Anyone have any idea how to log out of Skype when your only option is to “Go to Teams”? Daryl “Always Raising” LaBar Why would you need to do that? This is my story. I had two Skype accounts: one from my company and another one from, uhm, a partner. I was signed into Skype […]
Tip #1264: Subscribe to AD changes using Flow
My flowbies! I want to trigger a Flow based on someone being added to an Azure AD Group. This doesn’t appear to be possible currently, as the Azure AD connector has no triggers. Am I correct? Andrew Bibby Hold my beer Microsoft Graph API contains the subscription feature where you can create subscriptions where a […]
Tip #1263: Microsoft Flow and Azure outages
Most of you were probably impacted by a most recent Azure outage on May 2 (see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/status/history/). Between 19:29 and 22:35 UTC on 02 May 2019, customers may have experienced connectivity issues with Microsoft cloud services including Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Azure DevOps. Most services were recovered by 21:40 UTC with the remaining […]
Tip #1261: Get BAD & MAD in Hawaii
Is there a plan for new Masterclasses in 2019? These classes seem the way to go to be future proof and finetune our current methods. From the email Good news! We are opening BAD season straight after the Business Application Summit that takes place in Atlanta on June 10-11. At the summit you’ll hear about […]
Tip #1258: Dynamic attribute names in Flow
You know who are the most relentless follow-uppers? Super Simple Flow users, that’s who. Thank you everyone for your answers to my previous question. I have a follow up question. Is it possible to get the value of an attribute off of an entity dynamically instead of declaratively? E.g. instead of blah?[0]?.fullname something like blah?[0]?[someattributenameIgotinapreviousstep] […]
Tip #1257: Learn Compose action in Flow
I wanted to name this tip “Do not use variables in Flow” but then it would have been a click-bait, not a tip. Yesterday we worked our way through the concept of getting an attribute of the first record from the list. The very first step we avoided was to “declare the variable”. Yes, it […]
Tip #1256: Get attribute of the first record from the list
This is probably a super simple question, but I’m a super simple flow user. After listing records from D365 how would I go about retrieving an attribute value of the first result returned? Michael “Super Simple Flow User” Ochs I won’t name the person who suggested the following: Declare variables to store values. Include top […]
Tip #1255: Say hello to PowerApps Component Framework
At long last we have that abbreviation sorted out. CCF PCF or PowerApps control Component Framework a.k.a. Goodbye Web Resources is now available for public preview. It sounds grand and does hold the promise of changing the way we extend PowerApps, both model-driven and canvas. Read the announcement conveniently placed within the new PowerApps Component […]
Tip #1251: Run workflow when something did not happen
Flow is all the rage these days but there are some scenarios where classic workflow still rules. Classic workflow has the uncanny ability to readjust itself when underlying data you’re waiting for, changes. This dialog took place not so long ago: Steve “Reads his own blog” Mordue: I want to trigger a workflow to update […]
Tip #1248: Stop using OrganizationProxy
One of the topics discussed during the MVP Summit 2019 was the brexit of SOAP API. I thought we dealt with it already but there is an additional small but important message: Stop using OrganizationProxy Matt “Platform Deity” Barbour Hold on, you may ask, didn’t you tell us that IOrganizationProxy is fine? Yes, it is, […]