In today’s fast-paced business world, real-time communication is essential. In this guide, I’ll show you how I built a fully automated employee onboarding notification system using Adaptive Cards and Power Automate. When a new employee is added in Dataverse, the system automatically sends an Outlook notification with their details and a direct link to view…
Managing subscription renewals is critical for any business offering SaaS products or long-term service agreements. Missing renewal alerts can mean lost revenue, churned customers, or costly last-minute scrambles. One of the biggest challenges in building reliable renewal reminder automations in Dynamics 365 (Dataverse) is date filtering. ✅ Dataverse stores all DateTime fields in UTC, while…
When building Power Automate flows, two commonly used actions for storing data are: Initialize/Set Variable Compose 🧠 What is a Variable? A variable is a mutable container — which means you can change or update its value after it's created. You must initialize a variable with a specific datatype like String, Boolean, Integer, Array, or…
In this blog post, we’ll explore how you can dynamically retrieve team members using the teammembership_association/any(t:t/teamid eq teamid) query in Power Automate. This query is particularly important when working with Teams in Dataverse, as it enables you to efficiently filter and target specific team members for scenarios like notifications, approvals, or other automated workflows. We’ll…
What is Test Studio You can test inside of canvas apps with the built-in tool called Power App Test Studio. This tool can help you write, organize, and automate your tests for canvas apps. How to Work with Test Studio Open Test Studio Sign into Power Apps Create a new app or edit an existing app…
In today’s fast-paced work environment, keeping track of important deadlines like work permit expirations can be challenging. Fortunately, Microsoft Power Automate makes it easy to create flows that automate this process. In this blog post, we'll walk through how to set up a Power Automate flow that sends alerts to employees 30 days before their…
Environment variables in Power Apps are essentially key-value pairs that store configuration settings, which can be used across different components within your Power Platform solutions. They offer a flexible and efficient way to manage parameters that might change between environments (like development, testing, and production) or need to be updated without modifying the actual app…
E-sign is the electronic equivalent of a handwritten signature. It's a digital way of signing documents electronically rather than using pen and paper. This process involves applying an electronic signature to a document. Documents can be signed and processed much faster compared to traditional ways. They can also be signed from anywhere with an internet…
Power Automate is a powerful tool that allows users to automate tasks and processes within Microsoft applications. One of its many useful features is the ability to populate rich text controls within a document template. Rich text control also known as content control are placeholders within a document that allow users to input and format…
This blog shares an idea about a standard feature in power apps, which can be used for setting up appointment invites from power apps. These appointments created will also be reflected in your event calendars which makes it easier for you to join the meetings directly from there. This interesting feature was recently implemented for…
In the ever-evolving landscape of business automation, integrating different software systems has become crucial for streamlining processes and enhancing productivity. One powerful integration that can significantly benefit businesses is the seamless connection between Dynamics 365 and Zoho Books. In this blog post, we'll delve into the process of adding a custom button in Dynamics 365…
The integration of Azure DevOps with Dynamics 365 offers numerous benefits for organization. First and foremost, it enables organization to have a unified view of all their work items, including user stories, bugs, and tasks, within one platform. Another advantage of this integration is the ability to link work items to specific Dynamics 365 records…
If you work at a nonprofit, you should understand the benefits of Microsoft PowerApps for nonprofits. What is PowerApps? Microsoft PowerApps is a tool that aims to place all the power of software design into the hands of non-coders. You can create custom apps from scratch to solve all your nonprofit’s unique problems. And thanks…
Efficient workflows are essential for maximizing productivity and ensuring seamless operations in SharePoint. By automating and streamlining processes the organizations can save time, reduce manual efforts, and improve collaboration. In this we will explore the combined power of Power Apps Custom Pages and Power Automate using Response Connector to streamline workflows in SharePoint Power Apps…
In this blog we will see how to upload files directly from powerapps to sharepoint without using any power automate flow. Here we will make use of Graph API. First we will create a sharepoint document library. For that go to the sharepoint site to which you want to create the library. And then click…
Exception handling is the most common practice used in programming to tackle unwanted or unexpected events. Since exception handling deals with anomalies, it avoids program error, flow error and system crashing. There are many reasons which can cause exceptions, including expression error, invalid user input, loss of network connection, user attempting to open files which…
Well, in order to call HTTP request from canvas app to external resources, you will need to go through a power automate flow and then get response back in the canvas power apps as referred in the figure below. SCENARIO: Call a flow from within a canvas power app on clicking a button and capture…
Power Virtual Agents empowers anybody to easily create powerful chatbots for a variety of purposes. The major attraction of Power Virtual Agent from a development perspective is its code-free graphical interface. With Power Virtual Agents, customer support chatbots, sales chatbots, and much more can be created. Chatbots can also be created for customers and also…
Omnichannel for Customer Service is a robust application that extends the power of Dynamics 365 Customer Service to enable organizations to instantly connect and engage with their customers via channels like Live Chat and SMS. Fig. 1 When a customer initiates a chat with any of the mode, the chat directly lands in Omnichannel dashboard.…
Automatic Record Creation rules and SLAs are required to be migrated from Webclient to UCI client by Oct 2021. There is a ARC & SLA migration tool in the Customer Service Hub and the same can be used for the migration. Internally these processes were running on traditional workflows and this is the strategic move…
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