Power Virtual Agents by Microsoft allows you to easily create chatbots without any code. Whilst creating these, I came across some useful features I’ve listed below that you may not be aware of if you are new to creating them that can save you time and improve your bot.Create Topics from Webpages an
Read the full article hereIn 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
Read the full article hereIn Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series, I showed you how to create a bot and request information from the user. In the last part of this series, I will show you how to take this information and trigger an action to email the Customer Services team.Trigger Action1. Click the + Sign on the Message
Read the full article hereCanvas Apps enable makers to easily design and create custom layouts and themes using the low-code, WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) Canvas App designer. With embedded Canvas Apps, you can bring the power of Canvas Apps to your Dynamics 365 Model-Driven App forms. Canvas Apps are designed to b
Read the full article hereContinuing on from my first blog about Power Virtual Agents, I showed you how to create a bot. In Part 2 of this series, I will show you how to request information from the user using the bot. I will continue to use the bot I created earlier however if you don’t have one, follow my first blog to set
Read the full article hereIn this blog, I will show you how easy it is to create a chatbot with no code using Microsoft Power Virtual Agent. We will cover:1. Creating/Setting up the Environment2. Creating the Bot3. Building your Bot4. Testing your Bot5. Publishing and Sharing your BotCreate the Environment1. Go to https://p
Read the full article hereDoes the “Sign in required” pop-up keep appearing when browsing Power Apps, Power Automate or Power Admin? This is because your browser is blocking third-party cookies.I often use Chrome in Incognito mode, which causes third-party cookies to be blocked by default.Check your Cookie SettingsGo to the
Read the full article hereThere are some situations where you might want to reuse the out of the box entity icons (e.g. Contact) such as the Interactive Experience form related panel:However, they are not readily accessible as web resources that you can set by default.Instead, you can access the .svg file directly by navigat
Read the full article hereOur Dialog Builder app (formerly Alert.js) was recently re-approved for Microsoft AppSource, and with it comes a new PCF Custom Control that allows you to build dialogs right from within the custom control UI, without having to write any custom code.This PCF control is exclusive to the AppSource ver
Read the full article hereI have been playing around with PCF Controls in Dynamics 365 and have some tips for anyone wanting to dive in and give it a go. There are some great resources online which really helped which I have linked below.How to create a PowerApps PCF controlPCF Control GuideWhile following the instructions i
Read the full article hereWith Microsoft’s new AI Builder, it’s very easy to add intelligence into your business applications without writing any code. At the time of writing this, the AI Builder is only available for USA and Europe environments and is currently in Preview. The Business Card Reader component in AI Builder ca
Read the full article hereLicensing has changed yet again. There are two license types that are of use and it depends on how many apps you’ve built. There’s the unlimited plan, and the per app plan. Visit https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/ for more details. The steps to assign licenses is no longer straightforwar
Read the full article hereIn 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
Read the full article hereWhen deploying a Custom Control, I noticed that the Custom Control was not updating from the previous version. I struggled to work out why this wasn’t overwriting the previous version of the Custom Control, so I was removing the dependencies and deleting it, then re-deploying the Custom Control each
Read the full article herePower Automate provides us with a connector that allows for sending Push Notifications to your Canvas Power App. Most of the details can be found here.Here are a few of our findings while implementing this Power Automate functionality.The link above mentions that a known limitation of the Push Notif
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