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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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Using the Condition Builder to Compare Multiple Values in Microsoft Flow
Sean Roque, 07 June 2019
The basic condition builder in a Microsoft Flow condition card is sufficient for building simple two-variable comparisons. However previously when we came across the need to create a condition that would compare multiple values, or any sort of complex comparisons, we would inevitably resort to ‘Edi
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Logging a Power Platform ticket with Microsoft
Alfwyn Jordan, 06 June 2019
As a Dynamics 365 administrator, you may be familiar with requesting support from Microsoft through the Office 365 admin site as documented in an earlier blog post but now we can submit support requests through the Power Platform Admin Center. You can access the portal at https://admin.powerplatform
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Dynamics 365 CRM v9 is Slow!
Gayan Perera, 10 May 2019
Now that I've got your attention, the truth: Dynamics 365 CRM v9 is actually very quick! The Power Platform team has done an amazing job getting screens to load within a couple of seconds. This of course is the case for the majority of people using the platform. However, sometimes, you’ll hear comme
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PowerApps -- Passing Null Values to Entities in CDS
Alfwyn Jordan, 26 April 2019
In the current version of PowerApps, passing null to a text field is fairly easy as you can use the function Blank(). As the document states, this only works for data sources that support null values. CDS as a data source does not currently allow this. To get around this, we need to enable an experi
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Microsoft Power Platform is not just for the big guns
Gayan Perera, 25 April 2019
The Microsoft Power Platform is an amazing set of tools that can help businesses serve their customers smarter, faster and better. However, most of the marketing and messaging around the Power Platform is geared toward big companies. Almost all the case studies are from companies such as Heathrow Ai
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