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Canvas Apps - Formatted Number Text Input and Display Demonstration
Colin Maitland, 19 April 2021
In this video blog, I will explain some limitations of using a Text Input control in a Canvas App to enter and display numbers. I will then demonstrate how a Label, Text Input and Timer control may be configured and used together to allow the data entry and display of formatted numeric values in a C
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 8
Colin Maitland, 02 March 2021
In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom Power BI embedded Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.In this final
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 7
Colin Maitland, 22 February 2021
In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom Power BI embedded Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.In this penul
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 6
Colin Maitland, 16 February 2021
In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom Power BI embedded Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.The two most
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 5
Colin Maitland, 22 January 2021
In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.In this article I will describe
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 4
Colin Maitland, 16 December 2020
In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.In a previous article I introdu
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 3
Colin Maitland, 30 November 2020
In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.In this article I will introduc
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 2
Colin Maitland, 26 November 2020
In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.In this article I will demonstr
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Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI
Colin Maitland, 08 November 2020
In this article, I will introduce a demonstration of a custom Power Apps Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.It is possible to create and update
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The Tech Powering Our Sales
Gayan Perera, 13 May 2020
Spoiler alert – We use the Microsoft Power Platform to help us with our sales!I must confess, we don’t have a sales team. We’re a bunch of businesspeople with a very good understanding of technology. We use that as our base to help our clients realise their potential through smart use of tech. The r
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A Tale of Two Countries - Charting Covid-19 Growth Rates with Power BI
Colin Maitland, 23 April 2020
Power BI is a great tool for analysing information. In this article, I demonstrate some charting approaches using some standard Power BI charts. The three examples of chart-sets in this article demonstrate my lay persons analysis of a ‘Tale of Two Countries’; i.e. comparison of the reported Covid-19
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How to Configure Age Groupings in Power BI
Nick Chin, 20 April 2020
When designing reports in Power BI, you need to be aware of situations where your visualizations may be hard to read due to the large range of data you have available. For example, the pie chart below shows information segmented by different ages, but each slice of the pie is very small and is diffi
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How a Customized Theme in Microsoft Power BI can Improve your Reports
Ronelle Raath, 17 April 2020
With Microsoft Power BI you can easily achieve effective visual reports and dashboards from data captured within your business.However, to ensure you are putting together decent visuals you need to consider some key elements like keeping things simple, clear and concise as well as intuitive. You wou
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Looking into the Future with Microsoft Power BI's Forecasting Feature
Ronelle Raath, 06 April 2020
Data is the foundation to any business and one of its most valuable assets. Knowing and understanding your data well can help improve your business through management and growth. Now with Microsoft Power BI you can even predict the future using its awesome forecasting feature! Knowing the future can
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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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