You are writing canvas apps and Flows, but what happens if you get hit by a bus? How do you make sure that someone will be able to edit them in the future? Option 1: add them to a solution. If you create your Flow or canvas app in a solution, Flows and canvas apps […]
Tip #1291: Do NOT create Flows
I am slowly dragging myself back to reality and going through the backlog of the tips submitted by our readers after an insane family holiday… (You can drop your tip into jar@crmtipoftheday.com. I can’t guarantee that we will publish the tip but I can promise that if we don’t, I will write to you personally […]
Tip #1281: Video guide to PowerApps AI Builder (Part 2)
In part 2 of our working with AI Builder series (part 1), we examine how to create and use the Binary and Text Classification AI models. We walk through t how to build the models, as well as how to consume them in both Model Driven Apps and Flows. https://youtu.be/GIyzQVP6_Vw Give us your feedback, all […]
Tip #1277: Alternative connector to trigger Flow from Dynamics 365
I’ve always been a fan of webhooks. In fact, I even manage to mention them twice in my rare crystal ball post for developers. Today’s tip is a good reminder from Stefan Strube that webhooks are not only a solid way to launch your code in Azure Function but also can be a good alternative […]
Tip #1276: Do my Dynamics 365 users need a Microsoft Flow license?
As you move your Dynamics 365 automated process from workflow to Flow, you may be wondering if your users will need to have a Flow license to run the process. First thing you need to know is that most Dynamics 365 licenses include Flow licenses–the main license type that does not include Flow license is […]
Tip #1273: Microsoft Flow dynamic content experience
When creating a flow, when you select a field in a step, you are normally presented with the dynamic content panel. This lets you select field references from your previous steps or write an expression. But sometimes when you click on a field you will see a less functional list of parameters appear underneath the […]
Tip #1272: A better way to notify
I love my D365 email notifications said nobody Recently I spoke at a conference with Dynamics users, and I asked the group of about 50 people who liked their CRM email notifications. Nobody raised their hand. There are several problems with traditional workflow based email notifications: Everybody gets too many emails. Blanket workflow based emails […]
Tip #1269: Oh crap, I lost my app
So you decide to “refresh” your development environment with a copy of your production environment, but too late you discover that copying an environment over another one makes canvas apps and flows created in that environment go away. What should you do? Other than kicking yourself for not remembering to back up your app and […]
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 […]