Category: Azure Development

  • Save Dataverse Notes to Azure Blob Storage and Display on PowerApps Portals (original @curious_mira)

    Last month I posted the article describing our exercise with the Azure Blob for the portal notes. The Part 1 is here: https://msolenacrm.blog/2021/07/20/azure-storage-integration-for-power-apps-portals/ This is the second part I advertised created by Mira and all implementation credits go to her as well 😎: “I have been Exploring with Olena (https://msolenacrm.blog/) how to enable the azure…

  • We are exploring OCR capabilities for invoice processing. This is the article which may help you to understand how it work if you want to train a custom model to use it then with Power Automate. Do you want your own OCR which costs less than a coffee? All credits go to Nick Grischenko. https://microsoftbusinessappsfordummies.wordpress.com/2021/07/21/simple-azure-invoice-ocr-tutorial-that-costs-less-than-a-coffee/

  • Azure Functions in Power Platform multiple environments

    Working with real customer’s deployment requires managing multiple environments – at least Test and Production or additionally a Dev environment. One of the common patterns we use in the solutions is to use Azure Functions as an effective, serverless extension of the point-and-click Power Automate flows. This pattern utilises a Custom Connector created to embed the function call and parameters into…

  • Download file from Azure BLOB storage inside Dynamics 365 Plugin or custom WF activity

    Problem: Microsoft Labs AttachmentManagement solution doesn’t allow to download attachments via plugin for files,synced to Azure BLOB storage . Solution: download BLOB, using a custom plugin or custom WF activity. Mind mapping(please don’t try any of this, it doesn’t work): first, I found this link: https://community.dynamics.com/365/b/heralddyncrm/archive/2018/05/27/upload-and-download-files-in-azure-blob-using-c It worked perfectly while I was unit testing. Then I…

  • I have a list of emails, which are UPNs (user principal name), which I am using in a query filter to retrieve an information for Azure AD users. Honestly, I was exploring, trying to figure out the best way to query, knowing that IN {} statement is not supported for the filter. What is supported? Also,…