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Category: Power Apps

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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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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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.

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.

Get daily reminder from outlook.com using Power Automate

Login to Power Automate. Click on the Templates option and choose the template “Get daily reminders from your outlook email”. After selection the system will ask for outlook.com login. provide your credential of outlook.com and click Continue. Now you will see the trigger as Recurrence and action as send email. Choose the To address and…
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Check page title and display dynamic text using liquid in power portal

Check page and use liquid. hope this helps.

Understanding Record Source Type setting in Basic Forms in Power Portal

Record Source Type setting is used to define how the information is passed to the form: There are 3 types of record source type can be used. Query String – This setting is default when you are creating a table form or a basic form in power portals Studio. When the page that contains the form is…
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Add custom button in power portal list and open external site on click

You can open external URL by specifying URL option in grid configuration in a List in power portal. Go to Portal Management Model driven app and navigate to options, click on create. It will add a create section and in the target type choose URL. Mention the target URL in the box such as “https://logyscal.com/”.…
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Download action in Power Portal Entity List configuration

In Power Portal Table List you can configure Download action option so that when you click the Download button the data from the list will be automatically downloaded in the system. For this open Portal Management Model Driven app and navigate to Lists. Select the List for which you want to enable and in the…
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Use regular expression in Power Portal form field

Regular expression in JavaScript is very powerful way to validate a specific format of a field such as Email, Phone number etc. In Power Portal we can use regular expression to validate form fields without writing code just using configuration. Open the Basic form and go to Form Metadata. Add new form metadata of type…
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Call Power Automate using JavaScript from Dynamics 365 Forms

In this post I will explain about the steps to call Power Automate from Dynamics 365 JavaScript. Let us take a scenario, I want to send a PDF with Account information when an account is created in the system using JavaScript. For this follow below steps: Step:1 – Configure Power Automate Open Power Apps solution…
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Text counter in Canvas Apps Power Apps

Some requirement needs to have a counter so that when we type text inside a text input the label will show the maximum character or how many character left to enter. For this requirement take one label to display counter and one text input having multiline text mode. Select the label and in the Text…
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Check field value numeric in Power Apps canvas apps

Sometimes we need to validate fields to match with a numeric only like Ages, No. of days etc. So for this scenarios we need to use some PowerFX to validate form fields. Let us see how we can achieve this. Take 3 controls on the canvas app. one Text Input and two text labels. One…
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Working with Day, Month, Year, Hour, Minute, Second, and Weekday functions in Power App

We can use PowerFX to use the day, month, year, hour, minute, second and weekday concepts in our Power Apps. Lets see in details. Day PowerFX Day PowerFX returns the day component of the current time and date. Syntax : Day(Now()). This will give you the current date part. If the date is 12/21/2021 then…
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How to overwrite an environment with a copy of another environment

For business needs we can overwrite an existing environment. Follow the steps below to copy or overwrite existing environment. Step : 1 – Open Power Platform Admin Center and Select Existing Environment Open the power platform admin center. You can direct click the link to open – https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments now select the environment and click Copy.…
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Cascading dropdown list in Power apps connecting to SharePoint

Cascading dropdown list is very common in programming and software world. In Power apps also we can use this concept o achieve the cascading logic. Lets take a scenario: We have a SharePoint List to store Country, State and City. All information will be displayed in Power apps as dropdowns. When someone select Country the…
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Retrieve more than 5000 records from dataverse or dynamics 365 in Power automate using fetchxml paging

In this post I will explain about paging concept using FetchXML with Power Automate to retrieve records from Dataverse or Dynamics 365 CE/CRM. Watch the below video for practical knowledge. Or you can scroll down to read the article. Step 1 – Create a Flow and add required variables Create a new Instant flow and…
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65+ Power Apps interview Questions and answers

Here in this post I have compiled 65+ interview questions and answers for Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents and many more on Power Platform. Check out the complete questions here: Explain about the Power platform echo-system? What are PowerApps and why do we use it? What is the difference between a…
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Ads and Ads Placement in Power Portal – Configurations and Demo (no code)

In this post I will explain about Ads and Ads Placement concepts in power portals. As because power portals are public facing websites we can run Ads on power portal web pages of our choice. We can also configure display styles, positions, live from date and expire date of Ads. Lets us see how we…
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Update Dynamics 365 records in bulk from Canvas Apps Power Apps using with, ForAll and patch PowerFX function

PowerFX is a most Powerful way to use complex business logics in Canvas Apps Power Apps. When we combine multiple functions then the PowerFX gets more power. In this blog I will explain how we can combine 3 most powerful PowerFX to do complex tasks. Business Scenario: Lets Say I want to have a Button…
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Call Custom Action from JavaScript and Run Plugin for custom message in Dynamics 365 or Power Apps

In this post I will tell you how to call custom Action from JavaScript Web Resource and Pass Input Parameters to Custom Action from JavaScript, Also we will see how to call a plugin under same custom action. Watch the video below to learn more practical way otherwise scroll down to read the article. Step:…
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Configure Auto-Numbering in Power Apps/Dynamics 365 without code

In this blog we will see how we can configure auto numbering concept in Power Apps/ Dynamics 365 without writing a single line of code. Login to make.powerapps.com and open the solution with which you are working. Add the table component and inside the table component. Add a new field and select data type as…
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