Clean up your Power Fx by Dropping Explicit Boolean comparisons Something I frequently notice when reviewing other developers’ canvas applications is explicit Boolean comparisons. While there’s nothing technically wrong this this, it is redundant. If you’re in any kind of consulting or contract work, it’s likely that you won’t be Read more…
PowerApps Solution: Multi-Day Event Calendar Scenario I am working with a client who manages a small group of apartments. The client reserves these apartments on behalf of their guests and needed a way to be able to quickly understand who was staying in each room over the course of the Read more…
Power Automate Solution: Due Date Reminders Use Power Automate filter queries to get tasks from Dataverse, parse out distinct Assigned To values, build an HTML table of tasks for each user, and send them an email reminder Scenario I have been working on an application with a client which allows Read more…
Scenario I was working with a client to build an application to allow them to better manage sales from inventory. As part of their invoice process, they export data from the application to a CSV. However, the client wanted to display a preview of this data before exporting. First I Read more…
This is part II in a series of videos that build on top of each other related to tracking requests. Make sure to Check out Part 1 here to follow along! Tracking the history of what happens to a request or approval over time is a feature that is highly Read more…
When comparing the integration points between Power Automate and either OneDrive or SharePoint, you start to notice that the SharePoint actions are much more robust when working with folder structures. Power Automate doesn’t allow you to auto provision folders in OneDrive, and many of the file actions do not work Read more…
Sending emails via PowerApps triggers is a useful tool to send out notifications and reminders as you guide your users through a workflow. . It’s nice to be able to auto populate that email notification with data from wherever your data store is, and if its SharePoint you can also Read more…
For a long time when Power Automate came out, the integration points with Power BI were not great. Flows were prevented from doing almost anything useful with Power BI except for refreshing a dataset. Which is limited to 8 times a day. Microsoft took a step in the right direction Read more…
One of the main use-cases that has always been a great candidate for the power platform is approval workflows. Using the ‘Approvals’ connector in Power Automate is usually the first method to use for this which has a handy Outlook integration that provides the user an interactive email that handles Read more…
PowerApps is an incredibly robust tool that allows developers to build a custom front end interface on top of any data source. One of the most powerful aspects of the tooling is a function called “User” that can give the developer options to personalize the UI based on a logged Read more…