Like learning anything new, you look at it and you go – “huh, I wonder how that works” and then you dig in and see what it does. Such is the case where I was looking at the AI Builder in Power Automate the other day, started playing around with it, and then went deeper … Read More
Category: PowerApps
Pull Requests with GIT Connections and PowerApps
I did a post a few months ago on Getting Started with GIT Connections and PowerApps, and when I was demoing this functionality to some users, the question came up regarding editing data from the GIT repository back to PowerApps (or was this only a one way highway). In this scenario, I navigated to my … Read More
TypeScript and Powerapps – Part 2 – Xrm Interactions
If I were to write everything out on integrating TypeScript and PowerApps in one post, it would drag on forever, and I’m not too keen on that. That said, I don’t know how many parts there are going to be to this implementation, and am going where it takes me. Using the client-side code in … Read More
PowerApp Plans
For months, I’ve logged into PowerApps and seen this “Let’s Make a Plan” thing and thought that it must just be some kind of Task App. The other day, I took a closer look at it and was blown away by what it could do out of the box. If you are a CRM/PowerApps Developer … Read More
TypeScript and Powerapps – Part 1
I’ve been working with TypeScript and Powerapps for quite a bit, but never built up the system myself from scratch, and wanted to take a shot at it. I’m surprised when I hear people scoff at this idea since it can ease your workload substantially, reducing bugs and complexity in code. To get started, how … Read More
Identifying Form Security Ownership in PowerApps
When approaching what I consider to be a pretty straightforward problem, I always think to myself, “I can’t be the first one to have had this issue.” Not only that, on the day of AI, when I think a task should take minutes, I actually spend hours trying to figure it out. Case in point, … Read More
Calling Child Flows from Power Automate
The problem that any developer will encounter, regardless of the platform they are working on, is the desire to never copy or duplicate code. It starts from a desire to keep everything clean and in its place but over time it evolves into being lazy (a good, great lazy) where you don’t want to copy … Read More
Customer Insights External Compliance Profiles
In Customer Insights (Real-Time Marketing), you have 3 options when creating a compliance profile, the first two involve using built-in Microsoft portal pages (Preference and Subscription Center) – where the Preference Center is particularly geared towards Real-Time Marketing, and the Subscription Center is geared towards the older Outbound Marketing. The third option, the External Compliance … Read More
PowerApps Solution Architecture: The Summary
Over the past few posts, we’ve discussed several different architecture options for designing and maintaining PowerApps Solutions. The All-In-One Solution The Feature-Based Solution The Team-Based Solution The Component-Based Solution The question now becomes which one is the best that I should use every single time. Well, the beauty of architecture is that there are many … Read More
PowerApps Solution Architecture: The Team Solution
The last solution architecture we are going to look at is very similar to the Feature Solution Architecture but instead puts a twist on it – the Team Solution Architecture. In the Team Solution model, solutions are deployed by the teams that create them. The teams can be of any size, but generally, their deliveries … Read More