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With PowerApp Portals scheduled to release soon we wanted to give you a primer on what the getting started experience will look like and get you ready for this exciting new technology. If you are not familiar with PowerApps Portals it adds the ability to PowerApps to build low-code, responsive websi...

As an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) and consultancy services provider specialising in Office 365 and the PowerPlatform (Flow, PowerApps and PowerBI), we spend a huge amount of time with our customers defining strategy, reviewing best practices, building solutions, fixing issues and of course rev...

<p>In June the PowerApps team released over 16 new features and enhancements for making your application creation experience even more productive and fun. This blog post gives you the highlights…

Introduction In this article we will look at: Branding Creating Responsive Screens. Using Collections to standardize your UI. Other UI Design best practices, including using SharePoint list to configu…

In PowerApps, once you get beyond the basics of customizing SharePoint list forms, or just using the out-of-box form control in your apps, the next common thing that people like to do, is add some log…

<p>Today we have released support for one of our most popular feedback requests into public preview, allowing PowerApps component framework developers the ability to use React to build their com…

<p>Announcement of a PowerApps Center of Excellence starter kit asset download. </p>

<p>Bring Common Data Service into Outlook with contextual model-driven PowerApps</p>

Today we’re announcing AI Builder, our low code artificial intelligence platform that supports the Power Platform. It will be available for consumption on data that already exists in the Common Data Service (CDS), the enterprise-grade datastore included in the Power Platform. AI Builder is the platform on which all our Dynamics 365 AI services are/will be built and customized, in addition to providing a low-code user experience for every developer to create and customize their PowerApps and Flows.

Today we’re excited to announce “PowerApps Portals” which allows organizations to build powerful low-code websites which allow external users to interact with the data stored in Common Data Service. With the introduction of PowerApps Portals, we are also merging the capabilities offered by Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement portals to ensure that all the Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement application portals gets the benefit of our simplified low code offering.

With this preview, users can now run an instant flow to automate repetitive tasks, generate documents, track approvals, and more – on-demand from a step in a business process flow.

<p>We are happy to announce a significant update to the Data Table control coming this week. This includes the updated field selection, Text property allowing formatting and calculated val…

Post describing the update to ColorValue to include transparency and the addition of transparent colour.

When you use Nintex workflows and you are considering to switch to Flow. Or when you use Flow and want to switch to Nintex it can be difficult to make the right choices. In this series of posts I a…

The Common Data Model (CDM) is a shared data model that is a place to keep all common data to be shared between applications and data sources. Another way to think of it is is a way to organi…

Introducing the JSON function for generating JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) within a canvas app. Use it to share data with systems and APIs that require JSON. You can also this function to encode and export images in base64 for the first time. And we also added two small features: #rrggbbaa notation and Color.Transparent.

Everyone who has experimented with Google voice dialogs might experience that there is no out of the box way to connect the Google dialogs with automation software. There are a lot of programming opportunities in Dialogflow, but building a automation solution without coding seems to be difficult. I ...

Refer to this list for deciding which sessions to attend while you are at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2019 in Atlanta

In this post, we will import data from an Excel spreadsheet into a model-driven PowerApp, creating a Data Integration Project that uses Power Query. First, let’s look at a spreadsheet we have. It contains 2 accounts, with the account name and revenue: This spreadsheet is sitting in a SharePoint library. Let’s go to PowerApps.com and pull up our model-driven app. Select Entities: Clicking on Accounts, we can see the data … Continue reading Import Excel Data into a Model Driven PowerApp using Data Integration Project

Clicking on the Embed option from the Send Survey tab, there are three options.Let's look at how to embed a survey in to a page on your website.

In this article, I will describe how to automate the creation of complex PDF documents from a template. Let us say we have a sales department. They are tired of filling the same documents with brief changes again and again. We could provide them some form for filling data and generate documents automatically.

We are excited to announce that we have added a new experience rolling out this week for selecting data sources in canvas apps and to allow using the Common Data Services views as a filter on entities. Configuring a gallery or data table control is much easier with a prompt guiding the data source or connector to use. With this new experience is an improved data access to Common Data Service and will soon include all of the recent connection improvements. To streamline use of Common Data Service, the data source selection includes a list of suggested entities. The ability ...

Metadata customization for Common Data Service entities is now faster and more seamless than ever.

Nobody wants to lose unsaved changed. And yet there are many ways to exit a canvas app while still in a dirty state, from closing the browser tab to swiping back to the list of apps on the phone. Now there is a way to prevent losing unsaved changes. The App object has two new … Continue reading “ConfirmExit for canvas apps”

Can calculating your organisations Net Promoter Score be achieved using Microsoft Forms Pro? You bet it can! Let's look at how to do this.

Canvas apps now support changing the environment within the Common Data Service connector. The default behavior hasn’t changed and existing Common Data Service connections will continue to use the canvas app’s current environment. When adding a new data source, we now display the environment at the top of the list of entities. The default appears … Continue reading “Enable Common Data Service connector to select an environment”

Keyboard shortcuts for canvas apps