Today’s tip is from Amey “Anything But Code” Holden. You can drop your priceless tip into our tipping jar too, thank you very much! I (Amey, not me – t.j.) often see users struggle with the confusing behaviour of lookups in model-driven apps. Typical sketch from an average week of consulting with model-driven apps looks […]
Tip #1431: Power Automate loops without variables
EDIT: Added range method. Thanks Natraj Yegnaraman for fixing my brain fart! When makers need a loop with a counter in Power Automate, say from 1 to 20 (or 0 to 19 for all of you developers out there), the immediate reaction I’ve observed is to reach for a gun variable: You don’t have to […]
Tip #1385: Can not see environment
The administrator gave me a role in a Power Platform/Dynamics 365 environment, but I cannot see that environment in the environment selector from make.powerapps.com or the Power Platform Admin Center. Lots of people lately So if you cannot reach an environment after being granted access to it, I’ve discovered the following seemingly fool-proof method of […]
Tip #1382: Build a bot with Power Virtual Agents in less than 10 minutes
I always wanted to have a boat. But you know what they say: there are two happy days in the life of every boat owner – the day they bought the boat and the day they sold it. Ah, you meant BOT? Oops… Well, same story, as it turned out, kind of “meet the creator” […]
Tip #1336: Find your plan in Power Platform
So you want to build a model-driven app or use CDS or some other premium feature. Your boss tells you that you have Power Apps and Flow access. However, you need to know if it is just the version that comes with Office 365 or “full” Power Apps or Power Automate. How can you tell […]
Tip #1326: Video Guide to Installing 2020 Wave 1 Preview
Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2020 Wave 1 is coming in April. To get ready for it we are putting together some video guides to some of the new features. In the first video tip from the series we cover installing the 2020 Wave 1 preview, including how to create a canary environment and installing […]
Tip #1320: Keep in touch
&tl;dr We are back, tons of tips in the pipeline, promise to keep in touch, new stuff coming, first BAD Masterclass of 2020 is just over two weeks. Tell me more We are back after month and something hiatus. Not that we did nothing in these few week, just the opposite. But we should’ve posted […]