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    • How to Update Related Date Picker Controls in a Canvas PowerApp

      Colin Maitland, 04 September 2019

      In this article, I demonstrate how to configure two related date picker controls in a Canvas PowerApp so that Date To is updated to Date From, and Date From is updated to Date To, if the User selects a Date From date that is greater than Date To or a Date To date that is less than Date From.The exis

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    • How to Programmatically set Date Picker and Days Controls in a Canvas PowerApp

      Colin Maitland, 03 September 2019

      In this article, I demonstrate how to configure the default values for a Days From and Days To date picker controls and a related Days control in a Canvas PowerApp. I also demonstrate how to programmatically update the Days control to display the number of days between the two selected dates when th

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    • Microsoft Flow New Feature: Copy to My Clipboard

      Satyvir Jasra, 30 August 2019

      One of the long-awaited features ‘Copy to my clipboard’ was made available for Microsoft Flow as part of the July update. Previously, if we had to use the same action multiple times but with slight changes, we needed to add the actions and then configure them individually. Using the copy functionali

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    • Optimise Setting Default Values for Dynamics 365 Lookup Controls in a Canvas PowerApp

      Colin Maitland, 23 August 2019

      In a previous article, I demonstrated how to set the default values for Dynamics 365 Lookup fields in a Canvas PowerApp. The example used was a Leave Requests app that requires the selection of Requester and Manager.The following image shows the formula used for setting the default Requester to the

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    • How to Set the Default Value for a Dynamics 365 OptionSet Control in a Canvas PowerApp

      Colin Maitland, 22 August 2019

      In this article, I demonstrate how easy it is to set the default value for a ComboBox control associated with a Dynamics 365 Option Set field in a Canvas PowerApp. The approach demonstrated eliminates the need to change the bound ComboBox control to an unbound DropDown control. Because of this, it a

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    • How to set the Default Value for a Dynamics 365 Lookup Control in a Canvas PowerApp

      Colin Maitland, 20 August 2019

      In this article, I demonstrate how easy it is to set the default value for a ComboBox control associated with a Dynamics 365 Lookup field in a Canvas PowerApp.The demonstration application is a sample ‘Leave Requests’ Canvas PowerApp. The app uses the Common Data Service (CDS) connector to access a

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    • Prevent Cases from Closing on Condition in Dynamics 365

      Sean Roque, 19 August 2019

      Users can close cases by clicking the Resolve Case button provided in the ribbon. In situations where you want to aid your Users by helping them make sure they process data correctly; this method comes in handy. Not only can this make their work easier, it also avoids incorrect handling of cases, an

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    • Evaluating Members in Marketing Lists using Advanced Find in Dynamics 365

      Megha Kainth, 16 August 2019

      There are times when you want to add or remove members in your Marketing List. In Dynamics 365 Unified Interface version 9.0, you can use the Manage Members functionality to evaluate members. In this blog, I will show you how you can do this.  Go to Marketing List and Open the record that you

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    • How do you keep ahead of the game with the Power Platform?

      Gayan Perera, 14 August 2019

      I was recently asked “How do you keep ahead of the game with all of this new tech?” Well, the simple answer is that it’s in our DNA as a company. Since #LearnItAll is finally starting to hit home to many in the industry. This is how I responded: Going right back to the inception of Magnetism, there

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    • A Quick Guide on using DateTime in Microsoft Flow

      Adam Murchison, 08 August 2019

      Microsoft Flow has many ways to set a DateTime and there are often strict requirements on how this is formatted for your purposes. Firstly, the most important function to know within Microsoft Flow to do with DateTime is utcNow(). We can do this by going to the ‘Expression’ tab when adding data to a

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    • Creating a new PowerApps Portal integrated with Dynamics 365

      Jordan Hohepa, 02 August 2019

      Over the past few months Microsoft have talked about a new App Type in PowerApps which is called the PowerApps Portal. This will allow organizations to create a website, similar to the currently available Dynamics 365 Portal, which will allow External Users to interact with the organizations systems

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    • A Quick Summary of the October 2019 Power Platform Licensing Changes

      Gayan Perera, 01 August 2019

      Microsoft announced a number of licensing changes to the Power Platform during Inspire 2019. These changes will take affect on the 1st of October 2019. Existing customers will be able to transition while the old Power Platform licensing plans are being grandfathered and retired. I won’t be able to o

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    • How to Display More Than One Entity List on a Power Platform Portal

      Satyvir Jasra, 29 July 2019

      With Power Platform Portals we can provide users a personalized experience from a website. We can integrate Portals with Dynamics 365 and show the data to the Portal users without them having to sign into Dynamics 365. For example, we can show the data in Dynamics 365 views using ‘Entity Lists’ on

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    • Binding to Address Fields in a PCF Control

      Jared Johnson, 04 July 2019

      Recently I was working on a custom control where I wanted it to have outputs that were bound to the address fields on a contact or account. However even though I had the type set to SingleLine.Text, none of the address fields appeared in the list of fields when selecting which field to bind to. Acco

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    • Power Platform Licensing

      John Eccles, 18 June 2019

      Power Platform unlocks the potential of Dynamics 365 and Office 365. It opens the door for non-software developer users within organisations to manage data and electronic forms, automate business processes and enable mobility. An organisation needs licensing to use Power Platform. In this blog, I wa

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