FetchXML queries too facilitate aggregation. Blog Syndicated with priyeshwagh777’s...
Parsing Outputs of a List Rows action using Parse JSON in a Flow | Common Data Service (CE) connector
Here’s a post summarizing the different Outputs we can get from the List Rows action in the Common Data Service (Current Environment) Connector. Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Parsing Outputs of a List Rows action using Parse JSON in a Flow | Common Data Service (CE) connector For newbies using Common Data Service (Current Environment) Connector, it might be a little puzzling to find all the...
Invalid type. Expected Integer but got Number error in Parse JSON – Error at runtime after generating Schema | Power Automate
At times, even if you generate Schema in Parse JSON using sample data, there are instance where it could fall through, let’s look at one such exception! Check this post. Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog Invalid type. Expected Integer but got Number error in Parse JSON – Error at runtime after generating Schema | Power Automate If you are using JSON Parse function in Power Automate and are...
Asynchronous HTTP Response from a Flow | Power Automate
Make a Flow send HTTP Response Asynchronously. Check this post! Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article on their blog https://d365demystified.com/2021/03/22/asynchronous-http-response-from-a-flow-power-automate/ Blog Syndicated with priyeshwagh777’s Permission
Validate JSON Schema for HTTP Request trigger in a Flow and send Response | Power Automate
In a Cloud Flow, if you are using an HTTP Request Trigger that accepts HTTP Requests – you have the option to validate the Incoming data based on the Schema of the JSON. Scenario Let’s assume this is the data which will be passed to the HTTP Request Flow – HTTP Request & Schema Let’s look at the HTTP Request Trigger itself in a Cloud Flow – First, let’s initiate the HTTP… Continue Reading...
Tag a User in a Microsoft Teams post made using Power Automate
As Power Automate becomes more of a norm to make Microsoft Teams in a channel, tagging a user is one of the most frequent and obvious asks for Power Automate / Flow developer. Here’s how you can take a User from Office 365 to a Teams channel. Let’s look at these straight-forward steps! It’s easy. Getting a Mention Token First, let’s create a Mention token. Let’s see how – In… Continue Reading...
Rich Text Control for Canvas and Model-Driven App | Quick Tip
In one of my previous posts, I had highlighted, you can enable a Rich-Text Control for a Multiple-Line of Text type of field. Here it is again – Use Rich-Text Control for Multiple Lines of Text in Dynamics 365 CE | Quick Tip In the above post, I had highlighted that we can change the control of a Model-Driven control of Text to Rich-Text and make it appear as below Now, reading the same… Continue Reading...
Converting JSON to XML and XML to JSON in a Flow | Power Automate
In this very simple post, let’s look at how you can convert JSON to XML and XML back to JSON while working in Power Automate. First, let’s look at converting JSON to XML and then, XML to JSON from the same result of the first conversion. JSON to XML Let’s look at an example where we have a sample JSON which we will convert to XML in Power Automate using xml() function and we’ll revert… Continue Reading...
Filter records in a View owned by a Team you are a member of | Dynamics 365 CRM
In Dynamics 365, “My” views show records owned by the System Users themselves. Let’s look at how you can have views that let’s you filter records based on the Owner Team which you are a part of. Scenario Let’s assume the below scenario in terms of Contacts entity. All users have Contacts owned by them. Out-of-the-box views show filter “My” views only by Owner field. Default My Active…...
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Duration field in Dynamics 365 converts Hours value to Days in Dynamics 365 | [Flow Workaround to convert in Hours and Mins]
This must be one of the most common scenarios Dynamics 365 Users must’ve come across. The Whole Number’s Duration field shows Duration in Days once it crosses 24 hours, it shows the Duration in Days. Like below –And once you leave the control, it’ll be converted to it’s equivalent Days conversion But if you click on it, you can in fact see the Hours However, It’s not ideal to click on…...
Office 365 Outlook connector in Cloud Flows showing Invalid Connection error | Power Automate
Office 365 Outlook connector is one of the most required connectors for Cloud Flows since it involves Exchange Online / Outlook services. At times, all the Connection References work fine elsewhere but in causes issues with Office 365 Outlook and shows error which says ‘Connection not found. Please create a new connection and change your application to use the new connection‘ even when you… Continue Reading...
Show custom ribbon button based on Security Role of the logged in User in Dynamics 365 | Ribbon Workbench in XrmToolbox
In ribbon button customization, it is a common scenario to show the button only to a certain set of users who have a certain security role. Security Role Scenario Let’s assume Subscription Manager is a security role in your Dynamics 365.And the Ribbon button will only be visible to the Users who have been assigned this Security Role.If they have this Role, they’ll be able to see the… Continue Reading...
Connecting XrmToolBox to an MFA enabled Dynamics 365 environment | Azure AD
It has always been recommended to enable MFA on environments we work on. For developers, it is especially critical that MFA is enabled that developers are also someone who need to connect the https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/ more than ever! Here’s one of the common challenges in being able to connect to an MFA enabled Dynamics 365 instance using XrmToolBox. Register the Dynamics 365… Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s...
Form Access Checker in new Power Apps Form Designer | Model-Driven Apps in Dynamics 365
Most of us have been used to using the classic form designer as of now. And the Power Apps UI which is in https://make.powerapps.com/ has some important new features. We create forms and we then have to explicitly make sure we have assigned them correct Security Roles and added them to the Apps correctly. So the new Power Apps Form Designer has a very useful feature called as Form Access… Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s...
Wave 1 2021 Early Access is now available | Opt-in
As per MS Docs Key Dates i.e. Feb 1st for 2021 Wave 1 Early Access – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2021wave1/#key-dates-for-the-2021-release-wave-1?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5003911 Note: Since these are Early Access Features, not all features would necessarily make it to the final Wave 1 2021 release. Kindly try these features in a Sandbox environment only and test the… Continue Reading...
Visualize Adaptive Card for Teams user action within a Cloud Flow | Experimental Feature
Microsoft Teams’ connector for Cloud Flows (Power Automate), and if you are looking to use Adaptive Cards for Microsoft Teams from the connector. There are chances that you’ll see some options to post an Adaptive Cards to Teams. I’m exclusively covering a Teams’ connector’s Action called as Post an Adaptive Card to a Teams user and wait for a response. But, you also have an improved… Continue...
Multi-select Items from Gallery and adding/removing them from Collections | Power Platform
Now, let’s say you want to be able to select a few Gallery Items and the same should be populated to a Gallery and even from Collection as well. You can use this scenario if you want to create a Collection of some GUIDs/Account Names and then take separate action on it or handle it in some other context. Add Check box in a Gallery Let’s take a simple example- I added a Check Box in… Continue Reading...
FormatDateTime function in a Flow | Power Automate
DateTime fields from Dataverse / Common Data Service (Current Environment) are retrieved in full Date and Time format. And in common applications, you are required to only retrieve the Date and not the Time. Or even Format the Date Time in a certain way. Let’s look at how to format DateTime in a Flow which appears as below Let’s look at a simple example by trying to format a Created On… Continue Reading...
Use Rich-Text Control for Multiple Lines of Text in Dynamics 365 CE | Quick Tip
With the addition of the Rich Text Control, your Multiple Lines of Text field can make a lot more sense than before. Standard Control Your usual control for Multiple Lines of Text looks like this Rich Text Control Now, you can turn this into a Rich Text EditorHere’s how you do it – Go to the Multiple Lines of Text field, in this case, Description field.select the inner control… Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s...
Ribbon button visibility based on a field value in Dynamics 365 | Ribbon Workbench
Most times, requirement is as simple as being able to show or hide a ribbon button based on a value of the field on the record. Scenario Let’s consider this scenario, a button on Lead entity called as “Evaluate” exists. It should be only visible if the Lead Source (OptionSet) is set to Partner.And the button should be hidden if the condition is not satisfied. Enable Rule based on… Continue Reading...
Formatting Approvals’ Details in Cloud Flows | Power Automate
Now, not always Approvals details/description should appear as plain text. In order to enrich the Details of an Approval Adaptive Cards (which you can send as part of standard Approvals provided by Cloud Flows / Power Automate)In this post, I’ll be looking at an example to format Details for a “Start and wait for an approval” Action step in Power Automate / Cloud FlowYou can enrich the Details… Continue Reading...
Trigger Conditions not working in a Cloud Flow? Here’s Why | Power Automate Quick Tip
At times, you’re pretty sure that the trigger condition you’ve put in a Cloud Flow is correct but it still doesn’t trigger. Scenario Here’s a scenario which I came across where the Trigger Conditions weren’t triggering. The trigger was Common Data Service (Current Environment) connector and the Trigger Conditions were supposed to check for a specific value to fire. However, even upon… Continue...
Parallel Branching in Cloud Flows – Isolate Response dependent Step Actions in parallel branches | Quick Tip
As 2020 comes to a close, here’s a Power Automate / Cloud Flows quick tip that might benefit newbies to Power Automate. Scenario Some Flows need you to include Approvals or Adaptive Cards that halt the execution of the Flow until the Response from the target is sent back to the Flow. If there are some steps to be taken after the Response is received. Parallel Branching You can… Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s...
Read OptionSet Labels from CDS/Dataverse Triggers or Action Steps in a Flow | Power Automate
Retrieving OptionSet Labels from CDS data in a Cloud Flow / Power Automate / Flow is an extra step than just picking from the Dynamic Values. Check this post!! Scenario While working with data that is either a result of a Dataverse Trigger (on Create/Update) or Action like (Get record, list record), the OptionSet fields from CDS/Dataverse return the Values of the OptionSet instead of the… Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s...
InvalidWorkflowTriggerName or InvalidWorkflowRunActionName error in saving Cloud Flows | Power Automate Quick Tip
If you are lately started creating Flows, you’ll come across some errors which are not precisely directing to what might be the issue but throw an error that says as below – For Triggers (InvalidWorkflowTriggerName) – Run Action (InvalidWorkflowRunActionName) – Reasoning The reason you see these errors are because of Invalid Characters which are in your Flow Trigger Step Names or on… Continue Reading...
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Setting Correct Default Mode for Forms in a Canvas App | [Quick Tip]
If you are new to creating a Canvas App and you’ve just added a Form and when you try to run and test the same in the browser itself, you don’t see it. So let’s say you’ve put a form like this And all you see is this – So this happens based on the Default Mode and whether the context is passed to the form depending on the type or not. Default Mode There are 3 Default Modes for… Continue Reading...
Rating Control to represent data from Dataverse in a Canvas Power App | Power Platform
Although, you can use Text based controls to represent data as is in a Canvas Power App. So why not go an extra mile to make it look more intuitive. Scenario Let’s say there are Accounts and you have some kind of Compliance Ratings on them to represent compliant they are based on certain criteria. Could be a Numeric value or Decimal value. But Rating Control represents only in Numeric… Continue Reading...
Entity Icon for entities on Unified Interface | Quick Tip
Now, Unified Interface being the only interface we have to work on in Dynamics 365 CRM, Here’s a quick tip on how and where you can set the Entity Icon for the Unified Interface. Default Icons One each entity, Custom or otherwise, here’s where you can set the Icon. Let’s say Commissions is a custom entity which has a default Icon.This is how it appears in the Unified Interface for any… Continue Reading...
Create a Team, add Members in Microsoft Teams upon Project and Team Members creation in PSA / Project Operations | Power Automate
Let’s take a simple use case where you need to have a Microsoft Team created in Teams and have the Project Members added to the Microsoft Teams’ Project Team. You can simply do this using 2 simple Flows in Power Automate Scenario & Setup If you are a PSA Customer, you would want to create a Team in Microsoft Teams based on what Project it is and then add Team Members of the Project as… Continue Reading...
Setting Lookup in a Flow CDS Connector: Classic vs. Current Environment connector | Power Automate Quick Tip
Both the CDS and CDS Current Environment connector are similar yet different in the way how they accept Lookup values set in their Update a record steps. Here’s a quick tip!! Scenario Taking a simple example of setting Primary Contact Lookup on Account. We’ll do the same thing using both the connectors mentioned below. Common Data Service connector Common Data Service… Continue Reading priyeshwagh777’s Article...
Using outputs() function and JSON Parse to read data from missing dynamic value in a Flow | Power Automate
I faced this issue lately and not sure if it’s a bug or something I might be missing. But, I couldn’t find anything in Dynamic Content in a Flow and I was not able to pick fields to use further in a Flow. Not sure how many of you faced this since most fields you need are available in a Flow’s Dynamic Content part. Scenario – Adaptive Cards for Teams issue I had this one scenario in… Continue Reading...
Save Adaptive Cards work using VS Code Extension – Adaptive Cards Studio | Quick Tip
If you’ve started working on Adaptive Cards recently and always struggle with losing Adaptive Card payload from https://adaptivecards.io/designer/, you should use the Adaptive Cards Studio Extension. So there’s a Visual Studio Code Extension for the same which will help you preserve and preview the Adaptive Card you are working on. Problem Statement While working with Adaptive Cards,… Continue Reading...
Adaptive Cards for Outlook Actionable Messages using Power Automate | Power Platform
Let’s take a look at how you can design Adaptive Cards for Outlook and get response from Outlook users to process using Power Automate. Scenario Let’s say I wanted to send an Adaptive Card to an Outlook user on their Email and ask some comment, example – A descriptive feedback and read their response back and send them a confirmation Adaptive Card. In this post, I’ll simply read the… Continue Reading...