Author: Carl

Using JavaScript to Add Spinner and Block UI in Dynamics 365 and Power Apps

In Power Apps and Dynamics 365, when writing custom JavaScript code, you may want to stop users from interacting with the user interface while your JavaScript code is processing. An example of this might be when a user clicks a custom button and some code runs, and while the code is running we want to display a “Processing” message until the code is complete. We can do this easily in … Continue reading Using JavaScript to Add Spinner and Block UI in Dynamics 365 and Power Apps

Create a Bot using Power Virtual Agents and Power Automate to Get Today’s Weather with No Code

The Microsoft Power Platform has exciting new capabilities with its Power Virtual Agents, used to build intelligent bots, and Power Automate, used to write no-code flows and integrations. What’s also exciting is the ability to call flows from bots in order to help bots answer questions and provide information to a customer/user. As I previously promised after the Ignite 2019 announcements, we will now look at how to create a … Continue reading Create a Bot using Power Virtual Agents and Power Automate to Get Today’s Weather with No Code

4 Years Ago Today at eXtremeCRM 2015 Conference in San Diego

I saw a photo come up in my social media feed from 4 years ago today at the eXtremeCRM 2015 (now eXtreme365) Conference in San Diego. What do you think, pretty accurate? Great conference, how time has flown and things have changed since the Dynamics CRM 2016 release preview.

Checking out the Org Browser Canvas App in Power Apps

In Microsoft Power Apps, there is an Org Browser Canvas App which connects to your Office 365 data and enables the app user to search for Office 365 users in an organization. This can be convenient if you want to enable users to contact other users, especially mobile ones. Let’s take a look at it. To install it, go to https://make.powerapps.com and select Apps, then Org Browser: Give the App … Continue reading Checking out the Org Browser Canvas App in Power Apps

How to Create Custom Events, Metrics, Traces in Azure Application Insights using C#

In our previous post, we created a Web API app running in Azure with Application Insights enabled. In this post, we will show how to write custom events to App Insights using C#. We will use the same Web API code we installed in the previous post. Open the project in Visual Studio and install the Microsoft.ApplicationInsights NuGet package: Click OK: Now the code. Let’s add an Event, a Metric … Continue reading How to Create Custom Events, Metrics, Traces in Azure Application Insights using C#

How to Create a Web API App using ASP.NET Core with App Insights

In this post, we will look at how to create an ASP.NET Core Web Application and host it in Azure with Application Insights. First, let’s open Visual Studio and create a new ASP.NET Core Web Application project: Give the project a name: And select API as the type: We see the project in VS below: Press F5 to run the app. Click Yes if you see the message below: And click … Continue reading How to Create a Web API App using ASP.NET Core with App Insights

How to Use Images in USD Toolbar Buttons

In Unified Service Desk, we can add images to buttons to help with the user experience. Let’s add buttons to the toolbars in the main USD app and in the session, on the Search button and Associated Contact button: First, let’s use icons that are available in the system. In Customizations, let’s use the msdyn_DetectAll_16 and msdynEntityNumeric icons, which we can see are uploaded as PNG images: Next, navigate to … Continue reading How to Use Images in USD Toolbar Buttons

Checking out the New Look and Navigation of the Power BI Mobile App

The Power BI mobile app has a new facelift. Let’s check out the new look and navigation. To turn it on, you may a welcome message when you open the app to Turn it On: Alternatively, go to Settings, then turn on New Look. Note below we are showing the previous version of the app, which shows the navigation to Favorites, Apps, Shared with me, My Workspace, Scanner, and Settings … Continue reading Checking out the New Look and Navigation of the Power BI Mobile App

How to Set Button Icons in Unified Interface and Dynamics 365 Power Apps

Let’s say we want to set an icon for a button on a form in Power Apps / Dynamics 365. We will use the Ribbon Workbench to do this. Let’s add this to our Account form. First, create a solution and add the Account form: To add buttons to the Unified Interface, we will use SVG images. For the Web Client, we will use PNG images. There are online tools … Continue reading How to Set Button Icons in Unified Interface and Dynamics 365 Power Apps

How to Set Up Custom Branding in the Power BI Service

In this post, we will look at how to set up custom branding for your organization in Power BI. First, let’s log into the Power BI service at https://app.powerbi.com/ and select Settings->Admin Portal: Select Custom Branding in the menu: We can see there are 3 ways we can brand Power BI: Logo Cover image Theme color Let’s look at each one of these. For the logo, the size should be at … Continue reading How to Set Up Custom Branding in the Power BI Service