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Since October 2019, it is possible to share a Power App with an external user, but many people still aren’t aware of that or don’t know how to do that. In this blogpost, I will explain you how to do this. External user First of all, let’s define an external user. This is a user […]

Announcing the availability of Power Automate Desktop getting started videos and community forum. These range from getting started building your first flow, to working with Excel and invoice processing.

Power Apps Checker for XrmToolBox creates a rich experience when validating the quality of solutions for CDS, Dynamics 365, Power Apps Canvas Apps and Power Automate flows.

In this PowerApps blog, I will explain to you how to create navigation in PowerApps using gallery control. Here we will also maintain the Navigation items in the SharePoint list so that we can make …

[Availability update | July 28th, 2020 | Microsoft Lists began roll out to Targeted Release (TR) customers in Microsoft 365, planned TR completion by end of August 2020 where we'll then begin broader production roll out - more availability insight in the FAQs section below] At Build 2020, we intro...

GitHub actions for Power Platform available in preview

Today we’re excited to announce a broad set of new ALM capabilities for importing solutions. In addition to these modern new interfaces, now you can establish connections as well as set values for environment variables.  We’re also excited to announce that environment variables are now generally available. Together, these features address some of the largest application lifecycle management problems facing the Power Platform.

Today we are excited to announce that three AI Builder preview model types are now generally available.

(if you downloaded this before 12:40 Jan 20th 2019, please re-download!)   Having demo'd this version for the first time at Microsoft Ignite The Tour London, I have now released this for you all to use and remix! I have completely re-vamped the method of theming Power Apps. No longer do you have to ...

At the time of writing this, we're preparing for Day #3 of GlobalCon2 [Register to join here]. Day #1 was so informative and I can't thank Microsoft enough for "trusting us" to deliver some of their amazing announcements.One session in particular that resonated with me was around the new "Microsoft Lists" announcement from Lincoln DeMaris. (Note: […]

Build 2020 brought a lot of Microsoft 365 news and announcements for businesses and developers – including the first disclosure of Microsoft Lists. We are pleased to share our vision for Lists – to highlight how you use it to track issues, manage inventory, build out event agendas, report status, ma...

BEFORE WE START, I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM SPENDING MORE TIME THESE DAYS CREATING YOUTUBE VIDEOS TO HELP PEOPLE LEARN THE MICROSOFT POWER PLATFORM. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW I BUILD APPS, OR FIND SOMETHING USEFUL READING MY BLOG, I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE YOU SUBSCRIBING TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL. THANK YOU, AND LET'S KEEP LEARNING TOGETHER. CARL https://www.youtube.com/carldesouza One of the cool recent announcements by Microsoft … Continue reading New Features – Common Data Service, SQL and Power BI !!!

Learn how to create a tree view in Power Apps.

Test Studio is the place where you can create your tests.

Quite a while ago in 2018 I wrote about how to debug Power Apps. Then we still had to go through development steps just to understand what was happening in

From the day Microsoft made the "PowerBI - Refresh a dataset" Power Automate connector available, and having seen this video by GuyInACube https://guyinacube.com/2019/10/24/use-microsoft-flow-and-other-options-to-refresh...

Revamped ALM content on MS Docs

Parse JSON can be both intelligent and dumb.  It can help you a lot and it can hinder you just as much. This blog post, we go deep and study the behaviour of the Parse JSON action, it's various problems and solutions. Here we tackle the question - How do you use Parse JSON, actually ? P

At the end of 2019, we put out a call to Power Apps fans everywhere to participate in our #MadeItWithPowerApps challenge. We wanted to hear the best advice real Power Apps users had to give to those looking to take the leap into low-code app development.

You can now replace a canvas app with another app or a web page in the same browser tab. In addition, a control can refer to itself in formulas.

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Helps with initializing, building and testing Power Apps Component Framework components

<p>AI Builder prediction models now support a preview capability to predict multiple outcomes. Now you can use AI builder intelligence to predict things like is shipping going to be early, on time or late. Or will the business flow be completed as a success, a failure or cancelled.</p>

In my last two posts (see here and here) I showed you how you can call the new endpoints in the Power BI REST API for exporting a report. There are some obvious, extremely useful applications for t…

Today we are excited to announce that you can now draw fields that were not automatically detected by AI Builder, available in preview.

The Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit is a set of templates that are designed to help get started with developing a strategy for adopting, maintaining and supporting the Power Platform, with a focus on Power Apps and Power Automate. A core part of the CoE Starter Kit is a Power BI Dashboard that provides you with a holistic view with visualizations and insights into resources in your tenant: environments, apps, flows, connectors, connection references, makers and audit logs. In this post, discover what’s new and what you can learn from the dashboard.

Link previews for Power BI in Microsoft Teams are now available as a preview features. They help users collaborate by making it easier to find, open, and stay up to date when sending links through Microsoft Teams.

In this post, i will show how to use Patch function in PowerApps to update multiple records in SharePoint list as data source. Hope it is helpful. Introduction Patch function is used to modify a re…

I need to patch or insert certain fields for every record in a collection, into a datasource. Meaning, FOR all records in my collection, insert an individual record with certain fields into some datasource. Her is my collection: coll.FieldA, coll.FieldB, coll.FieldC I need to do a ForAll(coll, p...