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Custom Power BI UTC to Local Date/Time with Daylight Saving Time Function
Colin Maitland, 03 December 2019
In a previous article, I demonstrated several approaches for transforming Dynamics 365 UTC Date/Time values to New Zealand (NZ) Local Date/Time and Date values. In this article I demonstrate the structure of the custom Power BI function referred to in that article. This article demonstrates the inte
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Why can't I publish my AI Builder Prediction (Binary Classification) Model?
Ronelle Raath, 02 December 2019
Microsoft AI Builder is a Power Platform capability that puts awesome Artificial Intelligent capabilities at your fingertips.We have four AI models available in the preview release:PredictionForm ProcessingObject DetectionText ClassificationThe preview released only to Environments in the US and Eur
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Running a Microsoft Flow from a Business Process Flow in Dynamics 365
Ronelle Raath, 29 November 2019
Microsoft Flow can be configured to easily automate tasks which use a range of different applications and services. Not only can you connect to Dynamics 365 from Flow to work with records – you can also run Flows from within Business Process Flows in Dynamics 365.Create Flow:In this example I create
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Clarifying Power Apps Push Notifications via Power Automate Flows
Sean Roque, 28 November 2019
Power 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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Dynamics 365 Data Migration - how to keep the original Modified On date
Nick Chin, 27 November 2019
When moving from a legacy system to Dynamics 365, sometimes it’s important to maintain the “Modified On” date for records, such as Activities. The Timeline control displays Notes and Activities in the order that they are modified.Setting the “Modified On” field in a data migration isn’t possible as
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Disable High Density Header Feature in Dynamics 365 Unified Interface
Jordan Hohepa, 26 November 2019
With the recent Wave 2 Release for Dynamics 365 there has been a slight change to how the header works on a Form, which is known as the High Density Header. With this change, users can add more than four fields to a form header while sacrificing the ability to edit the fields without using a dropdow
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Security and Restrictions for Microsoft AI Builder
Ronelle Raath, 25 November 2019
Before we start, what is the AI Builder?In a nutshell, it is a Power Platform capability that puts awesome Artificial Intelligent capabilities at your fingertips.While I’m writing this blog, it is currently available to you in a Preview released only to Environments in the US and Europe regions. Cer
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Error Comparing User Local Date Time Fields with Date Only Format in Dynamics 365
Sean Roque, 22 November 2019
We encountered a situation when comparing Date Time fields in Date Only format in Dynamics. For a particular Calculated Two Options field, the condition is checking whether one Date Time field is greater than the other In situations where the Expiry Date is the same as the End Date, most of the time
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3 Tips for Starting with Power Virtual Agents
Gayan Perera, 20 November 2019
Microsoft recently announced a very neat feature allowing customers to deploy AI-driven virtual agents. You can create and deploy these agents using no-code/low-code WYSIWYG editors!If you want to give it a try, head over to https://powervirtualagents.microsoft.com/en-us/ and sign up for a trial. On
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Configure Power Automate Flows for Easier Deployments
Adam Murchison, 19 November 2019
While creating Power Automate Flows (previously known as Microsoft Flow), I learnt a lot about deploying and constructing them efficiently and effectively. There are many ways to improve your Flow so that it runs better and it’s easier to deploy. This is how I make deployments of my flows easier usi
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Using Microsoft Power BI Report Builder to create Power BI Paginated Reports
Colin Maitland, 18 November 2019
In this article, I briefly describe the steps for creating a Power BI paginated report, connected to a published Power BI Dataset, using the Microsoft Power BI Report Builder.The following image shows the top level of a multi-level paginated report built using the Power BI Report Builder.You can dow
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New Customization Experience in Dynamics 365
Nick Chin, 15 November 2019
You may have noticed a few years ago the Power Apps logo was added to the Dynamics 365 Solution Customization page. This was a sign of things to come.Microsoft has redesigned the way customizations are done in Dynamics 365.You can view the new Customization experience by clicking the “Try New Experi
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Hidden Relationships in Dynamics 365 Advanced Find
Ronelle Raath, 14 November 2019
I recently needed to create a many-to-many relationship between two entities for a project. However, when I wanted to use this entity relationship in a View, I could not find it available in Advanced Find. It was like the relationship between these entities did not exist.I thought that setting the r
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Microsoft Flow will fall under the brand name Microsoft Power Automate
Gayan Perera, 13 November 2019
If you’re playing in the Microsoft Business Applications space you’re probably saying to yourself ‘not again!’ We all know there have been many naming changes, licensing changes, announcements that were recanted etc etc. Hard to keep up…I know!So, a bit of an explanation as to what was announced at
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Dynamics 365 Model Driven App new navigateTo API
Jared Johnson, 12 November 2019
In early October a new method was added to the Xrm.Navigation client api documentation, navigateTo. While we already had the openForm method to open a form with Javascript, we had no way of opening a view the same way. This new method now allows us to do that but is only supported in the Unified Int
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