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Efficiently Sharing and Synchronizing Power BI Reports within Your Organization: A Cost-effective Approach

In today’s business landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to maximize growth while minimizing operational costs. Sharing essential information and insights with management or higher-level teams is crucial for decision-making. However, investing in Pro user or Premium per-user licenses for a limited number of users who only need access to view a specific Power BI… Continue reading Efficiently Sharing and Synchronizing Power BI Reports within Your Organization: A Cost-effective Approach

Microsoft Dynamics 365: 2023 release wave 2 plan overview

As features are ready for release, the Dynamics 365 release plan for the second wave of the 2023 release notifies customers of the most recent upgrades. The second wave of updates for Dynamics 365, Viva Sales, and the supply chain platform are scheduled for release between October 2023 and March 2024. In addition to Microsoft… Continue reading Microsoft Dynamics 365: 2023 release wave 2 plan overview

Microsoft Power Platform 2023 release wave 2 plan overview

Microsoft has announced the latest updates to the customers which are planned to be released during the period of October 2023 through March 2024 as a part of wave 2. Below are some of the features of Microsoft’s wave 2 which are more exciting to get started with. Let’s see what new features have been… Continue reading Microsoft Power Platform 2023 release wave 2 plan overview

NLP in Power Automate Flow

So, what is NLP or Natural Language Processing in Power Automate? Let’s say you are fresher to Power Automate Flow and you have a requirement to implement it. But as a fresher, first you will need to understand which Connector will be used for that, which action and many more. What if I say that… Continue reading NLP in Power Automate Flow

Custom Dialog

Many times, there is a requirement to perform actions based on the user’s input in the Model-driven app. Though there are many ways to do this like, adding a field to the form and getting its response, but as it is a user-interaction process, it is needed to create a “Dialog box” that can be… Continue reading Custom Dialog

Performing CRUD Operations in Power Apps using any Data Source – Part IV

In the previous 3 blog parts, we have shown what data source we are using, Data Model View, how to connect to any data source in Power Apps, how to read data from any Data source, how to create records using the Patch method for column of any data type to perform CRUD Operations. In… Continue reading Performing CRUD Operations in Power Apps using any Data Source – Part IV

Performing CRUD Operations in Power Apps using SharePoint List – Part III

In the previous 2 blogs of Performing CRUD Operations in Power Apps using any Data Source (part 1 and part 2), we have shown what data source we are using, Data Model View, how to connect to any data source in Power Apps, how to read data from any Data source. In this blog, we… Continue reading Performing CRUD Operations in Power Apps using SharePoint List – Part III

Performing CRUD Operations in Power Apps using any Data Source – Part V

In the previous 4 blog parts, we have shown what data source we are using, Data Model View, how to connect to any data source in Power Apps, how to read data from any Data source, how to create records using the Patch method for column of any data type, how to update existing records… Continue reading Performing CRUD Operations in Power Apps using any Data Source – Part V

Performing CRUD Operations in Power Apps using SharePoint List – Part II

In the previous blog part, we have seen how to connect to any data source in Power Apps and perform CRUD operations using SharePoint List as an example. In this blog, let’s see how to read the data from any data source in Power Apps. Reading Data from Data Sources in Canvas Apps: In the… Continue reading Performing CRUD Operations in Power Apps using SharePoint List – Part II

Microsoft Fabric – The One-Stop Shopping Mall

Imagine going to groceries and being forced by your mother to negotiate the best price for a variety of things from different vendors; it sounds tiresome, doesn’t it? What is the easier way to resolve this? You will visit a supermarket, where you can simply find everything you need under one roof. Data professionals face… Continue reading Microsoft Fabric – The One-Stop Shopping Mall

How to Get Barcode Value in Dynamics 365 Mobile App

Microsoft Dynamics 365 provides the ability to scan the barcode from the mobile phone and tablets. For that you can enable “Barcode Scanner” control on any single line of text field from the form. One can use this Barcode Scanning option to access the data easily. Let’s take an example to understand it in a… Continue reading How to Get Barcode Value in Dynamics 365 Mobile App

Dynamics 365 Media and Entertainment Accelerator

The media and entertainment industries have better solutions available in the extended power platform common data model through the use of Dynamics 365 Media and Entertainment Accelerator. The fans and guests’ engagement are now easily manageable via out-of-the-box model driven and canvas apps. The accelerator provides the below features: Microsoft Teams is integrated with the… Continue reading Dynamics 365 Media and Entertainment Accelerator

Increase efficiency with the Dynamics 365 Government Accelerator

What is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Government Accelerator Microsoft Dynamics 365 Government Accelerator is a new tool designed to assist public sector and government entities in understanding and consuming data. This first wave of the government data model supports policies, services, programmes, benefits, eligibility, licences, permits, grants, and more. It is accessible as an independent… Continue reading Increase efficiency with the Dynamics 365 Government Accelerator

Dynamics 365 Education Accelerator : Transforming Education Management

Dynamics 365 allows us to develop vertical solutions using industry accelerators. Accelerators are the extensions for the Microsoft Power Platform applications that provide the templates to suit the respective industry requirements. They provide most of the inbuilt functionalities so that the specific industries could leverage those features for their business requirements. In this blog we… Continue reading Dynamics 365 Education Accelerator : Transforming Education Management

Dynamics 365 Automotive Accelerator

As we know that Dynamics 365 Industry Accelerators are the vertical solutions supported on top of common data model to help the customers to easily configure their business requirements. Dynamics 365 Automotive Accelerators basically provide the features which can be leveraged by the dealers and the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) that includes automobile related deals… Continue reading Dynamics 365 Automotive Accelerator

Power Automate, now on mobile

This blog provides an overview of the Microsoft Power Automate mobile app, including installation, changing environments, limitations, and features. You can experience the familiar look and feel of Power Automate on the go with the Power Automate mobile app. Just as we used Microsoft Power Automate for Desktop, Microsoft introduced Power Automate for Mobile as… Continue reading Power Automate, now on mobile

Power Platform and Dynamics 365 based Industry Accelerators

We all know the no code/low code approach followed by Power Platform and Dynamics 365 among others has reduced the time it takes to deliver the solution to the end user. The industry accelerators developed on top of Power Platform reduce this time even further. These can be used on top of both Power Platform… Continue reading Power Platform and Dynamics 365 based Industry Accelerators

Performing CRUD Operations in Power Apps using Sharepoint List – Part I

Hello PowerApps Users, PowerApps is in demand nowadays because of its remarking features such as: Speed of app creation. Power Apps accelerate app creation. Low-code and no-code. Microsoft and other third-party service integrations. Business process automation. Low cost of app ownership.  AI capabilities.  Cross-platform access and ease of deployment. As a beginner in developing… Continue reading Performing CRUD Operations in Power Apps using Sharepoint List – Part I

Enable Offline Capability for Dynamics 365 Sales and Model Driven App

Sometimes the users of the model driven app will be required to update the data even if there is no connectivity to the application. This is needed when the users access the application in a remote place where they do not have the connection to the internet. In order to enable the app for offline… Continue reading Enable Offline Capability for Dynamics 365 Sales and Model Driven App

Dynamics 365 Plugin Assemblies. Single or Multiple? You decide!

In most projects with Plugins, there will be an obvious need for more than one plugin. This brings up challenges for how to organize and manage the assemblies and normally will result in having to strike a balance between maximizing plugin deployment segregation, (A single plugin class per plugin assembly) and ease of deployment/visual studio… Continue reading Dynamics 365 Plugin Assemblies. Single or Multiple? You decide!

Dependent Assemblies Update!

Hey Readers, breaking news!! and good ones this time!! Microsoft has released supported way for dependent assemblies in plug-ins. This release was released for public review for admins, makers, marketers, analysts automatically on 31 July 2022. General availability is yet to be announced. Currently developers use ILMerge Utility to combine set of assemblies in plug-in,… Continue reading Dependent Assemblies Update!

Power BI > Accessibility of reports published in same app workspace

Usually, Power BI Reports are shared with users by giving them access to the App Workspace where we have reports published. So, when we have 2 groups of users – let’s say, Manager and Salesperson. And there are 2 sets of reports, Set1 & Set2, where Set1 is to be shown only to Salesperson, and… Continue reading Power BI > Accessibility of reports published in same app workspace

Microsoft SQL Server > Find a specific value in all the tables of a database using T-SQL

Often times we find ourselves in a situation where we want to find a particular value but we are unaware of its whereabouts, i.e., we don’t know in which table or column this value is present. Or we want to know in which other tables a particular value is present. Or just if this value… Continue reading Microsoft SQL Server > Find a specific value in all the tables of a database using T-SQL

Introducing Power Pages!

Microsoft Power Pages is a part of the Microsoft Power Platform family. It is an evolution of Power Apps portals. The new features included are the new design studio. The templates are in preview for users to try and provide feedback. We can expect general availability of the Power Pages by next year. We can… Continue reading Introducing Power Pages!

Power BI > How to deal with a Text column having a length of more than 32766 characters.

Power BI supports up to 32766 characters of data in a column of TEXT Data Type. What if we have more data stored in the data source? Recently, we came across a requirement where we had to show the content of an email in HTML format in the Power BI report. The report was built… Continue reading Power BI > How to deal with a Text column having a length of more than 32766 characters.

Power BI > Hide NULL or BLANK values in Matrix visual

There are times when you don’t want null values to be displayed in the matrix, or only those items which has data in the table in Power BI. Suppose we have data as in the below image: And we want those names which has all the three types, S1, S2 and S3. Simply plotting the… Continue reading Power BI > Hide NULL or BLANK values in Matrix visual