Category: Power Platform

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

#TGIF Episode 2: Building Your First Flow

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In this episode, we will deep dive into Power Automate and will create our first flow. We are also going to see different types of flows available within Power Automate. We will look at the following scenario to create our flow:

Scenario: Assign Territory to a customer based on the ‘Address 1: ZIP/Postal Code’ field in CDS/D365. (Address 1: ZIP/Postal Code is a text field)

Out of the box what’s available: Territories are related to ‘postal codes’ as 1: N relationship. Both Territory and Postal Code are available OOTB in CDS/D365. But on Account form, ZIP/Postal Code is a text field so how do we perform this action without any coding efforts.

Solution before Power Automate (MS Flow): If flow wasn’t there, we would have to create a plugin which will trigger post-operation/ record creation and check the value of ‘Address 1: ZIP/Postal Code’ in the data table of Postal Code and then pick up a related territory to update that territory on account form and the efforts required to that plugin would not be less than 4 hours.

Solution after Power Automate: Thank God it’s Flow! with the help of flow you can achieve the results in 5 minutes or less.

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Power Platform, TGIF Thank God it's Flow!

TGIF Swag Shop is now live!

Hello Everyone

Thank God it’s Flow Shirts are now available.

Please note that it is in association with spreadshirts and I only get commission out of each shirt sold. And every cent of the commission earned will be donated to ‘Rural Aid Australia’

“Rural Aid is one of the largest rural charities in Australia. A nationwide charity, it was founded by Charles and Tracy Alder in 2015. Its focus is twofold – to provide support to farmers and rural communities in times of natural disaster as well as supporting the sustainability of the agricultural sector.”

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

#TGIF Episode 1: Getting Started With Microsoft Flow

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In this episode of TGIF, we are going to see that how you and me can start our Flow journey. This is a short episodes and will cover the following:

  1. Licensing
  2. Sign up
  3. Start page
    • Enter a process name
    • Check templates
  4. Check out the mobile app
  5. Have you got the reason to use Flows yet?

I have covered licensing very briefly but there’s a lot of history and details about MS Flow licensing here by Jussi: https://jussiroine.com/2019/01/the-comprehensive-licensing-guide-to-microsoft-flow-and-powerapps/

or you can visit https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/?currency=AUD for more details

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Microsoft Flow, Power Platform

New Series #TGIF, Thank God It’s Flow

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Thanks for your support!

As promised, I am coming up with a new series #TGIF. It took some time to decide upon a name. I will be releasing episodes every friday starting 8th November 2019. Today is just the teaser and my thoughts.

In this series we will be covering everything flow mainly the following:

  • Working with Flow
  • Most common queries/filters
  • No code only
  • When and how
  • Integration scenarios
  • Business use cases
  • All about flow and everything about flow except coding

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Power BI, Power Platform, PowerApps

The Master is here for the Brisbane PowerApps and Flow User Group

Hello QLDers

I am really excited to give you a heads-up that in next month’s User Group, we will have the master himself presenting.

Did you guess it yet? it’s Charles Sterling 🙂

Linkedin here

Twitter here

Following is what he’s going to talk about (Still in discussion):

  1. PowerApps AI Builder
  2. Integrating PowerApps and Power BI

For more details visit the power users website here.

We will publish the agenda and venue soon on ‘Brisbane PowerApps & Flow User Group‘ website and Meetup Group

Make sure to RSVP as soon as you can because seats would be limited.

If you’re not from QLD and visiting Brisbane towards the end of November 2019, make sure to join the group and let us know if you’re interested in attending.

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D365Champs, Power Platform, PowerApps

Mocking Up Genius Bar’s Create Your Style App with PowerApps

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This is a short video where I am trying to mockup genius bar’s ‘Create your style’ app/feature. This can help you if you sell product bundles which work together as a bundle only for e,g, tablet and keyboard.

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PowerApps for Business Users & Consultants: Episode 8- Infusing AI in your PowerApps

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With this episode, I am concluding my ‘PowerApps for Business Users and Consultants’ series.

In this episode, we are going to look at using AI builder components in our PowerApps.

AI Builder currently has following components in preview:

  1. Business Card Reader
  2. Form Processor
  3. Text Classification
  4. Object Detection
  5. Prediction

We have focussed only on the following two and it’s business use cases:

  1. Business Card Reader
  2. Form Processor

Video here:

We have also talked about, what to do when your trial for AI expires:

Purchase/Extend

What error you see?

We have also talked about where to learn advanced PowerApps while I am thinking of my next series:

Shane Young’s Channel 

Brian Knight from Pragmatic

Thank you so much for all the love and support. I will be back with a new series soon.

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