Category: Power Platform
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10 things I’ve done with the Power Platform
As you may have seen from some of my recent posts, Power Platform is a wide umbrella that covers a number of Microsoft Business Applications products. Here’s some things that are related to the Power Platform that I’ve done in the past: Personal Power BI reports Power BI is an awesome tool when building a…
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How to filter and sort systemusers in Power Apps
Just a short one today. I had a combo box in Power Apps that was connected to the Users table in Dataverse. All those users with the # symbol are annoying. Also, I wanted to sort the results by name. Expression to filter and sort systemusers in Power Apps As you can see above, there’s…
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Power Platform and Dynamics 365 explained
I wanted to find a little explainer for someone about what Power Apps are and what Dataverse is and how Dynamics 365 plays into all of it, but I wasn’t able to find what I wanted so I decided to write something on my own. The current Microsoft Business Applications landscape This is the way…
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I was using Microsoft Power Automate to update a Dataverse record. Specifically, I was creating a lead and wanted to assign an owner to it. Here’s the highlights: Assigning an owner to a lead using Power Automate To assign an associated record (in this case, a systemuser record) to the lead during creation, you need…
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What language does Power Automate use?
Power Automate and Logic Apps both use the same language, Workflow Definition Language (or WDL). The nice thing about Azure Logic Apps and Power Automate, though, is that there’s a fancy front end that allows you to generate most of the code without hands-on-keyboard. Here’s an example. I built a small little flow that uses…
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How to make Power App and Power Automate work together?
Was working with Power Apps and the Microsoft Graph API, and it seemed easiest to put together a couple of flows to interact with it asynchronously. I wanted to both pull data down from the graph API and also update data. Regardless, I was building a little prototype app, and I got stuck on something.…