Getting Started with Power Platform Approvals
Having worked primarily with D365 modules, it is quite common to set up approval systems for specific business cases. In this article, we will focus on the Power Platform’s standard ability to set up an approval system. Definition & Business Scenarios Before getting into the technical solutions, I thought it was essential to look at the approval process itself.Let’s start with two quite… Continue Reading Allan De...
Power Platform Wave Reflections with ChatGPT
The release plans for 2023 Release Wave 1 were made available last week. I wrote about highlights from my perspective in my previous post. As I was writing, I came to think about product news from a broader perspective. How can you stay updated? Is it enough to read the release plans? Where else can you find out what’s new and coming? I asked the popular ChatGPT how to stay updated, read on… Continue Reading...
Power Automate – Restore deleted flows
Today , I want to explain how you can recover deleted Power Automate flows. PS: If you need recover Power Apps, you can read my article here. Some note to remember: You can’t recover your flow if it was deleted more than 20 days ago You can recover your flow if it was not part of solution (but if did, you can try to open a ticket support) Default state of recovered flow is… Continue Reading Angelo’s Article on their...
How to default a SharePoint person column
Learn how to work with Person column in a SharePoint list and how to default it to a certain user in a canvas app! The post How to default a SharePoint person column appeared first on Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict. Continue Reading Hardit Bhatia’s Article on their blog How to default a SharePoint person column | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict I promise I will go back to my series on responsiveness. But if I don’t write...
Power Platform Release wave 1 2023
Power Platform Release wave 1 2023It’s here, the release of wave 1 2023 is announced. Every year Microsoft hits us twice with the release wave, and yeah it’s always a long list of features, so I’m very glad it’s only twice and not three times a year In my
Dynamics CE Release wave 1 2023
Dynamics 365 CE Release wave 1 2023It’s here, the release of wave 1 2023 is announced. Every year Microsoft hits us twice with the release wave, and yeah it’s always a long list of features, so I’m very glad it’s only twice and not three times a year The… Continue Reading wilmeralcivar88@gmail.com’s Article on their blog Dynamics CE Release wave 1 2023 – Wilmer Alcivar It’s here, the...
Know if a user is using Desktop or Mobile
Learn how to figure out if users are using desktop or a mobile device to access an app and in turn have mobile or desktop only features! The post Know if a user is using Desktop or Mobile appeared first on Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict. Continue Reading Hardit Bhatia’s Article on their blog Know if a user is using Desktop or Mobile | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict In spite of being in the middle of my responsive app series, I...
2023 Release Wave 1 Highlights
Today the Release Plans for 2023 Release Wave 1 were made available. This post highlights some of the features presented and we are going to focus on Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate and the cross app capabilities (Finance and Operations Dataverse). Many features might not comes as news to you, they might have been announced at a Microsoft event last year or even been documented in an… Continue Reading...
Responsiveness – the fundamentals!
A comprehensive list of responsiveness concepts (properties, operators, controls etc.) needed to make any app responsive using containers. The post Responsiveness – the fundamentals! appeared first on Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict. Continue Reading Hardit Bhatia’s Article on their blog Responsiveness – the fundamentals! | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict Concepts to learn responsiveness Certain concepts are...
How to create responsive Power Apps!
A comparison of different approaches available to make Power Apps responsive with a focus on the traditional approach! The post How to create responsive Power Apps! appeared first on Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict. Continue Reading Hardit Bhatia’s Article on their blog How to create responsive Power Apps! | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict The meaning of responsiveness, per vocabulary.com, is the ability to respond/react quickly...
Creator Kit – Nav Control
Today , we’re introducing one of the menu & nav controls group of Creator Kit: “Nav Control“. Let’s see What is it and how it works. If you don’t know what Creator Kit is, you can read my article here. Add control to your App Before use it, you should add it to your app. If you didn’t have installed Creator Kit in your environment, you can read this article to do it. Add Control to…...
Create a twin record with its children using a table relationship and field mapping
Create a twin record with its children using a table relationship and field mapping Few months ago I had a very interesting business requirement, in which I had to take the information of several fields from a primary table and the information of several fields… Continue Reading wilmeralcivar88@gmail.com’s Article on their blog...
How to send an Adaptive card to a Microsoft Teams Private channel using Power Automate flow
Within Microsoft Teams, private channels create focused spaces for collaboration where only the owners or members of the private channel can access the channel. The Microsoft Teams connector in Power Automate has an action to Post an Adaptive card in a chat or channel, which posts an adaptive card as a flow bot to a specific Teams channel. The following error will appear if this action is used… Continue Reading Mohamed Ashiq...
Calling a Custom Page using modern commanding and TypeScript
Calling a Custom Page using modern commanding and TypeScriptThis is the continuation of a series on combining Custom Pages and Custom APIs, but also using the Creator Kit and a bit of TypeScript in the process. In the first blogpost we learned how to create a… Continue Reading wilmeralcivar88@gmail.com’s Article on their blog https://wilmeralcivar.com/calling-custom-page-using-modern-commanding-typescript/ Blog Syndicated...
Creator Kit – November Update
Let’s see what news are introduced with november update of creator kit. If you don’t know what Creator Kit is, you can read my article here. New Features Have been introduced 2 new (in preview) components, SubwayNav and SpinButton: SubwayNav Control SpinButton Control Let’s see a basic introduction to use these controls. SubwayNav You can use this control to show a… Continue Reading Angelo’s Article on...
Create a Custom API using bulk request
Create a Custom API using bulk request Continue Reading wilmeralcivar88@gmail.com’s Article on their blog https://wilmeralcivar.com/create-a-custom-api-using-bulk-request/ Blog Syndicated with wilmeralcivar88@gmail.com’s Permission
Creator Kit – Introduction
Today, we’re going to speak about Creator Kit. With this fantastic tool, we have possibility to create Canvas App, with professional look & feel with “Microsoft 365” Style. What is “Cretor Kit” ? According to Microsoft , Creator Kit consist in a series of controls , utility and templates , created to increase developer productivity. All controls are base on Fluent UI Framework , Continue Reading...
Custom Connector: Extending your Power Apps using Azure Function and OpenAPI – Part One
As I am a big fan of Azure services and in particular Azure Functions, I recently focused my attention on the possibility to create a custom connector from an Azure service. Indeed, the field of possibilities becomes unlimited once you are able to add an abstraction layer between two services with a custom connector to provide Power Platform makers what they need to take their Power Apps to… Continue Reading Allan De...
Build a Custom Page using Power Platform Creator Kit
Build a Custom Page using Power Platform Creator KitThis blogpost is the beginning of a series about combining Custom Pages and Custom APIs, but also using the Creator Kit and a bit of TypeScript in the process. I’ll show you how to start and how to build the UI… Continue Reading wilmeralcivar88@gmail.com’s Article on their blog https://wilmeralcivar.com/built-a-custom-page-using-power-platform-creator-kit/ Blog...
Removendo parâmetros de fluxos chamados pelo Power Apps
Imagine a seguinte situação: Você está montando um aplicativo no Power Apps e percebe que precisa chamar um determinado fluxo no Power Automate. Como as ideias ainda não estão tão claras você inicia seu fluxo e começa a pedir uma serie de parâmetros para execução do fluxo. A medida que o fluxo amadurece você percebe que não precisa daquela quantidade toda de parâmetros. Para que… Continue Reading Pedro Neto’s Article on...
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 Platform – Environment
Today, we’re going to speak about Environment. Where people starting to create App or Flow, usually, use Default Environment. But in order to have correct governance or our Power Platform solutions, a good idea (but is not only the one) is create more then one Environment. For Example Dev, Quality and Prod. What is an “Environment” ? According to Microsoft , and Environment is a a space… Continue Reading...
Write custom telemetry to Application Insights from Dataverse plug-in
If you visit my blog from time to time, you may have noticed that one of my last articles was about the possibility to analyze the log data of your Dataverse environment directly from Application Insight, and therefore you may have implemented this standard integration between your Dataverse and Application Insight environment! However, we’re only talking about the standard Application… Continue Reading Allan De...
Power Apps Games – Tic Tac Toe
Hello, I’m very happy to annunce my first contribute to PNP community. I created and share source of my “Tic Tac Toe game” app , created with Power Apps. Tic Tac Toe game in Power Apps! You can get it from here: powerapps-samples/samples/TicTacToe at main · pnp/powerapps-samples This is a Tic Tac Toe game built with Power Apps. Is two player game (Player 0 and Player 1), basically the player who succeeds in placing...
Power Apps – PDF Function
Hello, really nice fuction under our lens today. “PDF Function”. What is this? Is an Experimental function to print Power Apps Screen as PDF. Let’s start! Enable functionality First of all, you must enable this feature: Enable experimental feature How can we use it? Basically , you should call “PDF” Function and pass it information about screen to “Print” as PDF. PDF… Continue Reading...
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...
SharePoint – Team Site without Microsoft 365 Group
Hello, here really simple post to explain how to create a SharePoint site without Microsoft 365 group associated. Create Site Follow there instructions: Clicck on App Launcher and then on “Admin”. Then click on “Expand all” , SharePoint and “Active sites” Then we can create site: Click on Create and “Other options”: Now we can create our site: <img loading=”lazy”...
Call cloud flows using webhooks
Call Cloud flows using webhooksLast week I had a business requirement about executing custom logic but only when the opportunity record goes from “in review” to “approved” status, in any other scenario the logic should not be executed. So, I was thinking to… Continue Reading wilmeralcivar88@gmail.com’s Article on their blog https://wilmeralcivar.com/webhooks_cloudflows/ Blog Syndicated with...
10 highlights of 2022 Release Wave 2
How time flies! 2022 Release Wave 2 plans are already here. The Release Plans describe new functionality planned to be rolled out from October 2022 to March 2023. In this post I have picked 10 features that I want to highlight from the Power Platform release plan. Remember that the plans are living documentation, features can be added or removed and dates might change. It’s time to prepare for… Continue Reading...
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...
Send Teams Activity Feed notification from Power Automate using custom Teams Bot
Activity feed notifications appears in the Teams activity feed panel with link to various locations thus enabling developers to build actionable content. These notifications are sent as push notifications in the Teams client. In this blogpost, let us see how to send Teams activity feed notification using < ol type=”1″>Custom Teams App with a BotPower Automate standard action: Post a feed… Continue Reading Mohamed...
The Microsoft Build 2022 adventure
Microsoft Build took place May 24–26. In this post we will look at the Build announcements from a Power Platform perspective. I will also tell you about a new little adventure of mine, give you my thoughts around Microsoft events and why I think it is for YOU and we will make a short trip back to Build 2021. The featured image does not really tell the truth, of course I did not just register… Continue Reading...
Call SharePoint REST API in a custom connector (Power Apps/Power Automate)
The Power Automate action Send an HTTP request to SharePoint could come handy in many scenarios to execute SharePoint REST API queries but you will not able to use this action directly in Power Apps. In this blogpost, let us see how to call the SharePoint REST API in a custom connector which can be used either in Power Automate or Power Apps. There are many REST API endpoints available within… Continue Reading Mohamed Ashiq...
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...
How to fix – Error when trying to retrieve data from the network
Learn how to fix the “Error when trying to retrieve data from the network” in Power Apps using 3 different methods! The post How to fix – Error when trying to retrieve data from the network appeared first on Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict. Continue Reading Hardit Bhatia’s Article on their blog How to fix – Error when trying to retrieve data from the network | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict Some errors...
What you might not know about FetchXML Builder
Recently MVP Jonas Rapp was invited by MVP Victor Dantas to the Zero to Hero show. The FetchXML Builder creator held the session FetchXML Builder from Zero to Hero. I listened in and afterwards I felt inspired to write this post to share a few tips and tricks that I had not used before. I have been missing out and perhaps you have too?! Background How did I first meet with… Continue Reading carinamclaesson’s Article on...
Fluent UI Combo Box Control – Better than classic?
Learn how Fluent UI combo boxes differ from the classic ones. Uncover a hidden feature that limits the data brought into an app! The post Fluent UI Combo Box Control – Better than classic? appeared first on Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict. Continue Reading Hardit Bhatia’s Article on their blog Fluent UI Combo Box Control – Better than classic? | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict Fluent UI controls were introduced as...
Send Teams channel message aka proactive message using custom Teams bot and Power Automate – Part 2
In the last post, we have seen till the installation of the Teams App with the Bot on a Microsoft Team. Let us now continue to send a proactive message, be it an Adaptive card or a simple Text message on a Teams channel using Bot Framework REST API from a Power Automate Cloud Flow. A proactive message is any message sent by a bot that isn’t in response to a request from a user. Ex: Welcome… Continue Reading Mohamed Ashiq...
Send Teams channel message aka proactive message using custom Teams bot and Power Automate – Part 1
Microsoft Teams connector in Power Automate has actions which can send a simple text message or Adaptive card as a flow bot in a Teams channel. Messages or cards are posted as the user who’s signed into the connector in the flow or by using the flow bot. Post adaptive card in a chat or channelPost message in a chat or channel Messages can be posted on a Teams channel only if the signed… Continue Reading Mohamed Ashiq...
BPFs to Visio – XrmToolBox tool
You have @TheMarkChristie to blame for this. I have shied away from creating a tool that documented your Business Process Flows for a while. You would think it was easier than Power Automate documentation but the inconsistencies and difficulties in the format of the XML that is the BPF is quite something. Persumambly, it is logic Microsoft has just added to over the years. But, yep, it is… Continue Reading LinkeD365’s...
How to create checklists using a single horizontal gallery!
In the 3rd post of this series, learn how to build checklists using a single horizontal gallery in Power Apps! The post How to create checklists using a single horizontal gallery! appeared first on Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict. Continue Reading Hardit Bhatia’s Article on their blog How to create checklists using a single horizontal gallery! | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict I outlined the data model for creating a checklist...
How to create checklists using a single vertical gallery!
In the 2nd post of this series, learn how to build expandable checklists using a single vertical gallery in Power Apps! The post How to create checklists using a single vertical gallery! appeared first on Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict. Continue Reading Hardit Bhatia’s Article on their blog How to create checklists using a single vertical gallery! | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict I outlined the data model for creating a...
How to create checklists using nested galleries!
In the 1st post of this series, learn how to build expandable checklists using nested galleries in Power Apps! The post How to create checklists using nested galleries! appeared first on Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict. Continue Reading Hardit Bhatia’s Article on their blog How to create checklists using nested galleries! | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict I outlined the data model for creating a checklist in a previous post that...
How to create checklists using galleries in Power Apps!
Power Apps galleries can be used for multiple purposes, creating checklists is one of them. Learn how to build them in multiple ways! The post How to create checklists using galleries in Power Apps! appeared first on Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict. Continue Reading Hardit Bhatia’s Article on their blog How to create checklists using galleries in Power Apps! | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict Creating checklists using Power Apps...
How to build Cows & Bulls – the numeric Wordle!
Learn how I created Cows & Bulls, a classic Wordle-like game, in Power Apps, what are the rules & how the screens look like! The post How to build Cows & Bulls – the numeric Wordle! appeared first on Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict. Continue Reading Hardit Bhatia’s Article on their blog...
Dataverse: Power Automate vs Plug-ins
If you have clicked on this article, it is not only due to this attractive title, but also because you have certainly asked yourself this question or simply because this subject may have come up in a discussion among your colleagues. If it is not for one of these reasons, you may never have had an issue with it, so you’ve come to the right place to save your time!As you can imagine from this… Continue Reading Allan De...
How to work with Connections in Dataverse
Learn what Connections and Connection Roles are, how to display connected records, and how to create new connections! The post How to work with Connections in Dataverse appeared first on Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict. Continue Reading Hardit Bhatia’s Article on their blog How to work with Connections in Dataverse | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict Dataverse has rich relational capabilities and provides many different...
How to work with Yes/No columns in Dataverse
Learn how to work with Yes/No Dataverse columns in canvas apps – how to display, filter by, and patch them! The post How to work with Yes/No columns in Dataverse appeared first on Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict. Continue Reading Hardit Bhatia’s Article on their blog How to work with Yes/No columns in Dataverse | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict A Yes/No column is similar to a Choice column but only allows for two values. Those...
How to work with Choice columns in Dataverse
Learn how to work with Choice Dataverse columns in canvas apps – how to display, filter by, and patch them! The post How to work with Choice columns in Dataverse appeared first on Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict. Continue Reading Hardit Bhatia’s Article on their blog How to work with Choice columns in Dataverse | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict A choice column provides a list of values for users to pick from. They help...