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Five Features you may have missed in Wave 1 2022
Arthur Mandisodza, 20 May 2022
There are plenty of substantial changes in the Wave 1 release this year. There are big features highlighted as flagships of the update and there are also plenty of smaller updates that will improve user experience with Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform.1. Makers can collaborate on the same app by
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Restrict Power Apps Portals to Administrators
Dominic Liu, 17 May 2022
Website maintenance is important for all organisations, both big and small. Regularly maintaining your site will improve performance and provide a safe and secure environment for your visitors. In other situations like deploying new updates to the website, the website will need to be entirely blocke
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NZBN Integration for Dynamics 365 Add-on Installation Guide
Paul Nieuwelaar, 15 May 2022
NZBN Integration for Dynamics 365 which allows you to search for real-time data direct form the New Zealand Companies Office and pull directly into Dynamics 365.Please follow the five easy steps below to get the trial underway.1. Download the NZBN Integration solution, and install it into your Dynam
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NZ Post Integration for Dynamics 365 Add-on Installation Guide
Paul Nieuwelaar, 15 May 2022
NZ Post Integration for Dynamics 365 which allows you to search for real-time address data direct from the New Zealand Post and pull directly into Dynamics 365.Please follow the five easy steps below to get the trial underway.1. Download the NZ Post Integration solution, and install it into your Dyn
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How to configure a Top X Slicer in Power BI
Colin Maitland, 13 May 2022
In this article, I will demonstrate how to configure a slicer and related visualisation, such as a table or chart, to dynamically select and display the Top X Customers based on a measure such as Won Revenue in a Power BI report. The pattern demonstrated in this article can be adapted to suit your b
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Overview of the View Management in Model-Driven Apps
Arthur Mandisodza, 11 May 2022
The view management feature in Dynamics 365 allows users to have more abilities to collaborate and share views, empowering users to have more control of their workspace by giving them the full capability to change what views they see, the order of the views and more personalized options. There is n
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Power BI - Calculating Mean and Actual or Percentage difference from Mean for a Measure using DAX
Colin Maitland, 10 May 2022
In this article, I will demonstrate how to use DAX to calculate the Mean, Actual Difference from Mean and Percentage Difference from Mean for a set of values calculated by a measure in Power BI. The Mean is the average of a set of numbers. That is, the sum of the values divided by the number of valu
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Using Power Apps for Teams Power FX Formula Columns in Dataverse
Jared Johnson, 05 May 2022
Formula table columns are currently in preview, but Microsoft docs state that they are only available in Power Apps for Teams for now.Now while the Maker experience is only available in Power Apps for Teams, can we create them there and bring them into our normal Dataverse environment?To test this,
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Analysing Donor and Supporter dates in Power BI
Colin Maitland, 27 April 2022
In this article, I will demonstrate an approach that may be used in Power BI to analyse the dates such as Created On, First Donation and Last Donation dates for Donors or Supporters. This approach may also be considered for other scenarios, such as First Sale and Last Sale dates for Customers, First
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Changes to Auditing in Dynamics 365
Calum Jacobs, 21 April 2022
Microsoft has just recently release changes to the way you can manage Audit records/logs in dynamics 365. Before these changes, audit logs could be visible individually through records under auditing or as grouped quarterly partitions. There wasn’t a whole lot you could do to maintain logs other th
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Power BI - How to document a custom Power Query function
Colin Maitland, 17 April 2022
In a previous article, I demonstrated the configuration of a Custom Power BI UTC to Local Date/Time with Daylight Saving Time Function named UTCDateTimeZoneToLocalDateTime. Power Query can use this custom M function in a Power BI data model connected to Dataverse to transform UTC Date/Time/Zone data
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Get and Set Dynamics 365 Environment Variables from JavaScript
Paul Nieuwelaar, 14 April 2022
OverviewEnvironments Variables are a useful feature of Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. They allow us to use values in things like Power Automate which are environment specific, such as API details, which might be different in each environment.When deploying environment variables to another envi
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Dynamics 365 Model Driven App Fallback and Role-based Forms
Adam Murchison, 07 April 2022
When working with forms in a Model Driven App you can select which forms you want to have in the app. You can control what form the user can see by Security roles, Model Driven Apps or JavaScript. This allows a unique experience for users depending on what Model Driven App they’re in.Security roles
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Power BI: Is On Or Before Highest Transaction Date Pattern
Colin Maitland, 06 April 2022
In this article, I demonstrate using a DAX pattern named ‘Is On Or Before Highest Transaction Date’. This pattern may be used to prevent values from being calculated for dates in report that are higher than the highest date of the transactions being reported on. This pattern prevents you
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Power BI: Is On Or Before Highest Transaction Date Pattern
Colin Maitland, 05 April 2022
In this article, I demonstrate using a DAX pattern named ‘Is On Or Before Highest Transaction Date’. This pattern may be used to prevent values from being calculated for dates in report that are higher than the highest date of the transactions being reported on. This pattern prevents you
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