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To install an R package, open your R UI such as RStudio. You will see Packages: Let’s install the DT library, which does not exist on this environment. We can do this through the GUI or through the command. We will do both, first the GUI. Click on Install: Enter DT into the Packages field and click Install: We can see this runs in the console the command: install.packages(“DT”) It … Continue reading Installing and Removing Packages in R
In Power BI, when using the R custom visualization, we may need to use an R package that is not installed. Note the list of supported packages. For example, we’re trying to use the DT library: But we get Error in Library(DT) there is no package called DT: We can use the command install.packages to try to resolve this: However, this produces this error: R script error. Installing package into … Continue reading Install R Packages for Power BI R Visualizations
In Dynamics 365, when using the Web Client, when a field limit size is reached, the user will be prevented from typing in the field. This behavior is different in the Unified Interface. In this post, we will look at how to stop the user from continuing to enter in Unified Interface fields when the field size is reached. Let’s start by creating a new field, called Field with Limit … Continue reading Stopping User from Typing Past Field Size Limit in Dynamics 365 Unified Interface
Following on from a previous post where we introduce changes to the Client API and form context, let’s look more at using this in order to move from the deprecated Xrm.Page. Using a similar example, we will pass the context from the OnChange event of our Fax field on the page our JavaScript function (we will reuse the OnLoad function): [sourcecode language=”JavaScript”] function DoLoad(executionContext) { var formContext = executionContext.getFormContext(); } … Continue reading Dynamics 365 Client API Changes Continued – GlobalContext and FormContext
In USD, we have the option to set the default zoom level for all users in an organization. To do this, in the USD Administrator App, go to Options and New: Create a new option called DefaultZoomLevel like below. In : Let’s say we set this to 3, like above. This will set the zoom to 3 times. So my environment is pretty zoomed in here: And that is for all … Continue reading Default Zoom Level for Chrome Process in Unified Service Desk
In the previous posts, we installed R for Windows and RStudio as an IDE for R. Both are configured to work with Power BI. In this post, we will run an R Visualization from the Power BI marketplace. In Power BI Desktop, under Visualizations select Import from Marketplace: Note you can see these visualizations from AppSource at https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-US/marketplace/apps?page=1&product=power-bi-visuals: Let’s install the Outlier Detection visualization from Microsoft. In Power BI Desktop, … Continue reading Running an R Visualization from the Marketplace in Power BI
In our last post, we installed R for Power BI. Let’s now install RStudio, which is an IDE for R. First, download R Studio from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/. We will install the free version: Select the Windows installer: This downloads the file below. Open it: Click Next: Select a path and click Next: Click Install: Click Finish: In Windows Start menu, we see the new RStudio folder with RStudio: Select it to open … Continue reading Installing R Studio for Power BI
To install R for Power BI on Windows, go through the following steps. First, we will download R for Windows. Go to the CRAN Repository and select Download for Windows: This will download the file below. Click to open it: Click OK: Click Next: Confirm the location and click Next: Select the files you need installed and click next. I will install on a 64-bit machine: Select customized startup or … Continue reading Installing R for Power BI using CRAN Repository
In this post we will look at how you can perform an action based on a data-driven alert using Microsoft Flow. In our previous post, we looked at how to set up data-driven alerts. In our example, we created an alert for when our quantity on hand was less than 3 for our inventory item monitored by Power BI. To set up an action based on this alert, we can … Continue reading Post to Microsoft Teams based on Power BI Data-Driven Alert Using Microsoft Flow
A useful feature of Power BI is setting up alerts when your data changes. Let’s look at how this works. In our example, we have a field Quantity on Hand for an item in our inventory. There are 5 items left, as we can see in this Power BI dashboard: Let’s say we want to set up an alert when the quantity drops below 3. Click on the dashboard tile … Continue reading Setting up Data Driven Alerts in Power BI