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Add CSS Styles to Canvas App Power Apps Use Box border shadow for button look and feel

This post will explain how you can add CSS using HTML coding inside Canvas App. You will see how the normal rectangle can be converted to a 3D division given in below screenshot. Follow the steps below. Step 1: Create a Canvas App and select a Screen to add HTML Text component Inside your canvas…
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Barcode scanner app using canvas app power apps and capture customer signature using pen component

For every delivery business, you must need to capture the delivery information and its status. When a delivery boy delivers the product, the delivery need to scan the barcode of the physical product and capture signature of the customer so that the data will be saved in Dataverse. if you want to know how to…
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Debug a Published canvas App using Monitor Feature inside Power Apps

If you have published a canvas app and it throws some error and you want to debug, you can do it. First you have to enable the Debug published feature for your power apps using power apps settings. Open the Power Apps studio and go to settings and enable the feature given the below screenshot.…
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Working with Monitor features in Canvas Apps Power Apps

Monitor feature inside canvas app studio helps tracing events as they occur in a canvas app during the authoring in Power Apps Studio, or you can use Monitor to debug the published version of a canvas app. Follow the steps to monitor a scenario to know how to Monitor a canvas app while authoring. Step…
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Filter lookup values by another lookup value in Dynamics 365 or Dataverse Power Apps form

In Dynamics 365 or Dataverse Forms, you can choose what items to display and selectable for a lookup field depending on another lookup. For example in below form we have Customer lookup (Parent) and Bank Account (Child) Lookup. By default the Customer lookup display all active customers and Bank account display all bank accounts. But…
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Subgrid command button and PowerFX trigger Power Automate in Dataverse or Dynamics 365

You can add command buttons to Subgrid Command bar for an entity. For some business requirement, you can also call a JS or PowerFX on the command button click which will trigger a power automate. This post will explain a business scenario to do thi. The Scenario There are 3 entities Investment, Contact and Nominees.…
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[Solved] Failed to delete Fields (XXX). Object dependencies exist, please review before deleting error in Power apps

In a power app solution, you can remove a component or delete a component. Removing component will just remove the component from your solution but will be available in Default solution. If you delete a component, it will completely deleted from Organization. You will not find the deleted component from default solution also. Always prefer…
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Understanding Managed Properties in Power Apps Solution Components

Managed properties is introduced to allow component customizations inside a managed solution. By default all components are disabled for customizing in a managed solution. But for some reason if you want to allow customization for components inside a managed solution then you can follow below steps. Note that only inside a unmanaged solution you can…
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Change the default currency to local currency in dynamics 365

Dynamics 365 or Dataverse supports multiple currency. You can choose a base currency while creating an environment. For example USD. But if your users are working in different currency then they can change their default currency so that while dealing with customers, they can select local currency. To update default local currency the user need…
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Managed Environment in Power Platform

Managed Environments is a suite of capabilities that allows admins to manage Power Platform at scale with more control, less effort, and more insights. Administrators can use Managed Environments with any type of environment. You can manage Limit Sharing, Configure Weekly Digest and Data Policies configuration in Managed environments. A Trial environment can also be…
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[Answered]How to update latest release in Power Apps

Microsoft releases its new features every 6 months. To update the Power apps with new Wave fatures you can follow below steps. Step 1 : Navigate to Admin Power Platform Center Open browser and navigate to admin.powerplatform.com and then click Environments option then choose correct environment where you want to update. In the environment screen…
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List of context variables passed from Chatbot power virtual agent to omnichannel using agent transfer step

When Transfer to agent action is used in Power virtual agent, the list of context variables passed to omnichannel customer service app is listed below. Chat session details User information collected for hand-off using the Transfer to agent node. va_Scope bot va_LastTopic Greeting va_Topics Greeting va_LastPhrase Hi va_Phrases Hi va_ConversationId 75bBne7uYG2Dx49crXtxqE-us va_AgentMessage from chatbot va_BotId…
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Display only current user records using powerfx in canvas app gallery

Most of the times you need to filter records of a gallery in canvas app to display only records created by current login user. So how can you do this. You can use below PowerFX for the gallery. The below power fx uses search functionality with filter to only fetch created by user is current…
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Change the rollup field update frequency in Dataverse or Dynamics 365

By default, each attribute is updated hourly. When a rollup attribute is created or updated a Mass Calculated Rollup Fields job is scheduled to run in 12 hours But you can change it. Follow below steps to change the frequency. Business Scenario: We have a Total Loan Amount Rollup field in customer table and we want…
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Embed image in word document dynamically using Power Automate from Dataverse

If you want to embed images dynamically from Dataverse Image column in WORD document template using power automate, then this post will help you. Read my previous article to know how to generate QR Code and bar code using power automate and upload in image column in Dataverse. The scenario: We have 2 image columns…
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Generate QR Code/ Bar Code using Power Automate with Dataverse

You can generate QR codes/ Bar codes and store the QR code/ Bar code against a Dataverse record as an image file. Follow the below steps to achieve this business needs. Step 1 : Prepare Dataverse Table with Columns Open Power Apps and Navigate to Solutions and choose your solution with correct environment. Add respective…
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Send Email on behalf of another user inside Dynamics 365 model driven app

In Dynamics 365, You can use Timeline control or Activities area to create Emails, Phone calls etc. from within Dynamics 365. While creating an Email Activity inside Dynamics 365 record, by default the FROM address is populated as current login user but you can choose a different user in the FROM address, if you want…
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Image column display in Power Portal from Dataverse using FetchXML with Liquid code

Is you want to display the Image column from Dataverse to Power Portal page follow below method. First you need to build the FetchXML. If your column logical name is new_image then in fetchXML you need to use new_image_url So your FetchXML will look like below with liquid code. Then use the image using below…
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Get header field value on Form Dynamics 365 Model driven app using JavaScript

You can add maximum 4 fields on header of a entity form in model driven apps. But in JavaScript if you want to get values of any header field of the form you have to use header prefix while reading values. Check the code below and use it according to your business need. Hope it…
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How to enable Export PDF option for custom entities/tables in Dataverse Model Driven apps Dynamics 365

In Dynamics 365 Sales, you have seen that there is an EXPORT TO PDF button available for Quote and on clicking of which you can choose a Quote document template and you can download the PDF or send the PDF as an attachment to respective customer of your choice. The below snapshots are from Quote…
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Excel Operation Power Automate Get Records from Excel and Update in Dataverse

Here you will know how to extract records from an excel and insert records into Dataverse table. Follow the below steps. Step 1 : Prepare Excel Sheet with Table Insertion First you need to open the excel with data and insert a table to encapsulate the total record with header row. Now save the excel…
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Sample code Console App for Dataverse Dynamics 365 Power Apps

Console App Sample code.

Sample JavaScripts for Dynamics 365 CE or DataVerse Power APps

Dynamically Add event handlers in Dynamics 365 Form Scripts. Take a look of all code : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/model-driven-apps/clientapi/reference/xrm-webapi https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/model-driven-apps/clientapi/reference Hope this helps

Sample code for Plugin using Plugin Images in Dynamics 365 or Power Apps Dataverse

Here sample code given for Plugin using Plugin Images. Hope this helps.

Sample Plugin Code in Dynamics 365 or Power Apps Dataverse

Here is a simple code of plugin for your reuse. modify the code for your business need. Hope this helps.

Sample Custom Workflow Code Dynamics 365 CE or Dataverse

Here is the Sample Custom Workflow Activities code for your usages. Modify the code as per your business need. Hope this helps.