Calculated fields columns are great for quick simple formulas. They are fast, instant, and always up to date. But what if you need to clear the value of the column as part of the calculation? Customer has sites, sites have assets in various categories (hardware, software, etc). The other day I’ve had a requirement to […]
They said Power Apps portals are only good for building functionality. They said Power Apps portals can’t do content management. They said Power Apps portals do not support publishing cycle without taking pages offline. They. Were. Wrong. The Enabler Watch this video to learn how to use language feature in Power Apps portals to create […]
The following tip is from Triasha Jalui. (Got a tip? Email it to jar@crmtipoftheday.com) You create a Power Apps canvas app, add a form, bind it with the Common Data Service entity. On the form you add all the necessary fields. Now you want to save the form/record. You use the SubmitForm function in the […]
You try to log in to https://make.powerapps.com, but you can’t log in because you get a “sign in required” dialog with the error “a silent sign-in request was sent but none of the currently signed in user(s) match the requested login hint.” If you get this error, clear your browser cache or recreate your browser […]
The wand picks the wizard Nick Doelman Too tired to read? Why wouldn’t you listen instead – t.j. It’s been my observation that with a few notable exceptions, people in the Power Platform community primarily focus on Power Apps or on Power Automate. Lots of people will use both, but generally people are more “app […]
I truly hope that one of the traits that differentiate me from, say, an ungrateful baboon, is ability to recognise when I’m wrong and apologise to Jeff Klosinski who sent not one but two tips an EFFING YEAR AGO and I haven’t published it. In my defense I couldn’t reproduce either. But you know how […]
One taketh one giveth (or other way around). Returning a favor to AK who asked: How does the portals handle uploading of virus? (Want your favor returned? Send your awesome tip to jar@crmtipoftheday.com!) There are multiple mechanisms you can put in place to protect your users from the viruses (no, not that virus, unfortunately).
Today’s tip is indirectly from Alex Shlega. Alex is very thorough in his writing so I was a bit surprised that his answer to running a synchronous flow from a webhook was a ‘no’. The reason cited was that CDS “execution pipeline” won’t wait for the Flow completion. Well, it will indeed not, but only […]
Checkers are everywhere. It used to be a game immortalized for me by Segura and Wormold in Our Man in Havana. Nowadays it’s ubiquitous software that just keeps poking their nose into the intricate world of citizenmanship. We have Power Apps checker, Flow checker, Solution checker, Portal checker, Power BI checker (phew, got carried away […]
of the