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How to be a Microsoft Certified Professional in Dynamics 365 & Power Platform

If you want to be a Microsoft Certified Professional in Dynamics 365 & Power Platform then watch the video below for step by step guide.

Sales Insight in Dynamics 365 – Sales Accelerator in details

In this post I will explain about how to use Sales Accelerator feature in Sales Insight for Dynamics 365 Sales. This is s series blog of my previous blog. If you have not read the first blog read here using below link. Now lets start. Go to Sales Insight Settings from Sales Hub app and…
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Sales Insights Add-on for Dynamics 365 Sales – Concept and Configuration

Dynamics 365 sales Insights is a very powerful add-on which allows artificial intelligence concept to be readily used by the Sales Team. It uses Dynamics 365 applications data stored in the Dataverse and provides proactive insights according to the results captured.  It allows us to understand the business relationships better, evaluate the operations about previous…
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How to export and import flows in Power Automate

Power Automate is a game changer in Workflow automations in cloud applications. When we are ready with our flow design we can share with others using Export and Import operation. Watch the full video here to understand the scenario:

Microsoft Ignite November 2021 Key Announcements

Check out here the Microsoft Ignite November 2021 Key Announcements. Here I have explained about Top 7 key announcements by Microsoft.

Call Azure Function from Dynamics 365 using Webhooks

Azure Function is an important concept in Integration which we can develop using C# code and deploy in Azure App Service and we can call the function using Webhooks in Plugin Registration Tool from Dynamics 365 or Dataverse. Watch the practical demo in the below video. Hope this helps.

Custom connectors in Power Apps – How to configure custom connector in power apps

Microsoft Provides 200+ connectors like OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams etc. But sometimes if the connector is not sufficient we can create our own custom connector. Watch the below video to understand the complete process of configuring custom connector to connect third party APIs. Hope this helps

Use SharePoint to store documents from Power Apps Portals

We can use Power Apps Portal to store documents is SharePoint. For this we have to enable the SharePoint Integration for Portals. lets see how we can do this. Step:1 – Enable SharePoint Integration for Portal Login admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com. Then select the environment and click on Resources then click Portals. Now choose your Portal and click…
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Performance tuning in Canvas Apps Power Apps using Caching & Concurrent

Canvas App changed the way we design mobile applications. We can easily configure Canvas Apps by connecting multiple data sources in a minute. But in the configuration journey we have to keep the app performance point into consideration otherwise the app performance will be very slow. In this post I will discuss 2 important performance…
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Validate data using PowerFX function in canvas app

using Power Query we can export template and import data with template. Lets say I have a screen in canvas app and a text field to enter email id and a button to submit data. My requirement is whenever the email is valid email address then only enable Submit button. so how we can do…
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Format Currency Display in Canvas App Power Apps for different country

Currency field is used store monetary value in power Apps but when we display the currency field value in Power Apps some times we need to do formatting to display in correct way. In the below screenshot you can see in the canvas app I am displaying annual revenue but it does not display like…
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Create or Update records without using Forms in Canvas Apps using Patch function

When we build canvas apps in Power Apps, we add Galleries to display records from our data source and Forms to view, create, and edit individual records, but sometimes forms are not enough to achieve our business scenarios. For those scenarios, We use Power Apps functions for updating tabular data sources directly. Patch is used…
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Display Rule v/s Enable Rule in Dynamics 365 Command buttons

Display Rules in Dynamics 365 are evaluated server-side, but Enable Rules are evaluated client-side. As a result, there are some types of rules that can be used in one but not the other. For example, you can only use an EntityPrivilegeRule in a Display Rule, but a Custom Rule can only be used in an…
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use of Enable Rule using Field Value for commands buttons in Dynamics 365 Forms (Ribbon Workbench Part -5)

This is a post of ribbon workbench series blog. To completely understand this blog you have to read all previous blogs. The blogs are given here. part – 1 – how to install ribbon workbench par-2 – how to to add button in dynamics 365 using ribbon workbench part-3 – how to add JavaScript function…
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Dynamics 365- Hide button in command bar on form field value condition (Display Rule)- Ribbon workbench (Part-4)

In this post we will see how we can only display a command button on some form field value condition. Watch my previous blogs where I explained : How to install ribbon workbench in Dynamics 365 2. How to add a button and call URL Action in Dynamics 365 3. How to trigger JavaScript function…
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Ribbon workbench (Part-3) for Dynamics 365- Add a custom button on entity form in Account with JavaScript action to read Form Fields

In our previous article we have seen how we can add a button and on click on button how to open an external or internal URL. now in this post we will see how we can call a JavaScript on button click. Follow the previous blog to know how to add button and add command…
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Ribbon workbench (Part-2) for Dynamics 365- Add a custom button on entity form in Account with URL Action command

In our previous article we have seen how to install ribbon workbench in Dynamics 365. In this post we will see how we can add a simple button on Account entity form. Step:1 – Create a solution in Power Apps Open make.powerapps.com choose correct environment and click on Solutions option then create a new solution.…
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Ribbon workbench (Part-1) for Dynamics 365- How to install ribbon workbench

Ribbon workbench is a very powerful tool for customizing command bar in Dynamics 365 model driven apps. This post will explain how we can configure Ribbon Workbench for Dynamics 365. Step:1 – Download Ribbon Workbench Go to Develop1 website here. Click on Download button and Provide your name, Email and Dynamics 365 version. If you…
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[Solved] Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory, Version=2.18.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. In Azure Function and Dynamics 365 Integration

While working with Azure Function to connect Dynamics 365 you might face below error. Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory, Version=2.18.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. The Solution: This error comes because of Version mismatch in Assemblies of Microsoft Core Assemblies and Project .NET Framework.…
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Configure field dependency in Power Apps Solutions for JavaScript Web Resources

Working with solution is not new for us. While working with solutions we have to follow best practices by managing component dependencies to avoid unknowing breaking of components. lets us take an example. You are trying to validate a field using JavaScript and you need to have the field on the form. But somehow as…
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Save Outlook email attachments in OneDrive using Power Automate

Open Power Automate and Create new flow and name it as per your wish. Use connector outlook and trigger is “When a email received”. make sure to use Include Attachment and Only with Attachment as YES. Now we have to read all attachments and loop through the attachment and connect OneDrive to create document. In…
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Enable Advanced lookup in Power Apps in Dynamics 365/ Dataverse

Advanced lookup gives a better way to search records. So let us see how we can enable this behavior of lookup in power apps. Login to Office.com and click on Power Apps icon. Choose correct environment. Click on Gear icon and choose Admin Center or directly open https://admin.powerplatform.com. Choose correct environment and click settings. Choose…
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How to enable Dataverse Search in Power Apps

Now the modern search is Dataverse search. So how can we enable it lets see here. Login to https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/. and select the environment and click on b. Choose Product Feature and select Dataverse Search navigate to Search panel and Enable it and Save it. Now open any model driven app and you will see Dataverse…
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Solution Overview gives all information about a solution in power apps

In modern power apps solution design there are many features added. One of this is solution overview. This gives information about the solution in details. Login Office.com and Click on Power Apps. Select correct environment and choose Solutions from sitemap. click on a solution. Make sure the solution preview in ON. Now click on your…
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