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Category: Power Platform

Add Spacers in Modern Form Designer in Power Apps

In Power Apps Modern Form designer now we can add spacer component to add some space between one field to another field. This option was long awaited option now we can use it. This will give another reason why we will not use Classic Solution editings. But remember the spacer component does not have any…
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Use Microsoft App Source to install apps into your power apps environment

Microsoft App Source is the largest app market place which we can leverage to find Free and Premium Apps for our environment. Let us see how you can navigate to App Source and Install Apps. Follow the steps below. Login your power apps environment and click on Solutions section. Click on Open App Source. Now…
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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.

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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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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Approvals in Power Automate using custom Approval scenario

Approvals in Power Automate is very powerful tool we can leverage to achieve Approve/ Reject Scenarios without writing single line of code. We can use 4 types of Approval scenarios as explained below. Approve/Reject – Everyone must approve Approve/Reject – First to respond Custom Response – Wait for all responses Custom Response – Wait for…
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How to use formula in Business Rules for Automations in Dataverse/ Dynamics 365

Business Rules is a game changer and we all know it. With out writing JavaScript and C# code plugins we just just configure to automate/validate many business logic using Business Rules. In this post I will tell you how you can leverage Business Rules using formula. Business Requirement: Calculate hourly rate of course by using…
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Filter Gallery by Dropdown list in Canvas Apps Power Apps

In this blog we will see how we can filter gallery control by connecting Dataverse/ Dynamics 365 tables using Dropdown list control. Also we will see how we can connect the dropdown with Choice field of Dataverse table. Lets start. Step:1 – Create a Canvas App Add Gallery, Dropdown, Connect Table Login to office.com and…
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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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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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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 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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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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Capture Image using Camera control, Save the image in SharePoint and Send email with attachment in Canvas APP with Power Automate

Using canvas apps we create portable business applications for users. Now in this post I will explain how we can create a canvas app with camera control and on clicking save button how we can call power automate to save the camera captured image in SharePoint and Send an email with the picture as attachment.…
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Open Custom page from Model driven app using new command editing in Power apps

This is really exciting that now we can edit command bar using model driven app modern designer which is in public preview. So I cant wait to tell you how we can use that feature. In this post I will tell you how you can create a CUSTOM PAGE in Model driven app to converge…
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Extract Tabular Data from PDF using AI Builder Form Processing Power Apps | Extract Field, Tabular Data

AI Builder plays an important role to have AI enables processes in our real business scenarios. In this post I will explain the steps how we can extract field information and also tabular data from PDF forms into power apps using AI Builder Form Processing Model. watch the video or scroll to read the complete…
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How to Send Email with Attachments using Gmail Connector from Canvas Apps | Power Apps

Canvas Apps Power Apps is a powerful no-code less-code platform to develop applications for enterprises targeting mobile and TAB devices. The Power FX is used as a less-code to make the Canvas App more dynamics. If you want to read and watch all canvas app related videos you can check out my YouTube channel here.…
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How to create Polymorphic or multi-entity lookup field in Microsoft DataVerse and Dynamics 365

Previously Lookup fields are only connected to one entity and Customer data type points to either Contact or Account entity but there was no provision to create custom polymorphic lookup. Now Microsoft introduced polymorphic lookup for custom fields. Using user Interface we cannot create this type of field we have to use code or XRMToolBox…
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Modern App Designer for Model-driven Apps very efficient to design (bye bye classic designer)

Model driven apps are game changers in Power Apps revolution. But still the app designer was not very robust so Microsoft has releases new App designer. Now lets see how we can leverage the New Modern app designer to create model driven apps in no-code fashion. Login to Power Apps and select +Create. Choose Model-driven…
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My Top Best features from 2021 Wave 2 releases of Microsoft Power Platform

Really excited to tell you a lot of features has been added in this Wave 2 release of 2021 in Microsoft Power Platform. Sometimes people have no much time go through all the features so I have compiled all best features of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent & power BI and AI Builder…
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Get Choice field Text in Power Automate from Microsoft DataVerse/CDS

Working with Power Automate is not new but sometimes the out-of-the-box value assignment is not sufficient to get correct data items so we need to tweak the expression to get the correct result. In this post I will explain how you can get the choice field text value in power automate. let us say I…
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Check the History of Environments

Now you can see the history of Power Platform environments to see different operations performed in the environment. Administrators can see this history. Go to Power Platform Admin Center and click the Environment then click History. You can see the consolidated history. You can also see the full history using See Full History option.