by The CRM Chap | Mar 14, 2021 | Dynamics 365, Sales
A notable aspect of a platform like Dynamics 365 is that it caters for organisations of any size. However, keep in mind that not all the various applications behave the same, and you may get caught out by issues like buttons not appearing where you expect them to be…
by The CRM Chap | Jan 31, 2021 | Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Enterprise, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Platform, Project Service Automation, Sales, Service
Do you ride the wave? As Microsoft Business Application specialists, we do this a lot, as we contend with two yearly release waves, with lots to consume and look forward to! For the first 2021 release wave, here are the top 5 things I suggest you look out for.
by The CRM Chap | Dec 20, 2020 | Dynamics 365, Power Platform
This year has seen a lot of changes when it comes to the exams available for the Power Platform and Dynamics 365. So it's perhaps unsurprising that we close out the year with news about not one, but two, new Fundamentals exams, targeting Dynamics 365 specifically.
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 8, 2020 | Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Dynamics CRM, Enterprise, Power Apps, Power Platform
On December 4th, 2020, Microsoft will start transitioning customers across to the new Unified Interface (UI), if you haven’t done so already. I hope this news does not come as a surprise to you, if it has, please read this blog post to find out more.
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 things…
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.
by The CRM Chap | Oct 11, 2020 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Platform
Environment variables, a feature that has recently gone into general availability, provides us with some interesting new capability to tailor the functionality of our canvas Power Apps and Power Automate flows, based on the environment we are targeting. What’s more, they are dead easy to start working with.
Recent Comments