Business Applications, Power Platform Admin and Governance, Uncategorized

CoE Starter Kit: Efficient Testing Strategy for Inactivity Processes – Admin Simulations for Maker Clean-Up Approvals

As a Power Platform Admin, I would like to efficiently test the CoE Starter Kit Inactivity Processes, so I understand how it works and confirm it meets my requirements without spamming users and makers. Olena Introduction During our initial setup of the CoE Starter Kit, we encountered difficulties in finding a way to disable notifications… Continue reading CoE Starter Kit: Efficient Testing Strategy for Inactivity Processes – Admin Simulations for Maker Clean-Up Approvals

Canvas, PowerApps, Uncategorized

Canvas App: Office365Users.Search UserV2 not working, but V1 does

Scenario: Currently, I am working on the New Environment Request app. As a part of the solution, we add the environment business Owner which as we know is different from the Owner field populated by default with the name of the user who physically spins the environment. Therefore, on the form, we allow a user… Continue reading Canvas App: Office365Users.Search UserV2 not working, but V1 does

Power Platform Admin and Governance

Power Platform DLP Policy: blocking HTTP connectors won’t impact child Flows

Previously known issue https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/create-child-flows#known-issues “If you block the HTTP Request connector via data loss prevention (DLP), child flows are also blocked because child flows are implemented using the HTTP connector. Work is underway to separate DLP enforcement for child flows so that they are treated like other cloud flows.” Objective As Power Platform admin, I… Continue reading Power Platform DLP Policy: blocking HTTP connectors won’t impact child Flows

Business Applications, Power Automate, Power Platform

Generating simple and complex documents with just Power Platform, no add-ons.

In the consulting world, we get the document generation requirements for most medium to large-size projects. Traditionally, for Dynamics 365 projects we used document generation add-ons, like Document Core Pack or Xpertdoc to generate documents. However, it's unnecessary in the world of Power Platform where all requirements could be addressed with just Power Platform. I've… Continue reading Generating simple and complex documents with just Power Platform, no add-ons.

Uncategorized

Power App Portal Web API – fighting lookups

We will start with the 100% helpful Microsoft docs articles: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/portals/web-api-overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/portals/web-api-perform-operations I haven't had any issues with simple type fields but I stuck with lookups. Remembering my first time exploring the portal Web API, I didn't run into this issue. Or maybe it worked slightly differently during that times. There are some articles in… Continue reading Power App Portal Web API – fighting lookups