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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 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 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.
Consider the scenario where you have an existing Dynamics 365 environment and you want to create a new app for users to access and use. Let’s look at how to do this. First, let’s look at my Dynamics 365 environment. I already have several apps installed: I can select an app such as the Sales Hub, and it will open the App: Now let’s say I want to create a … Continue reading Adding a Model-Driven App to a Dynamics 365 Environment
This is an update to the post I wrote in 2017 on using Postman to access the Dynamics 365 Web API. In this updated post, we will use the latest Postman Windows client to access the Power Apps and Dynamics 365 Web API, going through the setup required. Setup Azure AD App First, we will need to register an app in Azure. Go to https://portal.azure.com/ and select Azure Active Directory: Select … Continue reading Calling the Power Apps and Dynamics 365 Web API from the Postman Windows Client
In the October release of Dynamics 365, headers of forms can be displayed as high density or low density. In this post, we will look at what this means and how to use it. In Dynamics 365 forms, there is a Header section. The section displays right at the top of the form, and displays information that a user may want to see consistently when viewing a form and scrolling, … Continue reading Enabling High Density Headers in PowerApps and Dynamics 365 Forms
In this post we will look at how to restore a Canvas App to a previous version. First, let’s create a new Canvas app: Let’s call it My App: In the app, we will add a text box with the text Version 1: And in the phone view, we see Version 1: Now let’s edit the app, so the text box is Version 2, then save and publish: The user … Continue reading How to Restore a Canvas App to a Previous Version
In the previous post, we created a new Custom Workflow Activity and used it in a workflow. Let’s look at how to debug one of these. Open the Plugin Registration Tool (PRT) and select Install Profiler: This may take a few minutes. Once installed, you will see the Plugin Profiler at the bottom of the list: Right-click it and select Start Profiling Workflow: Find your workflow in the list and … Continue reading Debugging a Custom Workflow Activity in Dynamics 365 and PowerApps
In this post, we will create a new Custom Workflow Activity, or Workflow Extension, which allow us to call custom code from workflows in Dynamics 365 and PowerApps. First, let’s look at how these are used. Log into your org and go to Settings->Processes: Let’s create a new workflow with the following. Set name = Test Workflow, Category = Workflow and Entity = Account, then click OK: Under Add Step, … Continue reading Creating Custom Workflow Activities (Workflow Extensions) in Dynamics 365 and PowerApps