Category: Power Platform

Power BI, Power Platform, PowerApps, Quick Tips

Plot Multiple Map Points In Power Apps (Canvas Apps) with Dynamic Filters

Hi Everyone

In this vlog we will see how to see multiple points/pushpins on a map in canvas app. As always, this is a no code solution and fairly basic.

I have came across this requirement so many times in Dynamics 365 for e.g. show all customers on a map or contacts on a map or even appointments on a map. Many solutions are available for Dynamics 365 CE including add ons like Maplytics. But for canvas app, following issues persists:

  • No map components
  • Static bing/google maps can be inserted by inserting an image and then providing URL
  • Bing or Google maps API is required
  • Hard code latitude and longitude
  • If you want to show more than one push pin, you need to hard code all coordinates
  • You can’t apply dynamic filters on your maps

To me all of the above are not easy to use solution and that’s why I decided to look for something which all our #nocodemonkeys can use. This can be the fastest way you can plot all your customers on a map within canvas apps.

Prerequisites:

  • Access to Power Apps
  • Access to Power BI (Desktop and Web)
  • Super Basic Knowledge of how to create a chart/report in Power BI
  • Basic understanding of Power Apps formulas
  • Entity (accounts/contacts/appointments) must have Latitude and Longitude filled (otherwise it won’t be shown on maps

Note: You can get latitude and longitude by create a flow in Power Automate

Step 1-7 for Power BI and Step 8-12 Power Apps

Step 1: Go to your Power BI Desktop>>Create a connection>>Get data (e.g. Accounts)

Step 2: Once your data is loaded>>click on report icon and then add the visualisation type as shown below:

Step 3: Add data fields

Step 4: Save your Power BI report by clicking on the disk button on top left

Step 5: Login to Power BI web https://app.powerbi.com/

Step 6: Click on ‘Workspace’ in the left navigation and then click reports (this is where you can find the report you created in above steps)

Step 7: Click on the report to open and then click pin visual

Step 8: Login to Power Apps https://make.powerapps.com/ and pick your existing app or create a new canvas app

Step 9: Click Insert then ‘Power BI tile’

Step 10: Select Workspace, Dashboard and Tile

Dynamic Filtering- Step 11 & 12

Step 11: Apply dynamic filtering by adding new components like Text Input or Drop Downs. In my case, I have two drop downs and one text input; names below:

StateDropDown- With 5 values (you can have any values here)

CityDropDown-With 5 values (you can have any values here)

txtPostCode- Text input for ZIP/Postal Code

Step 12: Update the ‘TileURL’ of Power BI tile. Use the following sub-steps based on how many filters you need as it can go to Nth level (I am only showing three)

12a. One field filter

“Power BI TileURL” & If(!IsBlank(txtPostCode.Text),
“&$filter=accounts/address1_postalcode eq ‘” & txtPostCode.Text & “‘”)

12b. Two fields filter

“Power BI TileURL” & If(!IsBlank(txtPostCode.Text),
“&$filter=accounts/address1_postalcode eq ‘” & txtPostCode.Text & “‘”,
!IsBlank(CityDropdown.SelectedText.Value),
“&$filter=accounts/address1_city eq ‘” & CityDropdown.SelectedText.Value & “‘”)

12c. Three fields filter

“https://app.powerbi.com/embed?dashboardId=ed06a838-8b0f-4445-a582-1890699df2d3&tileId=401efbc1-2194-4807-a07e-7e89567e49ce&config=eyJjbHVzdGVyVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9XQUJJLUFVU1RSQUxJQS1FQVNULUEtUFJJTUFSWS1yZWRpcmVjdC5hbmFseXNpcy53aW5kb3dzLm5ldCJ9” & If(
!IsBlank(txtPostCode.Text),
“&$filter=accounts/address1_postalcode eq ‘” & txtPostCode.Text & “‘”,
!IsBlank(CityDropdown.SelectedText.Value),
“&$filter=accounts/address1_city eq ‘” & CityDropdown.SelectedText.Value & “‘”,
!IsBlank(StateDropdown.SelectedText.Value),
“&$filter=accounts/address1_stateorprovince eq ‘” & StateDropdown.SelectedText.Value & “‘”
)

Note: Screenshot below for better understanding

Result after dynamic filters

Video here:

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Microsoft Flow, Power Platform, PowerApps, TGIF Thank God it's Flow!

Sharing my MVP Award with you!

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A huge thank you to all for supporting me by watching my videos, subscribing to my channel and blog. it couldn’t have been possible without your support and that’s why I decided to share my MVP award with you by unboxing it together.

I received the notification of my award via email on 1st Jan 2020 and I received the actual award kit itself on 20th Jan 2020. Since I wanted to unbox it together with you, I thought I will wait until I can make a video. It was hard to see the box but not be able to open it but I was happy that I am sharing it with you guys.

I shared the news on Linkedin and received 35000+ views on my post and that’s just amazing for me. Follow me on linkedin, twitter and if you’ve not subscribed to my channel, do it now. 🙂

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Power Platform

The Top 10 Power Automate Community Blogs of 2019

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This list might help you to refer to these blogs when you need it. If you haven’t read it yet, click on the link and read it. I have also provided the URL of Author’s website (just in case you want to check out their awesome work). Please note that my list doesn’t include blogs from MSFT Employees. And is based on no. of maximum views on a blog post per month for e.g. if in January there were 5 blogs (Blog Post 1, Blog Post 2, Blog Post 3, Blog Post 4, Blog Post 5, ) with no. of views 5000, 4000, 3000, 2000, 1000 respectively; I have picked Blog Post 1 as top of that month.

Following are the top 10 by month:

MonthBlog Title No. of ViewsAuthorAuthor’s WebsiteTwitter
January’19Top 5 Microsoft Flow features from the April 2019 release notes 2976Daniel Laskewitz https://www.o365dude.com/ https://twitter.com/laskewitz
February’19Send a summary email of Microsoft Team Channel conversations/posts to all members on a schedule 6473Reza Dorani https://rezadorrani.com/ https://twitter.com/rezadorrani
March’19Create Planner Task and Include Attachments From Outlook Email 17908Alan https://www.alanps1.io/ https://twitter.com/AlanO365
April’19Create Planner Tasks from New SharePoint List Item 5801Laura GB https://hatfullofdata.blog/ https://twitter.com/Laura_GB
May’19How to add a text watermark to a PDF document using Microsoft Flow or Azure Logic Apps 1904Anton Khritonenkov https://medium.com/plumsail https://twitter.com/antonkhrit
June’19Automation Squared using MS Flow and UiPath 5576Yash Agarwal https://www.bythedevs.com/ https://twitter.com/yashagarwal1651
July’19The Four M’s of Microsoft Flow 2031Melissa Hubbard https://melihubb.com/ https://twitter.com/melihubb
August’19Microsoft Flow to Provide Item Level Permission on SharePoint List 2029Siddharth Vaghasia https://siddharthvaghasia.com/ https://twitter.com/siddh_me
September’19Extract data from documents with Microsoft Flow 2439Jay Goodison https://blog.encodian.com/ https://twitter.com/encodian
October’19Microsoft Flow as a Service2199 Yash Agarwal https://www.bythedevs.com/ https://twitter.com/yashagarwal1651
November’19Every Power Automate (MS Flow) Filter Query You Ever Wanted To Know As A Functional Consultant 1871Prashant Shukla https://diyd365.com/ https://twitter.com/DIYD365
December’19Power Automate & To-Do – The Beginning of a Beautiful Relationship2232Sharon Sumner https://power-full.blog/ https://twitter.com/Sharon__Sumner

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Dynamics 365, Power Platform

The Top 5 Most Watched YouTube Videos of DIY D365 in 2019

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First of all a big thank you for your support in 2019. Please continue supporting.

Following is a list of top 5 videos which you liked and watched the most:

Rank Blog Post Views Hours watched Series
1 The Secrets of Dynamics 365 Wave 2 (preview) 1326 137.8 Previews
2 Episode 5: Easy Power Apps Hacks To Make Your Users Life Easy 2365 123 PowerApps Tutorial
3 TGIF Episode 2: Building Your First Flow (Power Automate) 2293 118 Thank God It’s Flow
4 Episode 6- Embedding Canvas App in Model Driven App 1552 100 PowerApps Tutorial
5 TGIF Episode 3: Most Common ODATA Filter Queries for MS Flow (Power Automate) 2073 100 Thank God It’s Flow

If you’re new here or haven’t watched it yet, click on the link to watch.

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A lot of people have reached out to me on the videos asking questions and also how it has helped them; that’s awesome 🙂

Note: No. of views was accurate as at 12/12/2019. Ranking is based on the hours watched on my YT channel.

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Dynamics 365, Power Platform

The Top 3 DIY D365 Blogs in 2019

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First of all a big thank you for your support in 2019. Please continue supporting.

Following is a list of top 3 blog posts which you liked the most:

Rank Blog PostViews
1Every PowerApps Formula You Ever Wanted To Know As A Functional Consultant 3136
2Every Power Automate (MS Flow) Filter Query You Ever Wanted To Know As A Functional Consultant 2317
3Make A Better First Impression With Visitor Sign In App (PowerApps)2173

If you’re new here or haven’t read it yet, click on the link and have a read.

Most views I got were on Home Page/ Archives 13150 but that can’t be classified as a blog so no mention in the ranking table.

Note: No. of views was accurate as at 12/12/2019. Ranking is based on the views I received on my website and powerusers community blog.

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Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Quick Tips

How to fix the subgrid in Dynamics 365 UI?

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This blog is part of my quick tip series and will be short.

if you’re struggling with the responsive subgrid in Dynamics 365 and want to permanently fix it, regardless of the screen resolution/zoom or device; here’s the solution:

Look at the problem first-

Sub-grid 1-You see a sub-grid like this:

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Sub-grid 2-And it changes to this when you zoom out or change the resolution:

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So how can you make sub-grid 2 appear all the time?

Step 1:Go to advanced settings

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Step 2:Customisations or solutions depending on the need

Step 3:Entity>>Form

Step 4:Double click the sub-grid on the form

Step 5:Click controls

Step 6: Select ” as a control

Step 7: Select ‘Grid only’ under “Reflow behaviour”

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Step 8: Save and then publish

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Dynamics 365, Microsoft Flow, Power Platform, TGIF Thank God it's Flow!

#TGIF Episode 8: Top Reasons to Use Power Automate (Power Automate vs Dynamics 365 Workflows)

Hi Readers and Viewers

Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year! Thanks for your support in 2019 🙂

In this video, we will look at the top reasons for you to start using Power Automate. Also, this is the last episode of the series so I thought what’s better than a comparison. If you remember, in my first episode I asked you that have you found your reason to use Power Automate yet? Well, if you haven’t I am giving you the reasons in this episode.

Power Automate FlowDynamics 365 CE Workflow
No Code SMS Integration https://txtsync.com Not OOTB
Social Media IntegrationNot OOTB
Convert to PDF (Multiple ways available)Not OOTB
Copy Salesforce Account/Contacts to D365Not OOTB
Sync email attachements to OneDriveNot OOTB
Gmail to Dynamics 365 and Dynamics 365 to Google calendar Not OOTB
Updating 1 to Many relationship recordsNot OOTB
Update a lookup field from text field
https://diyd365.com/2019/03/12/update-a-lookup-from-a-text-field-no-code-solution/		Not OOTB
Update opportunity/order/quote from opportunity/order/quote close forms
https://diyd365.com/2019/09/13/how-to-update-an-opportunity-from-opportunity-close-and-send-an-email-on-opportunity-close-using-ms-flows-no-code-solution/		Not OOTB

Everything in the list above is in context of Dynamics 365. Out of the box (OOTB) Dynamics 365 workflows can’t do any of the above. You will have to create a custom workflow (#code) or a plugin (#code).

Hope I have given you reasons to start working on Power Automate.

Video here:

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