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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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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’

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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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PowerApps & Flow User Group App for Leaders, Hosts, Organisers and Coordinators

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As User Group organisers, it becomes difficult for us to track the attendance of participants mostly due to the format of the meeting. In our last week’s UG we were prepared to break the ice and created an app to check in attendees.

Following is what you can do with the app:

  1. Register attendees as members
  2. Update member details
  3. Check In attendees
  4. Draw Raffle (if and when it’s available)

What can you get out of it:

  1. Track the attendance of your members
  2. If members are not regular, send them a survey for what they want to see
  3. Send them a FormsPro survey to get feedback
  4. Keep member details up to date
  5. Instead of drawing raffle the conventional way, use PowerApps

Screens:

Home

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Register Participant

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Update Details and Check In

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Note: Check In form is hidden, so members don’t have to fill in date, UG and their name again

Members List

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Draw Raffle

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Note: Shuffle formula and collection is used for Raffle draw

Data Source: OneDrive (Excel Web)

Tables used: Registered Members and Checked In Members to draw raffle

If you’re a User Group leader and want to use this app; you don’t really have to make any changes except for the connection and start using it. I have uploaded it on github. More instructions on there:

https://github.com/diyd365/UserGroupApp

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PowerApps for Business Users & Consultants: Episode 7- Inserting MS Flow as an action in PowerApps

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In this episode we will see, how to insert a flow in a PowerApp without having to connect the app with any data source. Some key points below:

  • No data source required for your PowerApp
  • Just create labels and Text inputs on the screen
  • Add a flow
  • Push data to your desired source like excel, sharepoint, D365, CDS

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