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As per a Tweet reply from Microsoft CVP Charles Lamanna, Power Apps is the new name for PowerApps, i.e. with a space. This moves it in line with the other the Power Platform applications and services – Power BI, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents. Time to update your Sales and Marketing materials. It is true – Power Apps, with a space. All of the Power Platform is aligned now: Power … Continue reading PowerApps is now Power Apps with a Space
As announced in at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, FL, Microsoft Flow will now be known as Power Automate. The rebranding moves the product in line with the Microsoft Power Platform, which consists of PowerApps, Power BI and now (formerly Flow) Power Automate. Microsoft has been describing the Power Platform as a way to “analyze, act, and automate” data and processes, so it’s not a huge surprise that … Continue reading Microsoft Flow becomes Power Automate and other Cool Features from Microsoft Ignite 2019
In this post, we will look at installing and setup of Dynamics 365 Portals from the Dynamics 365 side. To do this from the Power Apps side, see here. First, let’s head over to the Dynamics 365 Admin Center. To get there, go to https://www.office.com/: And select All Admin Centers: Then Dynamics 365: Select your Org, then Applications: Find Portal Add-On, and then Manage: We are taken to the PowerApps … Continue reading How to Setup and Configure Dynamics 365 Portals
In our previous post, we send a POST request to a Microsoft Flow. We showed how to do this using the Postman application. Let’s now run this from Dynamics 365 / PowerApps. On our Account page, we have a field called Partner Ranking. We see the ranking for the current account is set to 7: Now let’s say we want to post a message to a Microsoft Teams channel when … Continue reading Calling a Microsoft Flow from Dynamics 365 and PowerApps using JavaScript
In a previous post, we looked at how to trigger a Microsoft Flow using a GET request. In this post, we will show how to trigger a request using POST. We will do this using the Postman application to simulate our POST. We will use the same example as with the GET, where we post to a Microsoft Teams chat when the request comes in. Additionally, in our POST we … Continue reading Triggering a Microsoft Flow POST Request from Postman
There are several use cases where you may want to run a Microsoft Flow from a web page or sending an HTTP GET request. Let’s do this. We will create a flow that runs when a user accesses a web address and performs the action of posting to a Microsoft Teams chat. First, let’s create an Instant Microsoft Flow by going to https://flow.microsoft.com and selecting New->Instant – From Blank: We … Continue reading Triggering a Microsoft Flow using a Webpage or HTTP GET Request
In our previous post, we showed how to setup and use API Management (APIM) in the Microsoft Azure Portal. Now that APIM is set up, let’s add Application Insights to monitor the usage of these APIs. Application Insights, or App Insights, or an Azure service that can be used to provide detailed monitoring and reporting of your application. Let’s set it up with our test APIM app. Log into https://portal.azure.com/ and search … Continue reading How to Use Application Insights (App Insights) with APIM
In Azure, the API Management service helps organizations manage APIs. In this post, we will look at how this works. Let’s follow the example at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/import-and-publish. We will manage a sample API located at https://conferenceapi.azurewebsites.net/?format=json which looks like below: Log into Azure Portal at https://portal.azure.com and search for API Management and select API Management Services: You will see below. Click Add: You will see: Enter a Name, Resource Group etc and click Create: … Continue reading How to Setup and Use API Management (APIM) in Microsoft Azure Portal
In this post, we will look at the error “You must provide a value expression following the ‘/’ operator.” You may get this when you are trying to run the command msbuild in PowerShell : “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\MSBuild.exe” /t:restore In order to resolve this, run the command with an ampersand before it: & “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\MSBuild.exe” /t:restore We see the command is now working.
In this post, we will look at how to set up Power BI tooltips so when a user hovers over a record, it displays an image. Let’s follow on from a previous post where we showed how to display images from a URL in Power BI. We will now display only the City name in the report, and when the user hovers over the name, the tooltip will display the … Continue reading Using Tooltips to Show an Image on Hovering Over a Power BI Record