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How to create Transparent objects on canvas apps

Canvas app provides a lot of feature by which we can design elegant application for our business. One of the application UI design is to create some semi -transparent objects like circles, rectangles etc. on screen of canvas app. So let us see how we can design this. Step 1 – Open canvas app and…
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Set focus on a control of a canvas app screen when the screen loads

This is a very common requirement of customers and its quite obvious that the system should automatically focus on first control so that without clicking on the control we can start typing the value directly. Microsoft Power Apps Canvas provides a PowerFX by using which we can achieve this functionality. Let us see how we…
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Use of Date & Time Expressions Guide for Power Automate – Complete Tutorial

Date and Time field manipulations are very common in business applications. In Power Automate we can use a list of Data & Time related expressions to manage data time fields. In this post we will discuss all expressions about data and time field expressions. The below is the list of data & time expressions available…
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Convert Word to PDF from OneDrive and Send Email using Power Automate

Here in this blog we will see how we can create a word file in OneDrive and use Power Automate to read the word file and convert it to PDF and send the PDF to email as an attachment. Step-1: Create a Word File in OneDrive Open OneDrive and create a Folder “MyFiles” and inside…
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Know about Power Platform Tools | Developer Toolkit for Visual Studio 2019

In this blog we will see how we can use Power Platform Toolkit for our projects in Visual Studio 2019. Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio supports the rapid creation, debugging, and deployment of plug-ins and other customizations. Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio is similar in appearance and function to the Developer Toolkit we were…
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Steps to get a free Microsoft 365 E5 developer subscription​ for 90 days renewable

Now developers can get a free, renewable 90-day Microsoft 365 E5 developer subscription. As per the subscription you can get below benefits. You can be your own administrator and can prototype apps and solutions on your sandbox subscription. This includes 25 user licenses for development purposes. Access core Microsoft 365 workloads and capabilities (Windows not included), including:…
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15 Important facts of Solution Patch in Dynamics 365

Solution Patch is a great way to create and publish solutions that contain subcomponents of entities rather than publishing the entire entity and all of its assets. Although its a best way to migrate small changes or hot fixes to target environment for a parent solution we have to remember some important facts. Important Notes…
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How to clear PL-900 with Free of Cost

Certification fives more credibility to your Resume and also will give more chance in getting jobs of your choice in market. But sometimes its difficult to identify which certification is suitable for you. As because the Certification enrollment are cost associated so you need to understand which certification is Best. let me tell you the…
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[Solved] Clear lookup field in Dataverse from Power Automate.

You can use below expression to clear lookup field. use null expression in Power Automate. In the power automate use null function in the update step. Now if you run the flow the account lookup gets cleared. Hope this helps.

How to clear lookup field in Dataverse/ Dynamics 365 using canvas app

Here we will see how we can make lookup field blank using Canvas App. I have taken a gallery to display Contacts and displaying the First name, last name and Account. here I have taken a button in every row and trying to make the Account field blank for the selected row from the gallery.…
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How to use Components in Canvas Apps Power Apps – Re-usable components

Components are reusable building blocks for canvas apps so that app makers can create custom controls to use inside an app, or across apps using a component library. Components can use advanced features such as custom properties and enable complex capabilities. This article introduces component concepts and some examples. Read the Microsoft article here. Watch…
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New look for Solution editing in full screen is upcoming for Dataverse

Solutions in Dataverse is the important feature to combine customization components target to be distributable. In last many months the solution editing is revamped with modern way of editings. Still adding more features which will remove the classic solutions. We are a upcoming full screen solution design experience. let us see how it works. Login…
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How to create a shared mailbox for Dynamics 365 Team

Normally when we create teams (Owner Teams/Access Teams/Queues) in Dynamics 365 we require a shared mailbox so that any communication done using the mailbox can be accessed by all members of the team. So in this post we will see how we can create a shared mailbox and use it in teams. Login Office 365…
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Create a Office 365 Group and Add users in the group

Microsoft Says “Microsoft 365 Groups is a service that works with the Microsoft 365 tools you use already so you can collaborate with your teammates when writing documents, creating spreadsheets, working on project plans, scheduling meetings, or sending email.” So the point here is by creating a group we can collaborate with each other that…
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How to add users in Office 365 online

For Dynamics 365 online the Users are added using office 365 online then it will be synched automatically to Dynamics 365. Follow the steps below to add users. Open https://www.office.com/apps and click on Admin icon. Now in the Admin screen Expand Users menu. if you don’t find users menu click on Show All Option to…
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[Solved] User is not showing in Dynamics 365 online users area created in office 365

When you create a User using Office 365 for Dynamics 365 online then sometimes it does not appear in Dynamics 365 Advanced Settings-> Users area. Also if you select “Users with no security Roles” then also you cannot find the user to assign a security role. So follow the below method to solve this. First…
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[Step-by-Step] Custom API in Microsoft Dataverse/Dynamics 365 Configuration and Demo with Plugin

In this post I will explain how you can configure Custom API Request, Custom API Request Parameters and Custom API Response Parameter. DataVerse supports creating custom API so that external applications call the API to perform some custom action. We can also call Plugins from the Custom API. In this post I will show you…
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[Step-by-step] Connect Dynamics 365 Online from Postman using WebAPI Auth 2.0 Authentication

Postman is a very robust application software for testing Web APIs. Dynamics 365 supports Web API interactions to communicate with table data from Public clients using access tokens or ID tokens. Also we can use OAuth 2.0 Authentication to connect for performing WEB API operations. Lets see here step by step how we can connect…
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[Solved] response_type ‘token’ is not enabled for the application in Dynamics 365 and Postman connection

While connecting Dynamics 365 Online using Postman or any other custom code if you get the below error then use the solution here. response_type ‘token’ is not enabled for the application Solution: Open Azure Active Directory and navigate to App Registration area then select the App for which you are using the Client Id. Then…
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Auto Number in Dynamics 365 Plugin or Dataverse plugin

Dataverse already having a AutoNumber data type which we can use to generate auto number for our tables field. But if for some reason if you want to implement Auto Number generation for tables then you can write a plugin which will do the work for you. It requires a configuration table to store current…
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Working with Plug-ins for entities with N:N relationship in DataVerse/Dynamics 365

We all know that (many-to-many) N:N relationship creates an Intersect table. When we add related record for an entity then the Event that is triggered is Associate. For N:N we cannot handle using Create or Update Message. This is specific to N:N relationship. So Here I am presenting how we can handle the plugin code…
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How to know the size of tables in Dataverse or Dynamics 365

Capacity page in the Power Platform Admin Center can be used to extract the details of database size occupied by table within a specific environment. So Lets see how you can check it. Login to Power Platform admin Center using the link https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/ Choose the Capacity option under Resources. Then select Dataverse. If you are using…
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Lookup Field update in Edit Form, Display Form, Gallery using Canvas Apps

When we are working with Canvas Apps we Create, Updated, Retrieve and Delete records for Dataverse or Dynamics 365 tables using Gallery, Forms and other UI components of Canvas Apps. Working with simple Data Type fields is ok but when it is a matter of Look Up Field its not straight forward so we need…
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Connect D365 using ADAL from HTML page from a Single Page Web Application

ADAL script can be downloaded from https://secure.aadcdn.microsoftonline-p.com/lib/1.0.17/js/adal.min.js Create an Empty website and add an HTML page. use the below code for your HTML page. After updating the code, Register an Application in Azure Active Directory. Follow this tutorial to understand how to Register an App in Azure AD and provide required permission for Dynamics 365.…
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