Joe Gill

Microsoft MVP - Power Platform Consultant

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Power Apps

Power Apps allows you to quickly build low-code business applications and can connect to your business data stored either a range of data platforms including the CDS, Common Data Service. There are a lot of benefits to using Microsoft Power Apps such as speed, easier app creation, Microsoft flow and office 365 integration. Check out the latest posts from troubleshooting to tutorials on using Power Apps.

Power Platform – 2020 Wave 2 Highlights

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The Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 2 Plan was published today and here are some of the highlights that caught my eye. Power Automate RPA Microsoft recently purchased the RPA product WinAutomation and added it to Power Automate to improve their desktop automation capabilities. WinAutomation is a well established fully functional RPA product and its initial integration … [Read more...] about Power Platform – 2020 Wave 2 Highlights

Create Powerapps Nav Bar Component for Canvas App

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I wanted to get more familiar with building Canvas Apps in Power Apps so I thought I would try and create a Wizard type app, that guides a user through a series of input screens. My intention was to use it in Dynamics 365 instead of the deprecated Dialogs. As part of this exercise, I wanted to create some reusable components that I could use in my Wizards screens. This seemed … [Read more...] about Create Powerapps Nav Bar Component for Canvas App

Create Power Apps Portal & Virtual Agent Bot

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Its getting easier and easier to build compelling digital transformation solutions using the Power Platform and Dynamics 365. Here is a quick post to show how you can deploy a Dynamics 365 Virtual Agent Bot to a Power Apps Portal. Both Virtual Agent and the Power Apps Portals are low/no code solutions that allows Bots and Portals to be created using using point and click … [Read more...] about Create Power Apps Portal & Virtual Agent Bot

PowerApps and CDS 2.0 (Dynamics 365)

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The Spring 2018 version of PowerApps saw the introduction of Dynamics 365 as the new CDS platform on which to build Model-Driven apps. As it is early days in the CDS journey the integration between  PowerApps and CDS (aka Dynamics) may not be as smooth as you might hope. Here are a few observations that may be of interest in relation to PowerApps Environments and CDS solutions. … [Read more...] about PowerApps and CDS 2.0 (Dynamics 365)

Dynamics 365 Portal Quick Start

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Portals were introduced into Dynamics after the purchase of ADX Studio. Portals are hosted by Microsoft and free to use (providing you have less than 1,000,000 views per month). A Dynamics Portal can be used to publish content and to allow portal users to view and update Dynamics data.  The administration and management of the portal is done from the Dynamics Admin Centre under … [Read more...] about Dynamics 365 Portal Quick Start