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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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New feature for Advanced Find in Power Apps, Now enjoy new UI for advanced find in Dynamics 365

First navigate to https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments and then select correct environment. Now you will see an Update section. By default the 2022 release wave 1 is off. click on Manage. In the next side panel click on Update now. Note that the updates cannot be rolled back. If you want to see the new features which are…
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Get Power Platform 2022 Wave 2 Release plan document free

Microsoft planned to release a lot of power feature inside power platform bundle. To go through all features navigate to the below address. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2022wave1/index Download Release PDF Here : https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2184918 For Wave 2, 2022 release plan navigate to below address: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2021wave2/ Download PDF : https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2167228 Hope this helps.

Dynamics 365 Release Plan Wave 1, 2022 Documents available here

If you want to read complete release notes of feature which are part of 2022 Wave 1 release of Dynamics 365 then follow these steps. Navigate to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/ Then click on menu sub link Release Plan. Now you will see all release plans you can get. Click on Dynamics 365 2021 release wave 1. If…
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Restrict Users in BPF

Restrict Users in BPF using workflow.

Environment Variables usage in Power Apps

In this post we will see how to create environment variables in a solution. How to use environment variables in canvas app power apps. Watch the video below to learn more. hope this helps.

How to track employee entry and exit using Power Automate

The below apps will tell you How to track employee entry and exit using Power Automate. We can define an instant flow to track employee tracking of timing. Watch the video below to learn more. Hope this helps.

Merge duplicate records into one record in dynamics 365 CE – decide for merging

While working with dynamics 365 sometimes we face with duplicate records and we need to decide whether we will merge the new field information with existing record. Watch the video to learn more about merging. hope this helps. Dynamics 365 CE Functional Training Core Modules Sales, Marketing, Services, Field Service, Project Service Automation Configurations and…
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Early Binding v/s Late Binding in Dynamics 365 Custom code

While writing custom code using dot net for dynamics 365 CE we can write code either using early-binding or late binding. There are many advantages and disadvantages in both lets look both and decide which one you can use. Late Binding In late binding we do not need to do entity class generation process. The…
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Playbooks in Dynamics 365 CE Sales App

Playbooks feature can be used to automate the sales processes or events in the Dynamics 365 CE without knowing Dynamics 365 CE customizations like workflows, plugins, etc. meaning, we can set up automated processes like activities such as Phone Call, Email, Task by simply creating records in the CRM. Learn more about Playbooks such as…
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Use filters no-code in Power Automate

While retrieving list items from Share Point you can use OData to filter record. Now in Power Automate you can use visual no-code functionality to build filter. This feature is in experimental so you have to enable the experimental feature first. Open power automate and in the setting icon click View all Power Automate Settings.…
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How to configure a Custom Connector in Power Apps to call third party Web API

Microsoft has 200+ ready-made connectors to connect native and third party applications. But if the application connector is not available then we can build custom connector. The below screenshot shows a list of available connectors in Power Apps some are FREE and some are Premium connectors. Lets take an example of third party WEB API…
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