Arm enables low-code adoption with a thriving Power Platform Center of Excellence
Arm, a leading semiconductor and software design company headquartered in Cambridge, England, has had a lot of success with Microsoft Power Platform. In this story, we will explore how they used parts of the Power Platform Centre of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit to put controls and guardrails in place to manage Power Platform usage, harness the enthusiasm of citizen makers, and form a thriving community of skilled practitioners who learn from each-other and develop high value apps for the organization.
Customize default values for each user in Power BI reports - SQLBI
Learn how to use calculation groups to define a default set of values for columns in your model. Different users can have different default values, and yet
Build Your Enterprise Power BI Deployment Team This Way
Even for simple Power BI deployments, you need a strong team. These are the roles you need to fill, along with the skills and responsibilities required for each.
In this video Devin continues building on a previously created Power Automate Desktop Flow design to show how to leverage variables to make solutions dynamic. Building a Basic Desktop Flow with Pow…
A Developer’s Guide to Creating Bad Power BI Projects – Part 1
It occurred to me that we have put so much effort into promoting best practices and proper design that there is far less information about how to create bad reports and data models. In that light, …
Connected PivotTable refresh in Excel for the web is now 100% available to Office tenants
We are excited to announce that connected PivotTable refresh in Excel for the web is now 100% available to all Office tenants. This feature is part of a broader investment to enable seamless and secure data sharing and collaboration with Power BI data in Excel for the web.
If you missed the initial availability announcement, connected PivotTable refresh in Excel for the web allows users to work with PivotTables connected to Power BI in a web browser just like in Excel desktop. With the Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) label integration, you can control sharing while keeping your data secure in Excel as an MIP label applied to a Power BI dataset is inherited in Excel.
Check out the initial availability announcement of connected PivotTable refresh in Excel for the web for more details on how to work with this feature.
New connectors through the Independent Publisher connector program
As part of the new Independent Publisher connector program, you can view and use connectors to the following services including Airtable, HubSpot Marketing, and many more!
Submit a connector to the Power Platform as an Independent Publisher
Through the Independent Publisher connector program, anyone can now publish a connector to the Power Platform! The mission of this program is to bring the best together. The best people, connecting great ideas to data, apps, and flows.
Customizing default values for each user in Power BI reports - SQLBI
This article shows how to use calculation groups to define a default set of values for columns in your model. Different users can have different default val
Building Custom Connectors for Power Apps and Power Automate Flows – Part 1 | Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM Tips and Tricks
Custom logic has until now and still being developed mostly as plugin or workflow assemblies. If you wanted to extend the default behavior of the platform on certain actions like create or update …
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data management is a breeze with the Microsoft Power Apps Office add-in
Apparently this Excel add-in for Power Apps has been around since 2018… where have I been? I recently discovered how useful it is for bulk data management operations in both Dataverse Pro and…
How to – Hide and show controls in Canvas App based on security role of the user (Dataverse / Dynamics 365)
Suppose we have the below Maker and Checker Canvas App, with two button one for raising the request and the other for approving and rejecting the request. We have below custom security roles create…
Call Microsoft Graph API using a certificate in a Power Automate HTTP connector
In this blog article, let us see how to call a Microsoft Graph API as an application in a Power Automate HTTP connector using a certificate credentials instead of a secret from the Azure Active dir…
Migrate content from Box, Dropbox, and Google Workspace into Microsoft 365 - release update
Microsoft focuses on providing a seamless move to Microsoft 365 with as much expertise and tooling we and our ecosystem can offer – across the globe. Our goal is to help move to the cloud with …
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!Last week the 2021 Release Wave 2 Release Plans were made available, you can find them here:Power Platform Release Wave 2 PlanDynamics 365 and industry clouds Release Wave 2 PlanRelease Plans summary articles are grouped together under Articles and don't miss the Top 10 in 10 Minutes video by Lisa Crosbie!Last week Microsoft Inspire was held, don't miss the Book of News and don't forget that content is available on-demand.BizApps highlights from Inspire:D365 data
Power Apps portals and Power BI integration enhancements
Power Apps portals has native support for Power BI reports and dashboard. With recent portal releases, we are adding support for more Power BI functionalities.
How to Name Worksheets in a Paginated Report Exported to Excel | Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
This question comes up every few years in SQL Server Reporting Services. Of course, in Power BI Paginated Reports, we have the same features. A couple of days ago, Karthik posted this question as a…
Building an End-To-End Analytic solution in Power BI: Part 1 - Understanding the Business Problem! - Data Mozart
When I talk to people who are not deep into the Power BI world, I often get the impression that they think of Power BI as a visualization tool exclusively. In this series of articles, I'll show you how Power BI can be used to create a fully-fledged analytic solution. In the 1st part, we are setting the stage by defining all the phases for building a successful analytic solution!
Create Paginated Reports for Everyone Using Separate Exports
How many times have you struggled to find the happy medium between a report that looks phenomenal when printed, but has everything a user might need in an Excel export? Stop compromising and start creating Paginated Reports with separate PDF and Excel exports.
Assessing the maturity of your Power Platform enterprise management and governance — Andrew D Welch
Organizations must continually mature their Power Platform enterprise management in order to unlock the platform’s value as a first-class cloud application platform and scale it over time. The Enterprise Management Maturity Model is the common standard that can be applied across the platform (and