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Formatting Numbers in Power Automate Flow
Isaac Stephens, 31 January 2020
Power Automate has just released the new Format Number action, which allows you to format a number from one of the out of the box options, or by your own custom number format. This can be useful, as you are able to display numbers in a formatted way while maintaining the base value behind it for gre
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Gotchas while Triggering Power Automate Flow from a Power Virtual Agent
Ronelle Raath, 28 January 2020
Microsoft launched Power Virtual Agents, a splendid new feature that enables you to create and deploy a resource, that can perform processes and engagement with your Users, all via a user-friendly no-code/low-code WYSIWYG editor!You can create an automated personalised conversation with your users t
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How to optimize Power Virtual Agent Conversations
Ronelle Raath, 24 January 2020
Power Virtual Agents are AI driven virtual agents that enables you to create an deploy a resource, that can perform processes and engagement with your Users, all via a user-friendly no-code/low-code WYSIWYG editor. Essentially this means you can have a personalized, friendly, interactive experience
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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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Back up Dynamics 365 with the Power Platform Admin Center
Nick Chin, 22 January 2020
Microsoft recently released Backup & Restore functionality to the Power Platform Admin center and changed this to the default. This is quite different, so I will give you an overview. If you open the “Backup & Restore” tab in the classic Dynamics 365 Admin Center You will now get this pop-up
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Adding a Power Automate Flow into a Power Platform Solution
Adam Murchison, 17 January 2020
Microsoft’s Power Automate platform is improving and there are always better ways to do tasks, with this in mind I’ve written this blog to facilitate your processes involved with Power Automate. Why add a Power Automate Flow into a solution?You should add the Power Automate Flow into a solution so t
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Improve Navigation when Creating Topics for Dynamics 365 Power Virtual Agents
Ronelle Raath, 08 January 2020
Power Virtual Agents are AI driven virtual agents that enables you to create an deploy a resource, that can perform processes and engagement with your Users, all via a user-friendly no-code/low-code WYSIWYG editor.To guide your Bot’s conversation with Users you use Topics. In this Blog I will highli
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Customizing the Opportunity Close Window in Dynamics 365
Nick Chin, 20 December 2019
With the general release of the Wave 2 update at the start of October 2019, the ability to customize the Close Opportunity form is now available! In this blog I will go through enabling this ability as well as giving an example of adding custom fields.How do you customize the Opportunity Close form?
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Working with Queue Items and On Demand Workflows in Dynamics 365
Zoe Sands, 18 December 2019
While working with Queues and Queue Items in Dynamics 365 for a client I came across a data issue that required a bulk data update on Queue Items. As the nature of my data update could be handled by an On Demand Workflow, naturally this is what I created.When I tried to run the workflow using Advanc
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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 Correctly Deploy a Power Apps Component Framework Custom Control
Adam Murchison, 11 December 2019
When 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
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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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Creating a Data Source within Customer Insights
Ronelle Raath, 09 December 2019
With the new Customer Insights feature released by Microsoft in July 2019, you now have the ability to combine all your Customer data stored and managed across the whole business into one unified Customer view. This means that Contact information stored in Dynamics 365, as well as their related paym
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Creating a Prediction (Binary Classification) Model with the AI Builder
Ronelle Raath, 06 December 2019
Recently, Microsoft have released new Artificial Intelligent functionality, which can easily be added to Power Apps and Microsoft Flow (now called Power Automate). At the time of writing this blog there are four AI Models, Form Processing, Object Detection, Prediction and Text Classification. This b
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Scheduling Dynamics 365 Unified Interface Upgrade in the Transition Portal
Jared Johnson, 04 December 2019
With the Web Client scheduled to be removed entirely on the 1st October 2020, Microsoft are automatically transitioning environments to the Unified interface before this date, you may be surprised to see how early they have scheduled the transition if you were expecting to have until October!The Tra
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