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In this post, we will look at how to disable the Export to Excel feature in Dynamics 365. Disabling this may be useful if you have certain data governance requirements. First, let’s look at a user that has this functionality. Clicking on a list of Leads, we see he has the ability to Export to Excel: And selecting this gives him further options: In the Power Platform Admin Center, go … Continue reading Disabling Export to Excel in Dynamics 365
In this post, we will look at Dynamics 365 Business Units, Teams, and Security, and how they work. Let’s first look at an organization, that only has a root business unit. The organization wants to create business units for the East and West operations. We will create 2 child business units (East, West) off the parent root business unit, and then assign teams to the child business units. Let’s create … Continue reading Dynamics 365 Business Units, Teams and Security In Depth
Power Platform Actions for GitHub are a powerful way to implement DevOps and ALM strategies in your Power Platform deployments. In this post, we will take a look at these GitHub actions, and go through how we can use them in a real-world situation, by connecting to a Power Platform model-driven app and deploy the code from one environment to another. The Power Platform Actions for GitHub can be found in … Continue reading DevOps and ALM with Power Platform Actions for GitHub
Below is a glossary and list of terminology for Power Virtual Agents in the Microsoft platform. Topic – a subject that the bot understands. New topics can be created, and depending on the topic, it may be able to be deleted or deactivated. Topic Checker – checks topics for errors after the topic is built. Trigger Phrase – teaches the bot a question someone may ask. There can be many … Continue reading Power Virtual Agents Glossary and Terminology
In this post, we will look at how you can take advantage of the PVA Demo Website functionality, so users can test your bot in a simple way. First, go to your PVA bot, and click Demo Website: Copy the link under Share Your Website, and click Save: Now, when a user heads over to the link, they can see the bot embedded in the ready-made website: They can now … Continue reading Testing Your Power Virtual Agent with Demo Website
Super-Linter is a linter built by the GitHub team to provide linting for your GitHub projects. In a previous post, we looked at how to set up and use Super-Linter. In this post, we will look at how to customize the rules. We will continue on from the previous example. Specifically, we will look at a case where if we are lining JavaScript files, in which case Super-Linter uses ESLint, … Continue reading Customizing Your Super-Linter and ESLint JavaScript Rules
In this post, we will look at how to super-linter in a GitHub repository so your code quality can be improved. The GitHub DevOps Engineering Team built super-linter to help with their own best practices. You can see the GitHub repo for super-linter here. The linter is a “Combination of multiple linters to install as a GitHub Action”. So when you use GitHub as a source code repository, you can add … Continue reading Using Super-Linter in a GitHub Repo to Improve Your Code Quality
In this post, we will look at configuring the ESLint semi-colon rule. The ESLint semi rule can be configured so when ESLint runs, it will either require or disallow semi-colons. The JavaScript engine does not specifically need semi-colons in many situations such as at the end of lines. The engine will interpret code without semi-colons provided and know how to deal with it using the automatic semicolon insertion feature, or … Continue reading Configuring ESLint Semi-Colons Rule
In this post, we will look at how to use FetchXML in a Power Apps Portal Web Page and Template. First, let’s go to the Portal Administration app and create a new Web Page Template: Paste in the FetchXML like below. You can see we are creating a new web template, and running a FetchXML query, then iterating through the results and returning them in a JSON format: Scroll down … Continue reading Using FetchXML in a Power Apps Portal Web Page Template
In this post, we will look at how to secure an Azure app service with a subscription. We will do this by adding the App Service to Azure API Management. First, we have an Azure app service like below: Let’s add this to API Management (APIM). Go to APIM and click Create: Give the APIM a name, and click Review + Create, then Create: Now let’s go to our new … Continue reading Securing Azure App Services with Subscriptions