by The CRM Chap | Jan 10, 2021 | AI + Machine Learning, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Platform, Power Virtual Agents
Extensibility is one of the main advantages of the Power Platform and an area that Microsoft expects you to understand when tackling exam PL-400. As such, it's the focus of this next post in my revision notes series, as we round off our discussion concerning the first exam area.
by The CRM Chap | Jan 3, 2021 | Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Platform
We're back with the second post in my new series all about exam PL-400. In this post, we will take a high-level look at some of the critical components to consider when designing a solution targeting the Power Platform.
by The CRM Chap | Dec 27, 2020 | Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power BI, Power Platform, Power Virtual Agents
PL-400 is now officially upon us, having been released from beta a few weeks ago. With this in mind, now is as good a time as any to kick off a new blog series, dedicated to providing a set of revision notes for the exam. In the first post, we look at how to validate requirements and design a technical architecture using the Power Platform.
by The CRM Chap | Dec 13, 2020 | Microsoft Dataverse, Power Automate, Power Platform
Like me, you may have heard of Adaptive Cards, but not really understood how they work. Courtesy of the Virtual Power Group, I found a great excuse to dip into them and wanted to show how to use them in Power Automate flows to generate variable, tabular data.
by The CRM Chap | Dec 6, 2020 | Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Platform
Often, the biggest challenge you face when convincing a business to adopt a solution like Power Apps is the cost. So it's great to see that Microsoft has announced a new limited-time pricing offer, which offers HUGE discounts on the list prices for all Power Apps licenses...
by The CRM Chap | Nov 22, 2020 | Microsoft Dataverse, Power Automate, Power Platform
A few weeks ago, we took a look at Environment Variables and used a pattern within Power Automate that was less than ideal. In this post, we will revisit this subject to find out what was wrong and how to go about doing things in a better way.
by The CRM Chap | Nov 15, 2020 | Dynamics 365, Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Platform
More changes are afoot in the Power Platform! And this time around, not even the commonest terms within the Common Data Service are safe from being replaced with something entirely different...
by The CRM Chap | Nov 1, 2020 | DevOps, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Platform
Automation is key to any successful DevOps or Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy. However, this can be difficult to achieve if the platform in question does not have the capability to support this. Fortunately, for the Power Platform, we have the tools available to perform some pretty amazing thingsā¦
by The CRM Chap | Oct 25, 2020 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Platform
When you start mixing and matching aspects of the Power Platform, you can sometimes stumble upon some odd behaviour. For example, working with entity image attributes from the Common Data Service within a canvas Power App can leave you wondering why your full image is not rendering...
by The CRM Chap | Oct 18, 2020 | Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Platform, Project Service Automation
The Wave 2 2020 Business Applications release is upon us and, in true fashion, the community stepped up to deliver a whole event on the subject. It was a pleasure to be involved in this, and, today, I wanted to share my thoughts regarding the day.
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