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How to Call a Child Flow from a Parent Flow
Satyvir Jasra, 06 November 2019
As part of the October release, Microsoft released quite a lot of new features for Microsoft Flow (now part of Microsoft Power Automate) which makes development easier and faster for Users. One of those cool new features is the addition of ‘Run a Child Flow’, which means we can call a child Flow fro
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How to sort Dynamics 365 Sales Pipeline stages in Power BI
Colin Maitland, 05 November 2019
In this article, I demonstrate how to sort Dynamics 365 Sales Pipeline stages in Power BI.The following image shows part of an analysis of Open Opportunities by Sales Pipeline stage. The Sales Pipeline stages have been implemented using Business Process Flow stages; e.g. Qualify, Develop, Propose an
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Transforming Dynamics 365 UTC Date/Time to local Daylight Saving and Standard Date/Time in Power BI
Colin Maitland, 04 November 2019
In this article, I demonstrate the transformation of Dynamics 365 UTC Date/Time values to New Zealand (NZ) Local Date/Time and Date values in Power BI, taking into account Daylight Saving Time.This demonstration highlights a significant difference in the transformation of these values when the Power
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Dynamics 365 the Web Client has been deprecated
Nick Chin, 31 October 2019
The legacy Web Client has been deprecated as of September 2019. What does this mean? Microsoft has set the 1st of October 2020 for when the Web Client will no longer be available. If you are still using the legacy Web Client, you will need to transition to the Unified Interface by this date.Microsof
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How to Invoke Shared Formulas in a Canvas PowerApp
Colin Maitland, 30 October 2019
In this article, I demonstrate how to invoke a shared formula from events and controls in a Canvas PowerApp without the need to duplicate the formula many times.The following image shows a simple calculator created as a Canvas PowerApp. This calculator has various buttons, labels and associated form
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Replicating If Statements, For Loops and Do While Loops in Microsoft Flow
Adam Murchison, 29 October 2019
People who know a little bit about programming may need a good starting point for understanding how Flow works and how they can replicate their programming knowledge in Flow. When first outlining a solution to a problem I break the problem down into pseudocode, a logical set of actions that I then u
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Change in how to Enable Dynamics 365 Unified Interface
Nick Chin, 25 October 2019
The 2019 Wave 2 update has had some changes to the “Enable only the Unified Interface” setting.Paul’s blog describes how to enable the Unified Interface by default.Now with the Wave 2 release; “Enable only the Unified Interface” has been removed from the “System Settings”.This has been moved the Pow
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Facebook Lead Ad to Dynamics 365 via LeadsBridge and Flow
Sean Roque, 24 October 2019
Facebook is one of the largest social media platforms that offers high view rates and precision with the target audience. Combined with Microsoft Dynamics 365, a leading cloud-based business applications platform to store and manage this information, we end up with a powerful combination for enterpr
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Dynamics 365: Solving the Action Invalid Argument error with Flow
Nick Chin, 23 October 2019
Have you ever had the “Invalid Argument” error from an Action before?This can happen when you are retrieving a record with code and it returns a null. If an Action has an EntityReference output, then it must always return data. So, if you encounter this problem, what should you do?If the logic is co
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Improving Microsoft Flow Runtime using Concurrency Control
Satyvir Jasra, 22 October 2019
In Microsoft Flow, one of the most used controls is ‘Apply Each’ which is used to process a list of items. However, if there is a large list of items to process through, the ‘Apply Each’ action will run for a very long time, because only one item can be processed at a time. What if we could process
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Error when Accessing Dashboards in Dynamics 365
Sean Roque, 21 October 2019
There was an instance for one of our clients where a single user was receiving the error message: “App for Outlook is the App Module for Dynamics 365 App for Outlook. This Action is not applicable.” and was unable to access the Dashboards area in Dynamics 365 Unified interface. At first glance you m
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Using Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform to better calculate the ROI on sponsoring events.
Ryan Ingram, 18 October 2019
Attending an annual trade or industry event as an exhibitor or a sponsor used to be a given. The Justification was always warranted – you were there to meet your customers, to meet prospects and push them further along the sales process or if you had to: “we need to be there as all of our competitor
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Quickly create a manually triggered Flow in Dynamics 365
Nick Chin, 17 October 2019
There are multiple ways to create a triggered Flow with Dynamics 365. One way is by browsing to the Flow centre and creating the Flow.If you’re logged into Dynamics 365, Flow be accessed from the top left by clicking the Office 365 app button, then selecting Flow.Select the “Create” tab.Since we are
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Modifying the Queue Command Bar in Dynamics 365
Alfwyn Jordan, 16 October 2019
Recently, as the Dynamics 365 administrator, I was tasked with removing the Assign button from the Queue form command bar. Easy enough, I thought. I’ll just create a solution with the Queue entity, open Ribbon Workbench and hide the button. But no, instead of being able to edit the command bar I rec
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Creating a Form Processor in the Power Platform AI Builder (Part 2)
Isaac Stephens, 15 October 2019
Check Part One to see how to create the model needed to Process a form.Once your model has been created and published you are able to create an App or Flow that utilises it. Microsoft Flow is an extremely powerful way to use the Form Processor because it can automatically take newly submitted forms
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