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Power Platform, PowerApps, Quick Tips

Using Timer Control In PowerApps (with problem scenarios and Business use cases)

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This blog/video is part of my quick tip series. We are going to look at how we can force a screen to be visible to a user irrespective of the transition, in other words delay screen transition.

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Example Problem 1: if we want to Navigate to more than one screen back to back only the last screen mentioned in navigate formula is visible to the user; that means one navigate screen is skipped. for e.g. look at the formula below:

Select(Parent);SubmitForm(checkinform_1);ResetForm(checkinform_1);Navigate(Success,ScreenTransition.Fade);Navigate(lstMembers)

If you apply the above formula to your Power Apps, users will always end up seeing “Navigate(lstMembers)” and the success screen is skipped.

Example Problem 2: if we remove the last bit of the formula and have only one ‘navigate’ as shown below:

Select(Parent);SubmitForm(checkinform_1);ResetForm(checkinform_1);Navigate(Success,ScreenTransition.Fade)

if you apply the above formula, users will have to touch on the success screen somewhere to be able to see any other screen. (assuming success button in below screen will have navigate formula)

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Solution to both the example problems: First of all remove the last navigate from the formula and only have one navigate, shown below:

Select(Parent);SubmitForm(checkinform_1);ResetForm(checkinform_1);Navigate(Success,ScreenTransition.Fade)

Note: I am not saying you must use the exact same formula as above, you need to change the formula as per your need but only have one navigate in the formula.

Now on your success screen add a timer by going to Insert>>Input>>Timer

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Set AutoStart to true

Set the duration of the timer by clicking on the timer on screen (Completely on your requirements, for how long you want a user to see a screen)

1000=1 second 5000=5 seconds 30000=30 seconds

Set OnSelect to false

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Set the second navigation on your ‘TimerEnd’ property

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Now hide the timer, so your users can’t see it

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And all done, your users will now be navigated to the screen of choice without having to click anywhere.

Business Use Case: You want your users to see a success screen for ‘n’ seconds and then auto-redirect to a list or another form.

Video here:

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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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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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D365Champs, Power Platform, PowerApps

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

Hi Readers and Viewers

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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