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Display in-app notification in model driven apps power apps for Dynamics 365

You can display in-app notifications in Dynamics 365. Follow the below steps: Step 1 – Enable Settings for In-app notification Open a model driven app of your choice and click on F12. in console paste the below code and press enter. Make sure to use correct model driven app unique name. Step 2 – Prepare…
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How to check dependencies of a component inside a solution in power apps

To check dependencies of a solution component first you need to open the component inside the solution. select the component and click Show Dependencies. Now it will open dependencies panel. Using which you can understand which other components depends on this component. You can notice the object type to understand component type. Here in our…
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Managed v/s Unmanaged Solution in Power Apps Dynamics 365

Here is the list of differences between Managed and Un-Managed solutions in Power APps. Managed Solution: Completed solution ready for distribution/export, in which the solution components are prevented from being modified in the target environment to which it is imported. Possible to set managed properties, granular levels of rights to change components of the solution…
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How to switch classic solution screen for dynamics 365

Microsoft already rolled out modern solution design using power apps. but sometimes you need to navigate to classic mode. TO switch to classic mode of solutions in dynamics 365 follow the below steps: Step 1 – Open Power Apps and Solution Area Browse https://make.powerapps.com/ and choose correct environment. Click on Solutions option from left panel.…
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Enable Custom Entity for the Dynamics 365 App for Outlook for tracking activities

To enable custom entities or other entities inside Dynamics 365 Apps for outlook follow below steps: Watch video here or scroll to read the blog for steps: Step 1 : Edit Dynamics 365 App for Outlook go to make.powerapps.com. choose correct environment. click on Apps area. Search Dynamics 365 App for outlook App. Click on…
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[Resolved] License cannot be assigned to a user without a usage location specified – While adding Guest user

While adding Guest user and assigning license you may get the below error. If you click the link it will open details and show the below error as The user is without a usage location specified. Resolution Click on Profile link and click Edit. In the settings area and choose Usage location and Save. Now…
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How to display long text in power portal as form field caption

Sometimes you need to display a paragraph as a caption for a form field in power portal or table form. But table fields do not support paragraphs to display. So how can you do? Follow below steps: Add a section inside tab and in the section label specify the paragraph you want to display. drag…
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Power Automate vs Logic Apps

Power Automate is built on top of Azure Logic Apps but there are differences in terms of the environments they are used from, e.g. Office 365 and Azure, which provides unique features and optional methods of construction. Here are some of the following key differences: Description Power Automate Logic Apps Focus End Users and Makers…
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Create your first PCF custom control step-by-step and deploy in Power Apps

Follow below steps to create your first PCF control for Power Apps. Step 1 – Install Node JS First you have to install node.js using official website of Node JS. Follow the link https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/ to navigate to Node JS site. Click on Windows Installer to download the setup file. chose a folder to save the…
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Connect Dataverse Dynamics 365 using Bearer token using power automate

To connect dynamics 365 dataverse using power automate you need to get the bearer token first. Follow below steps to get bearer token. You need to add URI with tenant id use correct tenant id from azure active directory application. URI = https://login.microsoftonline.com/652c35af-04b4-4d8f-9db0-9bb2c58bc908/oauth2/token Content-Type= application/x-www-form-urlencoded in body put below: (get this client id, client secret…
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Add or Remove items options from Multi-select optionset field (Choices) in Dynamics 365 power apps using javascript

In this article you will see how you can add or remove dynamically optionset values in a multi-select optionset or choices data type field in dynamics 365 power apps. Lets take a scenario: you have two fields one is Gender Choice (Male, Female) (Single select optionset) and another is Degree Choices (MCA, MBA, BTech, Bsc)…
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Hide command button on rule in Power Apps using PowerFX

To set visibility of command button using Power FX follow below steps: Add Command button using Edit in Preview method of Power Apps. Open any model driven app, click 3 dots to choose Edit in Preview and choose entity for which you want to add button. Choose where you want to add button. You can…
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Open custom page as modal pop-up from dynamics 365 power apps

You can open custom pages as a modal pop from Dynamics 365 form custom command button click. Step 1 : Create a Custom Page inside a Solution ( Read here how to add custom page ) Add a custom page inside a solution. The page contains a textbox and a button. on button click we…
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How to add Dynamics 365 Apps inside Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a hidden treasure. You can leverage Teams to add multiple diversified native and external apps from within the Teams App without navigating to external window. Follow steps below to add Dynamics 365 Apps inside Teams Apps. Step : 1 – Open Teams App and click Add App Open office.com using your official…
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Advanced Form in Power Portal Complete tutorial – Business Use Case and Practical Usage

Advanced Form in Power Portal gives advanced configuration designing Forms to interact with Dataverse. Here in this post I will explain by taking a business usecase. Business Use case Most of the Banking (BFS) and financial intuitions configure forms to apply loans online as a self service tool. You can leverage Portal Advanced form for…
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How to display Advanced Form on Power Portal Page

Step 1: Create an Advance Form in Power Portal First create a Advance Form in Power Portal with Advanced Steps. Step 2: Create a Web Page and associate the Advanced form in lookup Step 3: In the Content Page of Web Page, associate the Advanced form in lookup From the localized content area choose the…
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How to display icon in menu power portal

In power portal menu web link set you can display icon instead of text using font awesome classes. In the below screenshot I have a menu called as Student Page and I want to display an user icon instead of text. To change the text to icon navigate to Web link set which represents the…
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Open a webpage by clicking Create button for List in Power Portal

You can enable Create Record feature for a list control in power power portal. While enabling Create action feature you can choose either Form, Web page or URL to invoke target interface. Here I will tell you how you can open another page when use clicks Create button. First in Power Portal Studio open the…
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Display current date and time on power portal page

Using Liquid tag you can display current date time on power portal web page. use the below liquid tag on web page to display datetime. <h3> {{ now }} </h3> Now the date will render. hope this helps.

Content Snippets in Microsoft Power Portal

Content snippets are small section of editable content that you can place in any webpage, web template of power portal for re-usable concept. You can define your content once and re-use anytime in your portal. Let take an example, You want to keep a formal notice in multiple pages in your power portal then instead of…
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Progressive Web App (PWA) for Power Portal.

You can now convert Power Portal to a native app using PWA feature so that you can access portals using a native mobile app downloaded from app store. you can pin the app on screen and experience an native app like portal. Watch the complete video prepared by me here to understand practically how to…
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Hide button on click in Command bar Dynamics 365 JavaScript

Follow the below method to hid a button after click in Dynamics 365 CE. The scenario is we have a button on contact entity form and when someone clicks the button it should open a confirm dialog and do some operation and at the same time hide the button which initially clicked on the form…
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CRUD operation from HTML Web resource using javascript in Dynamics 365 CE CRM

Achieve CRUD operation using HTML Web resource in Dynamics 365 passing parameter from entity form. use the below JS web resource and HTML web resource. HTML Web Resource hope this helps.

Open HTML web resource on button click and pass data to web resource and display related records in table with paging, checkbox from dynamics 365

You can use JavaScript and Client API to open HTML web resource from Dynamics 365 Forms and pass data parameters to the web resource, read the parameter and fetch records using fetchXML from javascript in web resource. The below screenshot shows how the html web resource looks like when button is clicked. Watch video below…
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How to share canvas Power Apps to your peers or other internal users to use

To share a Canvas app to other users navigate to Power Platform Admin center. https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/ Open correct environment you are working. Select Power Apps which will list all power apps. Now select the canvas app from the list and click 3 dots option to choose Share. If you want to make the person as co-owner…
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Configure template apps for Power BI easily

Template apps in Power BI are developed for sharing outside your organization. A template app workspace will be created for developing and releasing the app. So let us see how you can develop templates step wise. Step 1: Login Power BI and Subscribe Power BI Pro Trial Version First login to Power BI using https://powerbi.microsoft.com/…
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