Paper to Power App: Creating a Canvas App in D365 CRM from a Hand-Drawn Sketch

Power Apps, known for its low-code/no-code capabilities, now offers the ability to create complete apps from an image. Sometimes, the best way to design an app starts with something as simple as a pen and paper. Whether you’re in a meeting, brainstorming with your team, or just working through ideas on your own, sketching out… Continue reading Paper to Power App: Creating a Canvas App in D365 CRM from a Hand-Drawn Sketch

Create apps from Figma in Power Apps

The ability to create PowerApps from Figma design files directly helps bridge the gap between design and development by accelerating the app UI development process. It allows developers and designers to collaborate effectively and efficiently to deliver great end user experiences with low cost and effort. Designers can create designs in Figma using the Create… Continue reading Create apps from Figma in Power Apps

Group by in Array/Collections in Power Automate/Logic Apps

Power Automate provides a versatile set of actions and expressions that allow you to craft logic to meet a wide range of requirements. You can utilize these capabilities for data processing, filtering, and sorting tasks, among others. The ‘Group By’ feature in Power Automate is a powerful tool that enables you to establish a new… Continue reading Group by in Array/Collections in Power Automate/Logic Apps

Side Pane in Model Driven App – Part1

There are some scenarios where users spend a lot of time in getting the overview of quick updates due to lack of understanding on where to navigate for accessing the respective dashboards, list, records, etc in the model-driven app. PowerApps has provided an efficient way to reduce this gap and users can comfortably access the… Continue reading Side Pane in Model Driven App – Part1

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

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

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

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

How to create a Horizontal Scrollable Gallery in Power Apps (Canvas Apps)

Hello Power Apps User. Let’s take a scenario in Canvas Apps. Suppose we want to display 6 columns in a Vertical gallery. Then, we can easily achieve it by the following steps:  Add Blank Vertical Gallery.  Add multiple labels/any other controls inside the gallery. Add necessary DataSource to the Items property of the Gallery and… Continue reading How to create a Horizontal Scrollable Gallery in Power Apps (Canvas Apps)

Rename multiple views easily in Dynamics 365 and PowerApps

In this blog, we will see how to rename multiple system views together using export import approach. Many a times, we come across a situation, where we rename entity. So, if we are renaming the entity, next obvious thing will be renaming the views as well. Now, if there are multiple system views then renaming… Continue reading Rename multiple views easily in Dynamics 365 and PowerApps

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!

Low code! No Code! Then why code?

The no code/low code options are coming in, nice and easy. They don’t always make a big splash like the newest JavaScript framework. They don’t always give the open-source crowd nose bleeds that the newest JavaScript framework/newest language/newest stack/newest update of their favorite framework would do. The hard-core developers would scoff at these solutions especially… Continue reading Low code! No Code! Then why code?

New Alternative of Navigate() function on App.StartScreen and App.OnStart in Canvas apps

We were facing some issue when writing code of Navigation in App.StartScreen and App.OnStart of App within PowerApps. It is widely used for the initialization of global variables, prefetching of data into collections, and to determine which screen should be shown first. By default, the first screen shown when an app starts is the first… Continue reading New Alternative of Navigate() function on App.StartScreen and App.OnStart in Canvas apps

Create and Configure model-driven app interactive experience dashboards

In this blog I will show you how to create and configure Interactive experience dashboards in model driven apps. The Interactive dashboards are fully configurable and security-role based and deliver information across multiple streams in real time. The Interactive dashboards have two forms: multi-stream and single-stream. Multi-Stream dashboards can be table-specific dashboards. The multi-stream dashboards… Continue reading Create and Configure model-driven app interactive experience dashboards

Do we need Dynamics 365 any more?

Microsoft introduced Power Apps a while ago. These can be considered a very small version of Dynamics 365. These apps can be developed quickly using almost the same methods that we use for Dynamics 365. In fact, as we all know, the apps available out of the box in Dynamics 365 are actually model driven… Continue reading Do we need Dynamics 365 any more?

Attaching media files from SharePoint to Dataverse Email records

I was wondering if we had any tools, workflow solutions, automatic processes or any connectors in PowerAutomate to support attaching the media files like images or videos from SharePoint folder to email messages before we send the emails. Basically, we wanted to automate the process of attaching the images and videos into the emails which… Continue reading Attaching media files from SharePoint to Dataverse Email records