Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. Today’s blog is on how to disable the data import feature for a user in model-driven apps/ Dynamics 365 apps. Using the data import feature, users can create/ update records in model driven apps, provided they have create, write permission on those tables. However sometimes you may not …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. I am back with another blog on Power App and today it’s about model-driven app and security role. When you develop a model-driven app and publish it, users sometime report they are not able to access the model-driven app. In this blog I will discuss on the troubleshooting …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss on a really cool feature that is in preview and certainly going to be liked by users a lot. If you are wondering what I am talking about, it’s the new Fluent UI design of Model-driven apps. Model-driven apps are great with …
Fluent UI design, the new look and feel of model-driven apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss on how to retrieve emails from shared mailbox in Exchange in canvas apps. Power Platform has inbuilt connector for Office 365 Outlook that can be used to in Canvas apps and Power Automate to perform operations with Outlook. For this demo, I …
How to read emails from shared mailbox in Exchange in PowerApps Canvas apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In this blog I will show how you can create a trial onmicrosoft.com account and subscribe to Power Apps. I am recently into lot of Power Apps training sessions and the frequent question I get from the participants is – How do I subscribe for trial Power Apps …
How to create a Power Apps trial with onmicrosoft.com account Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog, I will show on how you can add comment to a SharePoint list item using Power Automate. Comments are a great feature to add information for SharePoint list item. You can put in additional information for each list item and also tag users. Once you …
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Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show how you can display a hyperlink column as image/ icon in Power report table. Let’s get started. Below is a table in Power BI report where I am displaying couple of columns. One is Machine Name and the other Photo. As you …
How to display a URL as Image in Power BI report table Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I am going to discuss about a new feature that will help you to create expressions based on your desired output. Power Platform is low code – no code, a platform for citizen developers. Make no mistake about it. But at the same time, let’s …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss about a common error you may encounter while connecting to SharePoint or OneDrive using Graph API and how to resolve the same. When using Graph API, you may encounter the below error. Pic courtesy: Microsoft Learn. The error happen precisely because of …
{Solved} Access Token validation error. Invalid Audience – Graph API Error Read More »
Wishing all my readers a very happy and prosperous new year. This is my first blog for this year and in this blog I will show how you can configure relative date/ time filters in Power BI report. Did you ever had the requirement to configure the following filters based on date column. If this …
How to configure Relative time filter in Power BI Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show how you can embed a Power BI report in SharePoint. Many a times we have a requirement to embed a Power BI report on SharePoint page. For this we choose the Power BI webpart available in SharePoint. In the Power BI webpart, …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show you how you can disable sharing of apps in your Power Platform environment. The problem of sharing apps is more prominent with Default environments. As makers continue to build apps in the default environment and start sharing the apps, it soon becomes …
How to prevent sharing of apps in Power Platform environment Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss the issue with Card visualizations in Power BI. Card visualizations are great. They allow you to highlight the single most important pieces of information in a report and it look’s great too. However there is a small issue with the cards. As …
How to filter a table on click of Card in Power BI Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show how you can add outlook in teams. I have been working recently in teams integration and what I find is users spending most of the time in their Teams. However if they need to manage their emails, they need to fall back …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss on how we can retrieve the contents of DataVerse image column and send it as an attachment in an email. We are going to use Power Automate for this. Power Automate DataVerse connector has actions to upload and download image and file …
How to retrieve content of Image column in DataVerse and send it as an email attachment Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss about a preview feature that allow you to delete users from Dynamics 365/ Power platform environments. Please note that this is a preview feature. If you have been working from the good old days of Dynamics 365, you will be aware that …
How to delete users from Dynamics 365/ Power Platform Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog, I will show how you can configure the address finder control in canvas apps. So let’s get started with it. Navigate to Power Platform admin center and open your environment. Go to Settings and look for a Features under Product you will find something called …
Configure Address Finder control in Power Apps Canvas apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss how to get the value of Environment variables of DataVerse in Dynamics 365/ Model Driven apps. I have the following environment variable in my environment and I want to retrieve the value of it in my form script code. To understand how …
How to get value of Environment variable in Model driven apps/ Dynamics 365 javascript Read More »
CRM tips from the vault – A series which I have started on request of my blog readers who are quite new to Dynamics 365 and Model Driven apps. In this series I will mostly cover the topics which are quite simple, used in almost every project implementations and more importantly have withstood the test of …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog, I will show you how to show/ hide the ribbon bar or command bar on a record form dynamically, in Dynamics 365/ Model Driven apps. This is not a very common requirement but here I was having this requirement. The requirement was to hide the …
How to hide command bar/ ribbon bar of a form in Model driven apps/ Dynamics 365 Read More »
Hello there and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss about the error – “Key needs to be greater than 0” error with ilmerge and how to get around that. I had a class library project where I was referencing Microsoft Graph SDK packages to interact with SharePoint. And before I deploying …
{Solved} Key needs to be greater than 0 – Issue with ilmerge Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will share a quick tip on how to bind a multiselect choice field of DataVerse in a canvas app combobox. For this demo I have created a table in Dataverse – Report which has a multi-select choice column Category. Below are the choices. I …
How to bind a Multiselect choice of DataVerse to a combobox in Canvas apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss on how to display all contacts whose birthday falls in the current month. While this blog focus on only finding birthdays in the current month, you can use similar techniques to accomplish the following requirements. and in-fact many other similar requirement on …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I shall discuss on how you can cancel pending approvals in Power Automate flow. If you have been working on Power Automate for sometime now, you must have used the Approvals in Power Automate flow. However when using approvals, lot of time you will end …
How to cancel all pending approvals in Power Automate flow Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show how you can set expiry time for your approval flows in Power Automate. If you have worked with Power Automate, you have most likely used Approval flows. What if there is a requirement to set a time limit or expiry period for …
How to set expiry/ timeout for Approval flows in Power Automate Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss an interesting way to cancel all running instances of a Power Automate flow in Bulk using Power Shell. So let’s get started. Here is my Power Automate flow which currently have few running instances. My intention is to cancel all the running …
How to cancel all running instances of Power Automate flow using PowerShell Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss on how to resolve an error I faced recently when creating a PowerApps component framework (PCF) control in visual studio code. The blog focus on Power Apps Component framework (PCF) control development but the solution shall work for anyone receiving the ESLint …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss about on how to create hyperlinks with dynamic URL while sending an email in Power Automate. Let’s first understand the problem statement. Below is an instant flow I created for this demo. I have created a variable varHyperLink with has the value …
How to create hyperlink with dynamic URL in Power Automate emails. Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show on how to set a lookup field value in Dynamics 365/ Model Driven apps using javascript. Lookups in Dynamics 365 model driven apps are essentially arrays. Each array object should have the following three properties. In my example I want to set …
How to set a lookup value in Dynamics 365/ Model Driven apps using javascript Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss a peculiar behavior with the CountRows function. Below is an example where I am using the CountRows function to show the total number of customers. Quite strangely, the function returns zero as you can see from the below screenshot. This is quite …
CountRows function returning zero for DataVerse tables – Power Apps Canvas apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog we will discuss on how to calculate the difference between two dates in Power Automate. Sometime back I have written a blog which show how to substract two date time objects and then calculate the difference. Infact most of the blogs available on this topic …
How to Calculate difference between two dates in Power Automate Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will share a tip on how to get rid of ‘Password is incorrect’ error when you try to import a certificate .pfx/ .pkcs12 file in your windows server. So here goes the problem statement. I had a .pfx file which I created using OpenSSL. …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I show a simple technique on how to reverse a string in Power Automate. I have the following string – “1234567890“. I want to reverse the string in Power Automate. If you are looking to do the same thing in Power Apps, you can check …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss show how you can create an array from string in Power Automate. Suppose I have the string Microsoft. I want to create an array out of the string, basically to return an array – [“M”, “i”, “c”, “r”, “o”, “s”, “o”, “f”, …
How to create an array of characters from a string in Power Automate Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss on a rather peculiar issue faced when you try to export a Power Automate flow. Traditionally whenever I would want to export a Power Automate flow, I shall select the flow and then choose the Package (.zip) option. However lately I observed …
{Solved} Unable to export Power Automate Flow as package (.zip) Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog, I will show you on how to get the timezone details of a user from DataVerse in a Power Automate flow. Before we get started with the Power Automate flow, it’s important to understand the tables in DataVerse which we will use in the Power …
How to retrieve a user’s timezone from DataVerse in a Power Automate flow Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss on how to display a lookup column of DataVerse as a Dropdown in Power Apps canvas apps. Account has a contact lookup field – Primary Contact. The field is usually required to store the primary contact for a customer. For our demo, …
How to display DataVerse Lookup as Dropdown in canvas apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show you on how to reverse an array/ collection in canvas apps. Let’s get started. I have collection of fruits which I will reverse Most of the programming languages have in-built function to reverse an array. Unfortunately, Power Apps does not have an …
How to reverse an Array/ collection in Power Apps Canvas apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show you on how to use configuration files in .NET Core console application. For .NET framework applications we always use the app.config to store our configuration values for the application. In .NET Core, instead of App.Config file, we need to use appsettings.json file. …
How to use app.config or configuration files in .NET Core Console Application Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss on how find index of specific phrase inside a string in canvas apps. Canvas apps have the Index function which is frequently confused to work with strings. The Index function is used to find a specific item by index position from a …
How to find Index of string in Power Apps canvas apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show how to configure Password Reset policy with Azure AD B2C authentication in Power Apps portals/ power pages. 4 years back, I wrote a post how to configure Azure AD B2C authentication with portals. All the configurations described in the post still hold …
Hello there and welcome to my blog. Today’s blog is going to be a bit different from my usual blogs on Power Platform and Dynamics 365. In today’s blog I will discuss about the error – Could not create ssl/tls secure channel I faced while connecting to a REST API using certificate and how I …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss a very simple but useful feature which has been released lately. When we browse records in our Model Driven apps or Dynamics 365 Apps, we frequently need to share the URL of the record to access it directly. As easy as it …
Share link of a record in Model Driven apps/ Dynamics 365 Apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss on how to show related records in a subgrid in Power Apps canvas apps. For this demo, I will take the example of Accounts and Contacts table of DataVerse. Accounts and Contacts are in 1:N relationship where an account can have multiple …
Show related records in a subgrid – Power Apps Canvas Apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss how to replace all instances of word inside a string. I will demonstrate for both case sensitive and case insensitive scenarios. Power Apps has the Substitute function to replace all instances of word inside a text. For this blog, I will use …
Replace all instances of text , case insensitive, in Power Apps canvas apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. I am back with another blog on canvas apps and today I will discuss on how to get the current environment name in Power Apps canvas apps. While we will focus on Canvas apps, the article shall help you explore the below scenarios as well. As of the …
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Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss about a very simple requirement on how to extract email address from string in Power Automate. Requirements like this usually are solved using regular expressions. Canvas apps have support for regular expressions. There are couple of functions in Power Apps like Match …
How to extract email address form string in Power Apps canvas apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog we will discuss on how to check if the owner of a dataverse record is a User or Team in Canvas apps. If you have worked with DataVerse, you know that you can set thee Owner of record either to a team or a user. …
Check if Owner of a DataVerse record is User or Team in Power Apps canvas apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. Today’s blog is going to be bit different from my usual blogs on Power Apps and SharePoint. In this blog I will discuss on how to connect to SharePoint Search API using POSTMAN At the end of the article you will also learn the following topics. So let’s …
How to connect to SharePoint search API using certificate authentication Read More »
Please follow the below code to generate the X509 certificate using openSSL The first step is to generate the certificate with the private key. For this open your Open SSL command prompt and type in the below command You will be prompted to enter few details related to the certificate as shown in the screenshot …
Create a X509 certificate and .pfx (p12) file using OpenSSL Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. I today’s blog I will discuss on how you can introduce timeout/ wait/ delay for your actions in Power Apps canvas apps. Let’s take an example scenario to understand when you may need this feature. I have a very simple form to create a contact and once the …
How to introduce Delay or Wait in actions in Power apps canvas apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss about a very interesting topic and something which is required for almost all Power Apps projects. Suppose you have a Gallery which display a list of records. And it may take a while while the data is fetched and loaded in the …
Show Loading spinner when a Gallery is loading in Power apps canvas apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show you on how you can connect to an excel file stored in SharePoint document library from Power BI Desktop. If you look this requirement, it seems really simple. Connecting to an excel file is not something we usually consider as a challenge. …
How to connect to excel file stored in SharePoint document library from Power BI Desktop Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. I am back with another blog on SharePoint and Power Automate flow. This post is a continuation of my previous post where I went through in detail on how to clear the value of image column of SharePoint through a Power Automate flow. We also saw how we …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. Today’s blog will be on Power BI and I will discuss on the issues while connecting Power BI Desktop to Oracle data source. There is a fairly good documentation out here from Microsoft on how to connect to Oracle from Power BI. Then why this blog? Because even …
Troubleshooting issues while connecting to Oracle database from Power BI Desktop Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss about a new requirement which is quite common but the solution to it is not straightforward as expected. The requirement is pretty simple. I have a SharePoint List for my Report Inventory which has a Description column. The description is an Out …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss about a Power app feature to make phone calls directly from your canvas app. I have a simple Contact list gallery as show in the below screenshot. The idea is to make a phone call directly when clicked on the Phone icon …
How to make a phone call directly from your Power Apps canvas app Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. I am back with another blog on Power Apps. In today’s blog I will discuss on how to automatically adjust the height of text input control in Power Apps depending on content. Let’s understand the requirement first. I have a text input control and I have changed the …
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Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. I am back with another blog on Power Apps and this blog is going to be short and sweet. In today’s blog I will discuss on how to convert Unix (epoch) time to DateTime and vice versa in Power Apps canvas apps. First of all we need to …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss about a very interesting topic related to Image column type in SharePoint List. Sometime back, Microsoft introduced Image column type for SharePoint list. It is indeed a great feature as prior to that if you have a list of products and you …
Bulk update Image column of SharePoint list – using Power Automate – Part 1 Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. Today I will discuss about a very common requirement I come across in most of my projects. The requirement is to create a modal dialog (popup) in Canvas apps. As of the time of writing this blog, there is no modal dialog control in canvas apps. If you …
How to create a modal dialog in Power Apps Canvas apps Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. Today I will discuss about the new and improved expression editor in Power Automate. Before you read further, a quick word of caution – This is an experimental feature and should not be tried on production instances. Navigate to your Power Automate flow window. Did I tell you …
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss about a frequently discussed topic – The capability to change the owner for Power Automate flows. For a very long time, this was not possible. And as hard it is to believe, the only resort was to change the owner through legacy …
How to change the owner of Power Automate flow from flow interface Read More »
Welcome to my blog readers. Today’s blog is on SharePoint and in today’s blog I will discuss a requirement which is quite common. But surprisingly there is hardly any solution to meet the requirement. So much hype about the requirement. What it is? The requirement is to create/ filter a SharePoint List view by Hyperlink …
How to filter a SharePoint list view by Hyperlink column in SharePoint online Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss on how to create a Hyperlink column in SharePoint to store more than 255 characters. SharePoint list has a hyperlink column and more often than not it serves your purpose. But the problem arise when the URL is more than 255 characters. …
How to create a SharePoint Hyperlink (URL) column with more than 255 characters Read More »
Welcome to my blog. I am back with another blog on Power Apps and today I am going to talk about a recently launched feature – “Named formulas“. What is this feature all about? If you look at the documentation of named formulas, your first impression may be – “Is it a new way of …
Welcome to my blog. This one is going to be a real short one and a useful one it. In this blog I will discuss on how to escape a double quotes (“) from a string in canvas apps. Let’s assume we want to set the following string to the Text of label control Let’s …
How to escape Double quotes (“) in Power apps canvas apps Read More »
Welcome to my blog. Before I go ahead, this is still an experimental feature and is not available in GA. Having said that, I am pretty sure a feature of this value and importance and something which Power Apps was missing for a long time, will certainly make it GA. Quite sometime back, Microsoft introduced …
How to pares JSON in Power Apps? The much awaited ParseJSON function is finally here. Read More »
Hello and welcome to my blog. In this blog I will discuss rather simple but a very common requirement. How to show clear button for you text input controls? Especially when you are building search text boxes. The first option is available out of the box. And trust me, many miss this property which is …
Welcome to all my blog readers. Today’s topic is rather very simple. And especially so when Power Apps has been around for quite a few years now. Today we are going to do understand how to work with strings in canvas apps and what are the functions available in canvas apps for the same. If …
Welcome to all my blog readers. I am back with another blog on PowerApps. Today I will discuss on how to use the AddColumns function of Power Apps with lookup fields in SharePoint. If you are looking to query parent table data from Lookup columns, you will also find this blog useful. For this demo …
How to use AddColumns with Lookup fields of SharePoint in Power Apps Read More »
Welcome to all my blog readers. I am back with another blog on Power Apps; this time, it’s on Power Apps portals. Today I will discuss a very interesting requirement I came across. It’s about on how to dynamically set the value of a choices multi-select field in Power Apps portals. Support for choices multi-select …
How to dynamically set value of Choices multi-select field in Power Apps portals Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. Today I am going to discuss about a recently release topic. In fact it’s in preview stage but I am pretty sure this cool stuff is certainly going to be in General Availability soon. Calculated columns is there with Dynamics 365 and now DataVerse for quite some time …
Hello everyone. Welcome back to my blog. Today I will discuss about a common problem faced while creating a Service level agreement (SLA) in Dynamics 365 Customer service. If you are new to Dynamics 365 Customer service module or new to the unified interface, you may face this too. Let’s say I want to create …
No Entities to select when creating SLA in Dynamics 365 Customer Service Read More »
This blog will be a quick tip on how to add existing controls to a containers in Canvas apps. In the screenshot below, I have a Vertical container containing 3 buttons and three text input controls outside the container. I want to move the text input controls inside the container. If I check for options …
How to add existing controls and groups to a container control in Power Apps canvas apps Read More »
I am back with another blog on Power Apps. In today’s blog I will discuss on how you can align controls inside a vertical container in PowerApps. I will concentrate my discussion on how to space out the controls inside the container and set margins for controls. Let’s start with a very simple example here. …
I am back with another blog on Power Apps. In this blog I am going to discuss about a simple functionality – enabling spell check in Text input controls. Let’s get started. Power Apps has an inbuilt property to enable spell checker on Text Input controls. Below is the Text Input control with EnableSpellCheck set …
Enable spell check for text input controls in Power Apps Read More »
Welcome to all my readers. I am back with another blog on PowerApps. In this blog I am going to discuss about a new feature. PowerApps has recently launched the support for images (image column) from SharePoint lists. If you have an Image column in SharePoint list and you want to display that in PowerApps, …
PowerApps now allow you to display SharePoint List images in four sizes. Check this out! Read More »
Welcome to all my blog readers. Today’s topic will be a bit longer than my usual blogs. I will talk about a new feature introduced with Power Platform 2022 Release wave 1. It’s a feature you have been awaiting for especially if you are a Power Platform/ Dynamics 365 Developer. Today I am will discuss …
Welcome to all my blog readers. I am back with another blog on Power Apps. In today’s topic, I am going to discuss about a very simple requirement – How to select a control in specific gallery control row? For this blog, let’s take a very simple requirement. I have Gallery which shows the list …
How to select a control in a specific row of gallery- power apps canvas apps Read More »
Welcome back to all my blog readers. In today’s blog I am going to share with you my recent experience while working with Power Automate flows. I have a model driven app which has a list of contacts for each account. I need a Power Automate flow which should run when a contact record is …
When a record is selected – Dataverse trigger flow not showing Read More »
Welcome back to all of my blog readers. I am back with another blog on Power Apps. In today’s blog I am going to discuss about a very simple requirement – “How to check if a user is a part of Office365 group?”. So let’s get started. First and foremost, the Office 365 Group related …
How to check if a user is part of Office365Group in Power Apps canvas apps Read More »
A warm welcome to all my blog readers. I am back with another blog on Power Automate. And today I am going to show you on how to embed an image in email body when we send an email using Power Automate. For this demo I will use an image stored in OneDrive for Business. …
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Welcome to all of my readers. I am back with another blog on Power Automate. In today’s blog, I will walk you through on how to get the content of image column of a SharePoint list in Power Automate So let’s get started. I have a SharePoint List with an Image column. I create a …
How to get contents of an image column of SharePoint in Power Automate Read More »
Welcome to all of my readers. I am back with another blog on Power Automate. This blog is rather simple and one of the most common requirements we may come across in our day to day work. How do I add or subtract weeks/ months/ years from a timestamp? We have the popular addHours, addMinutes, …
How add or subtract weeks, months or years from a date in Power automate. Read More »
Greeting to all of my blog readers. I am back again with another blog on Power Automate. The feature I am going to talk about today is related to dataverse connector and how can configure the dataverse connector in your Power automate flow to run under triggering user. Honestly I was not aware that it’s …
Welcome to all my blog readers. Today’s blog post is rather interesting. A look at the title of the blog and you might be wondering – “What can be new here? Isn’t it the simplest of the functionalities to implement?”. Can’t deny that it is indeed simple. But sometimes the simplest of things can be …
string comparison not working in Power Automate? know when it can fail. Read More »
Welcome to all my readers. I am back with another blog on Power Apps portals. And this time also, it’s one of those nice little personalization experiences that you can expose to end users. Today I am going to discuss on how to allow portal users to upload their profile pictures. For that we first …
How to allow portal users to upload profile image in Power Apps portals Read More »
It’s been sometime that I have written a blog on portals. However came across this requirement and thought of posting it for my readers. This blog focus on couple of topics. Configure session timeout in Power Apps portals. Redirect to the SignIn page or to any custom page of your choice post session timeout. If …
How to redirect user to Login Page after session timeout in Power Apps portals Read More »
Welcome to my blog. Today’s blog topic is going to be a little different from my regular topics which are usually on Power apps and Dynamics 365. My blog today is about an error I faced from my SharePoint framework extensions controls (SPFx). Quite new to SPFx development but I am learning something new and …
Welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss a simple requirement on how to send notifications across apps in canvas app. Did you ever had the following requirements? Send notification to a user from an app. Open a canvas app when a user press on the push notification. Pass data across canvas apps …
How to send notifications across apps in Power Apps Canvas apps Read More »
Welcome to my blog. In today’s blog i am going to discuss on the different options to generate random numbers in Power Apps canvas apps. Many a times in our development, we need to generate uniqueness – for example auto-generated unique number, unique control names etc. What better way than to use the traditional Rand() …
Generate Random numbers within a range in Power Apps Canvas apps Read More »
Welcome back to my blog. I am back with another blog on Power Apps and this time it’s about a very common requirement. How to get the first and the last date of current month in Power Apps? Isn’t it too simple a requirement? It is indeed and something which you might come across as …
How to get first and last date of current month in Power Apps Canvas apps Read More »
Welcome to my blog and today I am going to share another tip that may help while you are working with Power Apps. This one is fresh out of experience from a project. We were developing a new Canvas app and all one of the developers informed me that they are not able to find …
OnStart property of the App not available in Power Apps canvas apps Read More »
Welcome to my blog and here I am back with another blog on Power Apps. Today I am going to write about a fairly new feature, a feature awaited from a pretty long time. Did you ever had the following requirements in Canvas apps? Get an array item at a particular index Get an item …
How to get an item from an array, collection or table by index in Power Apps canvas app Read More »
Looking at the topic of this blog, you might be wondering – “What new I am going to learn here?” And specially if you have been working on PowerApps for some time, this question is even more relevant. Let’s see what’s new in here. If you want to display a Welcome message to a user …
Concatenate string expressions in PowerApps Canvas apps using $ operator Read More »
The feature that I am going to discuss in the blog has been there for sometime. But strangely I find many experienced consultants not aware of this feature. Hence decided to pen this down. But what is the requirement here? If you are working in Power Platform or Dynamics 365 products, you must be working …
How to stop navigation from Lookup columns in Model Driven Apps grid Read More »
Ever had a scenario where you mistakenly deleted a Power Automate flow? Or may be you created a flow and when you go back later you don’t see it. You think someone might have deleted the flow. Unfortunately there was no way to retrieve it back. Well, no longer. With the Power Platform 2022 Release …
This blog will rather be short. And based on one of my recent experiences in a project. The issue was Power Automate flows were not triggering for this environment. When a flow does not trigger, you tend to try out various things. The first thing is obviously to check if the flow trigger is correct. …
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This is going to be short and sweet. In Power Apps canvas apps, whenever we set the Color or Fill property of any control, we use RGBA code. For example – Fill property of Label control. If we try to put Hexadecimal values, Power Apps throw an error. If you are new to Power Apps, …
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