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    • Using Power Query to create a Date table

      Colin Maitland, 14 October 2022

      In this article, I will demonstrate how to use Power Query in an application such as Microsoft Excel or Power BI Desktop to create a Date table.When creating a data model, it is common to have a Date table for use in measures and visualisations. This is particularly important for Date/Time Intellige

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    • Remove Sign-In Page in Power Apps Portals

      Adam Murchison, 23 September 2022

      When signing into a Power Apps portal, by default it is set to show you a basic authorisation page. To go directly to your own authorization page is very easy and makes the user experience much nicer. This blog is following on from my Auth0 authentication blog, so we’ll demonstrate using the Auth0 l

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    • Power BI - P2 - Calculate Change vs Difference for two Date Ranges

      Colin Maitland, 19 August 2022

      This is the second part of a two-part article in which I demonstrate how to structure the Power BI data model and write measures to calculate and display the change and difference between two user selected sets of dates for a measure.In the first article, I demonstrated the configuration of the data

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    • How to add Knowledge Base Articles in Power Apps Portals

      Dominic Liu, 04 August 2022

      Recently, I have been working on a Power Apps Portal project, and our customers requirement is to add Knowledge Base Articles (KB Articles) on the portal webpages so that they can easily change the content inside Dynamics 365, here are two ways to add KB Articles on the webpage.Table PermissionsTabl

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    • Power BI - P1 - Calculate Change vs Difference for two Date Ranges

      Colin Maitland, 26 July 2022

      This is the first part of a two-part article in which I demonstrate how to structure the Power BI data model and write measures to calculate and display the change and the difference between two user selected sets of dates for a measure such as Actual Revenue for Won Opportunities.The image below sh

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    • Authenticating Power Apps Portal with OAuth 2.0

      Adam Murchison, 15 July 2022

      Power Apps portals come with a bunch of identity providers out of the box to authenticate users such as the below providers: Another alternative to use is using a custom Open ID provider, one of many OAuth 2.0 providers is called Auth0, for the purpose of demonstration I’ll be using this to configur

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    • Lookup Fields on Power Apps Portal

      Dominic Liu, 02 July 2022

      Lookup fields can define views that display different sets of values from the associated entity. We often use lookup fields in Dynamics 365 to handle the relationships between tables. However, if you have a lookup field on your table that is linked to a reference table, the view is not related as we

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    • Analysing a Power Automate Flow with the Process Advisor

      Isaac Stephens, 01 July 2022

      Have you wanted to analyse some of your Power Automate flows? Maybe some of the more complex ones with multiple paths? Do you have a flow that sometimes takes a long time to run? Well Microsoft have recently released the Process Advisor to General Access, but what is the Process Advisor and how can

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    • Part 1: How to create Test Plans and Test Cases in Azure DevOps

      Harshani Perera, 30 June 2022

      Azure DevOps is a great place for everyone on the team including Business Analysts, Developers, Project Managers and Testers to collaborate on a project. It allows transparency and ease of communication to keep all information in one place so it’s visible to everyone. In this series, I will share wi

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    • Resolve problems with Dynamics 365 for Outlook Client with Edge

      Jared Johnson, 29 June 2022

      If you are still using the old Dynamics 365 for Outlook Client, you may notice issues when using it with Microsoft Edge. When trying to create/edit a Dynamics 365 record from inside the Outlook Client, it will open the record in Edge, but in Outlook there will be just a blank white popup that will e

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    • ClickDimensions Import Failure - Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed

      Ryan Blaikie, 25 June 2022

      ClickDimensions import for Marketing Lists is a helpful feature when you want to add members based on an Excel spreadsheet rather than based on an existing view in Dynamics 365. However, sometimes if the import fails it can be confusing to determine what the cause of the issue is and how to fix it.

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    • Rollback a request on Failure in Power Automate

      Isaac Stephens, 16 June 2022

      When using Power Automate to update Dataverse / Dynamics 365 you may not want the changes to be saved if a related action fails. For example, you may want to create two records and then update a third, but you only want this to happen if all three are successful. In this blog post I will show you ho

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    • Power Query - Conditionally Replace Values in a Column with Values from another Column

      Colin Maitland, 27 May 2022

      In this article, I will demonstrate how to use Power Query to conditionally replace values in a column with values from another column. We want to do this with the least number of steps, while handling blank values and maintaining the data type of the column for which values are to be replaced. For

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    • How to Re-instate the Alphabet Bar for Dynamics 365

      Ryan Blaikie, 25 May 2022

      Microsoft’s Wave 2 update in October introduced a lot of great new features; however, you might have been disappointed to log in one day and discover that the alphabet bar at the bottom of your views suddenly disappeared. If you’re like me, this is a feature that you use often to quickly find the ri

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    • Calculate Mean, Median, Mode and Percentile for a Measure in Power BI

      Colin Maitland, 22 May 2022

      In this article, I will demonstrate how to calculate the Minimum, Maximum, Mean, Median, Mode and Percentile for a set of values calculated using a measure. This demonstration considers whether the rows for which the measure returns a blank result are included or excluded. I will also demonstrate th

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