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Grok has the same embarrassing personality that its creator does. How can anyone take this model seriously? Dude, you can’t sit with us.

Power Automate, Power Apps and Microsoft Forms Power Apps are great, but they aren’t always the solution. But this is a Power Platform blog! Why am I telling you to not write Power Apps? Sometimes when you have a hammer, every problem loo…

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Have just found Dempsey and Makepeace on YouTube. Down the rabbit hole I go...

Creating Custom Pages for Model-driven Apps In our last post we created a custom connector to read data from our Market Vehicles API. We updated our existing scheduled Power Automate flow to use our new connector, but now we look into how we…

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Working with APIs Part 2: Creating a Custom Connector In our last post we created a test API using Mockaroo and then integrated it into our LaRusso Autos solution with a scheduled Power Automate flow that sends a weekly email based on the output from …

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Working with APIs Part 1: Creating a test API What is an API? The short answer is that it’s an acronym for Application Programming Interface – but what does that mean, and how can we use APIs in our Power Platform projects? APIs pr…

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Eh, close enough.

Scenic pints

Building Canvas Apps Part 5: Working with larger datsets – Pagination and Filtering In our last post we learned how to use Power Automate Instant flows to fetch data for our Vehicle Servicing app. We didn’t set any limit on how many rows could be returned from our flow on th…

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Building Canvas Apps Part 4: Filtering Datasets and Delegation with Power Automate In our last post we took more control of the look and feel of our canvas app, using custom controls instead of Forms to improve the look and feel of our application. As outlined, this imposes more …

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Building Canvas Apps Part 3: Custom Forms, Containers and Patching In our last post we built a very simple canvas app using Forms, Galleries and our Service table. Forms are one of the quickest and easiest ways to build a simple CRUD application (Create, Read, Upd…

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Building Canvas Apps Part 2: The Basics of Galleries and Forms As outlined in the previous post, today we will build a canvas app! There are many great tools available to create a canvas app at the click of a button, including: Describing the problem scenario …

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Building Canvas Apps Part 1: Considerations The very first post I wrote for this blog outlined why you should build a model-driven app. Now, after six months of writing about all the great things we can build with model-driven apps, we final…

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Enhancing Power Apps with Power Automate – Part 3: Instant Flows In our previous post we looked at Automated Flows, which are triggered in response to some other event. By contrast, Instant Flows are those triggered on demand. Examples of such flows include thos…

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Enhancing Power Apps with Power Automate – Part 2: Automated Flows In our previous post, we used a Scheduled Flow to send out a weekly email reminder. In this post we’ll look into Automated Flows – those that are triggered by some platform event occurr…

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Enhancing Power Apps with Power Automate – Part 1: Introduction Many people don’t realise that the required user licenses for model-driven apps include Power Automate functionality in the cost, with the ability to run flows with premium functionality. Thi…

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Creating Custom Views on the User table with XRMToolbox Every Dataverse enabled Power Platform environment has a User table. In any environment, the User table contains the records of all licensed Power Platform users in your Microsoft tenant who have a…

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Bulk Importing Data using Dataflows Part 5: Multiple Tables – Application Records In this post, we conclude our series by importing all our application records – in our case, we are adding all the new Vehicles into our LaRusso Autos app. Along the course of this series, we…

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Finally finished!
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Bulk Importing Data using Dataflows Part 4: Multiple Tables – Related Reference Tables At this stage in our series of posts, we’ve familiarised ourselves with: Dataflows and the range of data sources available. Using Power Query to transform imported data. Using Power FX in cus…

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Bulk Importing Data using Dataflows Part 3: Multiple Tables – Reference Tables Having set out our plan in the previous post, we begin by importing data into our “Reference” tables. These are tables that: are rarely updated have no foreign key dependencies on other…

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Bulk Importing Data using Dataflows Part 2: Multiple Tables – The Plan In our previous post, we introduced Dataflows and demonstrated how we can use them to create new records in bulk. However, that example was limited to creating data in a single table. What happens …

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Bulk Importing Data using Dataflows Part 1: Single Table So far we’ve built two applications that allow us to create new records – our LaRusso Autos app allows us to create new records for Manufacturers, Models, Vehicles and Services. Our Doj…

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Enhancing Forms with Quick View to provide better context All of the tables in our LaRusso Autos app have relationships with other tables, for example: One Manufacturer makes Many Models Many Vehicles are of the same (One) Model One Customer has Many Serv…

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