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Annoyances, Features

Your Power Apps user settings are probably wrong

Are the date, time, number and currency fields looking funny in your app that uses Dataverse? Here's where to fix the settings & why managing them is so complex.

March 16, 2023
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Features

Dataverse results inside Microsoft Search in Office, SharePoint, Bing

How to include Dynamics 365 data inside the Microsoft Search UI. What limitations does the free service have & how does it compare to in-app Dataverse search?

June 27, 2022
Advanced Find Bing customization Dataverse search Microsoft Search Office 365 Relevance Search search SharePoint usability

Features

Share links with access to records in Model-driven Power Apps

Did you know users can now gain access to records in Dataverse even without any security roles? Time to explore how the new sharing links work.

May 24, 2022
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Features

Dataverse for Teams as your CoE platform

Power Platform Center of Excellence Starter Kit can now run inside a Microsoft Teams based environment. How can all those features fit in there?

April 13, 2021
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Features, Tips

Make your Power Apps search experience more Relevant

5 tips for improving the search results that your Model-driven Power Apps or Dynamics 365 apps provide via the Relevance Search feature.

November 4, 2020
Model-driven apps Power Apps Relevance Search search usability user experience UX

Features, News and events

First impressions on Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 1

On Jan 27th Microsoft published their plans for the upcoming 2020 Release Wave 1. We have a lot to digest once again, so here are my top picks from the Power Platform side of Microsoft Business Applications. If you don't have time to read through 100+ pages, then maybe you should start checking out these features and work your way through the rest.

January 28, 2020
2020 Release Wave 1 administration AI AI Builder Common Data Model Power Automate Power BI Power Platform Power Virtual Agent PowerApps

Features

Why would you store images and files in CDS?

Binary data is getting better support in Common Data Service, thanks to the new image and file datatypes. How could we leverage these in Power Apps? Here are some use cases for binary data storage in CDS, as well as comparison to the familiar Attachments feature and the built-in SharePoint document management integration.

December 13, 2019
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Features, Licensing

Sharing Apps Is Caring

A while ago there was an announcement made on the PowerApps team blog about “Share canvas apps with guests in your organization”. Launched in public preview, this feature makes it (almost) as simple to share apps with a guest user…

October 24, 2019
Azure AD Licensing PowerApps sharing

Features

The Real Common Data Service Emerges

When Microsoft announced one year ago that XRM would become CDS v2.0 (officially Common Data Service for Apps), there wasn’t yet any big system redesign implemented to make this a physical reality. Today we are much further down that road…

April 8, 2019
Azure Data Lake Common Data Model Common Data Service Connectors Cosmos DB data Power Platform PowerApps storage

Features

Playbooks for Dynamics 365 Activity Templates

In my previous post I explored the current Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement solution update practices and used the Playbooks feature as an example. Here’s a quick overview of what the actual Playbooks offer. The official MS documentation, “enforce best practices…

November 6, 2018
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