If you want to work on your Power Apps skills but are stuck as you do not have your own Dev environment where you can practice then below are the steps which will help you create a "Developer" environment using "Power Apps Community Plan" where you can practice. This environment is only for building your…
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Resolved: Property not fetching data in Custom Control
Have you ever encountered an issue where you have multiple properties configured in your Control Manifest file and you configured it correctly in Model-Driven app. But for some reason you do not get the value from the field that was bound in the configuration. For example I had my Control Manifest file as below. <?xml…
Getting started with Power Virtual Agent
Microsoft recently released a tool called "Power Virtual Agent" that will help us create a bot without writing any code. With this release I am sure lot of citizen developers were happy - more addition to #NoCodeLowCode tools. This tool is still in preview at the moment. To begin with Power Virtual Agent, you have…
PCF Custom Control Builder
Now with PowerApps Component Framework for model-driven apps and PowerApps CLI generally available, I think the XrmToolbox plugin PCF Custom Control Builder will come very handy. This tool enables you to build Custom Controls with ease where you do not need to write the CLI commands. Most of the commands are consolidated into one button…
Upload file from Canvas App to SharePoint
I had run into a requirement where user wanted to upload a document in CRM but implement a naming format for the file uploaded. Things got little tricky as one Account can have multiple files based on a it's relationship with a particular custom entity and the documents should be uploaded and available on Account…
Configuring Password Reset in D365 Portal using Azure AD B2C
Previously I have written a detailed blog on how to setup Azure AD B2C authentication on CRM Portals and also have a post that lists any possible issues you might face during the setup and how to resolve them. Now, let's look at how to setup Password Reset on CRM Portals that use Azure AD…
Resolved: Portal Authentication error using Azure B2C
If you have already configured the Portal to use Azure AD B2C but still getting error; something like shown below then follow along to know how to debug and resolve it. There could be several reasons and lets understand what happens behind the scene that will help debug the problem. When a new user signs…
Configuring D365 Portal Authentication using Azure AD B2C
Well most of us have been configuring or rather not doing any configuration with authentication and have been using local authentication. But believe me if we spend more time configuring the Portal Authentication to use Azure AD B2C you will get more secure and more user management capabilities. First thing you will need is Azure…
Create custom action cards in D365 CE
Today I tried my hands on creating a custom action cards in Dynamics CE using Microsoft Flow. This feature is still in Preview First navigate to "Settings" and under "System" find and click "Sales Insights". This will take you to AI setup screen. Before we start creating custom cards you may want to enable "Assistant"…
Create Custom Controls using PowerApp Component Framework
So many new features came up in April release but the one I was very excited about was creating custom controls using PowerApp Component Framework. If you are not sure what custom control is please read this article. I am documenting my experience of developing the custom controls (end-to-end) in this blog. Prepare your development…
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