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Create a Chatbot without any code using Microsoft's Power Virtual Agents
Harshani Perera, 12 October 2020
In 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
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Dynamics 365 Sign in required pop-up
Nick Chin, 08 October 2020
Does 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
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How to Retrieve Out of the Box Entity Icons in Dynamics 365
Sean Roque, 03 August 2020
There 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
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New Dialog Builder PCF Custom Control for Dynamics 365 AppSource
Paul Nieuwelaar, 20 July 2020
Our 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
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Tips for building your first PCF Control
Zoe Sands, 28 May 2020
I 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
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Easily Create a Business Card Scanner using Microsoft Power Apps and Save to SharePoint
Harshani Perera, 01 April 2020
With 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
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Assigning Power Apps per App Plan Licenses to Users in your Organisation
Alfwyn Jordan, 18 February 2020
Licensing 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
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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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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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Counting Objects in an Image with an Object Recognition Power App
Harshani Perera, 08 November 2019
Following on from my blog about Object Recognition using the Microsoft Power Apps AI Builder, we created an AI Model to detect bananas.In this blog, we will create an App using a similar Model so that you can easily use it to detect objects. The following steps will show you how to do this.Step 1: L
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How to Call a Child Flow from a Parent Flow
Satyvir Jasra, 06 November 2019
As part of the October release, Microsoft released quite a lot of new features for Microsoft Flow (now part of Microsoft Power Automate) which makes development easier and faster for Users. One of those cool new features is the addition of ‘Run a Child Flow’, which means we can call a child Flow fro
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How to Invoke Shared Formulas in a Canvas PowerApp
Colin Maitland, 30 October 2019
In this article, I demonstrate how to invoke a shared formula from events and controls in a Canvas PowerApp without the need to duplicate the formula many times.The following image shows a simple calculator created as a Canvas PowerApp. This calculator has various buttons, labels and associated form
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How to Highlight the Selected Record in a Canvas PowerApp Gallery
Colin Maitland, 11 October 2019
In this article, I demonstrate how to highlight the selected record in a Canvas PowerApp Gallery.The following image shows a Gallery displaying Contact records on the right and a related Detail Form showing the currently selected Contact on the left.It is desired that the currently selected Contact
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New uses-feature manifest element in PowerApps Component Framework Controls
Jared Johnson, 27 September 2019
Earlier this month, a previously built PCF control that utilised WebAPI to retrieve records stopped working with the following error: “Feature 'WebAPI.retrieveMultipleRecords' is required to be specified in the <uses-feature> section in ControlManifest.xml before use.”Checking the PowerApps co
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