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Introducing Brian T Jackett: PowerApps and Microsoft Flow Social Media Sample

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We are happy to introduce Mr. Brian T Jackett from https://briantjackett.com . Brian is a Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft specializing in SharePoint development / administration and PowerShell for over 9 years. Brian enjoys giving back to the community through giving presentations, planning and volunteering at conferences, maintaining this SharePoint/.Net centric blog, and contributing to the SharePoint Twitterverse. He also holds several Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) for SharePoint related technologies. He authored this blog to walk us through a scenario for gathering social media input and working with that data in various components. This includes Azure SQL, Azure web apps, Azure API apps, and Custom APIs.

Featured Video: Office Mechanics Extensibility Options in Dynamics 365

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Luis Camino from the Dynamics 365 team joins Jeremy Chapman to explain high value business extensibility options for Dynamics 365 on this Office Mechanics Video.

Introducing the 2019 Power Platform World Tour featuring PowerApps, Flow and Power BI

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Introducing the 2019 Power Platform World Tour featuring PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and Power BI content from Microsoft team members, MVPs, Champions, and Subject Matter Experts. Power Platform World Tour will bring together thousands of users in cities all around the world to learn and network to work smarter, streamline processes, and advance their skill set. […]

Scenario 2: Collect customer feedback in SharePoint after order delivery

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In today’s digital world, organizations use and work with several applications for multiple different reasons. Often, data is stored and maintained in different applications and exchange of data…

Display names enter Preview for Canvas apps

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Have you noticed that when you create a custom field in the Common Data Service for Apps that all the fields are all prefixed with cr5ca_ or some other random string and spaces are stripped? …

Extending Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations with PowerApps Blog Series

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Extending Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations with PowerApps

Retain your resources and data in Trial environments

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You can retain the data, apps, and other resources from a Trial environment which expires in 30 days and import it in another environment.

Announcing the NEW PowerApps User Group!

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History was made at the recent Microsoft Business Application Summit where we launched the PowerApps User Group and hosted our first PowerApps User Group meeting! It was an event to remember, opening exciting opportunities to network and expand adoption!

Themes update adds new Office themes and contrast compliant colors

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Part of an apps identity, look and feel is its theme. Not only the colors that are chosen, but also where they are applied. Each design language is slightly different. The existing PowerApps standard…

Power Apps Code Review Tool

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I am happy to share the Power Apps Code Review tool which uses the Power Apps Language Library to process an canvas app in order to extract many useful information used in an app review

Formula Bar Changes

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The standard Canvas formula bar is better than ever, including more natural Enter and Tab key behavior and a scrollbar. The previously experimental formula bar is being retired.

New in ISV Studio: Read-only access!

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A new feature in ISV Studio now allows publishers to give more users access to ISV Studio without also giving access to the publishing process in Partner Center!

Microsoft Dataverse Custom API General Availability

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Dataverse Custom API has reached general availability status. Dataverse Custom API is a new code-first approach that provides developers a better way to create APIs in Dataverse to perform operations on the server.

New in the CoE Starter Kit: Review the impact of DLP policy changes

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We are excited to introduce you to the DLP Editor – a new app part of the Center of Excellence Starter Kit. The DLP Editor is a tool you can use to observe the impact of an existing policy or updated/new policy changes you want to make.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Preview) app for Windows comes with offline access in Public Preview

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The Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Preview) app for Windows is now available in Public Preview in the Microsoft Store. This new application can be installed on Windows devices and allows licensed Power Apps or Dynamics users to run model-driven apps that have been enabled for their businesses with offline.

Owner, Customer, and Regarding for canvas apps

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Common Data Service polymorphic lookups are now available from canvas apps.  You can now: Access, set, and filter on the Owner field of any record. Access and set the Company Name field (a Customer data type) of the Contacts entity. Access and set the Regarding field of activity entities such as Faxes, Phone Calls, Email Messages, […]

Announcing general availability of Solution Checker

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Today we have reached a key milestone, and we are happy to announce the general availability of Solution Checker.  Since December, when the PowerApps team rolled out the Solution Checker feature into Public preview, we have seen a great uptake in usage with 100’s of customers installing the checker, inspecting their code, and fixing key performance […]

Display names and GUIDs for Canvas apps graduate

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Last fall we introduced display names and GUIDs for Canvas apps as Preview features.  Both have been well received with very few issues and very few authors turning these features off.  With our latest release (3.19032) these features are now permanent. To refresh your memory, display names allow the use of friendly names such as […]

Sharepoint Online document libraries now supported

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SharePoint Online document libraries are now available in canvas apps. Document libraries show up from the data sources panel when you select a SharePoint Online list as a data source. You can create experiences for your end users to view a listing of files that come from a SharePoint document library. Document libraries have a unique icon […]

Extend the power of WYSIWYG form authoring to quick create and quick view forms

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The new form designer now supports authoring quick create and quick view forms. All the beneficial features of the new form designer such as WYSIWYG preview, enhanced fields pane, quick-access property pane, tree view and more now extend to quick create and quick view form authoring to help enable a rich and productive experience.

Island Council of Tenerife organizes community events using the Power Platform

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Look at how the Insular Management for Sport, Culture and Leisure (IDECO), a company of the Island Council of Tenerife, the governing body for the Canary Islands, is using PowerApps for Ansina, their program of sociocultural dynamization and social intervention tailored towards the elderly.

Power Apps Top 10: innovation areas that are reshaping app development

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As we open Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference, it’s a good time to reflect on the factors that have propelled the staggering momentum behind Power Apps, and share some details of what the future looks like as the service matures. Whether you’re a seasoned #PowerAddict or just starting out with the platform, here’s the definitive “top 10” list of major innovation areas and trends to watch as Power Apps scales across organizations globally.

Deeply integrate your apps in Microsoft Teams with context variables

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With Teams context variables, you now have access to information like which channel, team, or group your app has been embedded in. With that information, you can now build apps that automatically filter down to relevant content, pre-populate fields, or respond to the users Microsoft Teams theme. Additionally, you can use this information to support deep linking to pages within your app.

Hospital Emergency Response solution: A Microsoft Power Platform solution for healthcare emergency response

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As the COVID-19 crisis escalated earlier this month, we released a Power Platform solution for managing communications across an organization.