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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
In this post, we will look at Power Apps Portals Web Roles and Table Permissions how they are used. We will go through an example of displaying a list of Dataverse records. First, let’s create a new portal called Company Jobs. The goal of the website is to display content to both internal authenticated and external non-authenticated users. The difference is that internal people will see some more information on the … Continue reading Intro to Power Apps Portals Web Roles and Table Permissions
In this post, we will look at the Power Apps Maker functionality to create a 3-screen app from a Dataverse table. Go to https://make.powerapps.com/ and select Create->Dataverse: Ensure Dataverse is selected under Connections and click Create: Now choose a table. We will select Accounts: And click Connect in the bottom right: Our app is created. Click the Play button in the top right: The app is launched. We see some pieces … Continue reading Use the Three-Screen App Template to Build a Canvas App
In this post, we will look at how to use the Kudu API and PowerShell to deploy Azure App Services. This can be useful if you want to automate deployments rather than manually logging into the Kudu portal and performing deployments manually. Let’s assume in our example we are deploying between a DEV environment and a PROD environment. You may have more environments in the real world but this is … Continue reading Using Kudu API and PowerShell to Deploy Azure App Services
In Dynamics 365 Power Apps, when updating a custom lookup field using the Web API, you may run into an “undeclared property” error. Let’s look at how to get around this so you can update custom lookups through the Web API. This tip comes from one of my favorite devs, Joseph Duty! There are a couple of scenarios we will cover here. The first is when the entity is an activity, … Continue reading The Trick to Updating Custom Lookups using the Dynamics 365 Web API