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Canvas Apps - Formatted Number Text Input and Display Demonstration
Colin Maitland, 19 April 2021
In this video blog, I will explain some limitations of using a Text Input control in a Canvas App to enter and display numbers. I will then demonstrate how a Label, Text Input and Timer control may be configured and used together to allow the data entry and display of formatted numeric values in a C
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 8
Colin Maitland, 02 March 2021
In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom Power BI embedded Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.In this final
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 7
Colin Maitland, 22 February 2021
In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom Power BI embedded Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.In this penul
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 6
Colin Maitland, 16 February 2021
In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom Power BI embedded Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.The two most
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 5
Colin Maitland, 22 January 2021
In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.In this article I will describe
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 4
Colin Maitland, 16 December 2020
In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.In a previous article I introdu
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 3
Colin Maitland, 30 November 2020
In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.In this article I will introduc
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 2
Colin Maitland, 26 November 2020
In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.In this article I will demonstr
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI
Colin Maitland, 08 November 2020
In this article, I will introduce a demonstration of a custom Power Apps Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.It is possible to create and update
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How to add the Subject Tree to the Site Map for a Dynamics 365 Model Driven App
Colin Maitland, 14 May 2020
In this article I demonstrate how to add Subjects to the Site Map for a Dynamics 365 Model-Driven App.Both Sales Literature and Subject are standard Dynamics 365 entities available for use as part of the Customer Engagement Plan and Customer Service App subscriptions. By default, Sales Literature mu
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A Tale of Two Countries - Charting Covid-19 Growth Rates with Power BI
Colin Maitland, 23 April 2020
Power BI is a great tool for analysing information. In this article, I demonstrate some charting approaches using some standard Power BI charts. The three examples of chart-sets in this article demonstrate my lay persons analysis of a ‘Tale of Two Countries’; i.e. comparison of the reported Covid-19
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How to Translate Dynamics 365 Field Values to Power BI
Colin Maitland, 23 January 2020
In this article, I demonstrate how to dynamically translate the Physical Name field values stored in the ‘Applicable From’ and ‘Related Field’ (i.e. SLA KPI) fields for Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and related Service Level Agreement Items (SLA Items) in Dynamics 365 to their equivalent Display N
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Using Measures instead of Bi-Directional Filtering Relationships to filter Slicers in Power BI
Colin Maitland, 19 December 2019
In this article I demonstrate how to filter slicers using a measure instead of using bi-directional filtering relationships. I will also briefly highlight that the implementation and use of bi-directional filtering relationships between dimensions and facts for the purpose of filtering slicers is no
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How to format numbers stored and displayed as text in a Canvas Power App
Colin Maitland, 17 December 2019
In this article, I demonstrate how to format the display of a number in a Canvas Power App as it is being entered by the user. This demonstration uses the example of a custom calculator created using various buttons, labels and formulas and which allows the user to enter up to 12 numeric digits as p
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How to Capture Power BI Queries sent to Dynamics 365
Colin Maitland, 10 December 2019
In this article I briefly demonstrate how to capture the queries that are sent by Power BI to Dynamics 365 (Online) when refreshing a table in a Power BI Data Model.The example used in this article is based on an Account query. This query includes steps to filter, select, sort and expand the retriev
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