The Power Platform prides itself on being low-code. While accurate, each solution requires different levels of coding. Power Automate, the low-code workflow creator, empowers developers to use variables when coding their business automations... Among the available variable types, array is a common data structure in many programming languages. For the uninitiated, arrays are essentially collections … Continue reading Power Automate: Working w/ Arrays
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Power Apps: Name Randomizer
The gift giving season is here. Keeping with the festivities, many organizations are hosting virtual raffles. There are plenty of online name randomizers available, but building and personalizing a Power App is also an option... The raffle names can pull from almost any data source, or sources, but for testing, these names are manually entered … Continue reading Power Apps: Name Randomizer
Power BI: What If… Citizen Insights?
Microsoft is on a mission to empower everyone through technology. Whilst on this journey, they crafted the Power Platform and gave the world Power BI. At that moment, Microsoft empowered thousands of citizen developers to gather insights using their respective business datasets. Citizens could create richer data visualizations and analyze more data from varying sources... … Continue reading Power BI: What If… Citizen Insights?
Power Apps: What If… Fusion Teams?
Many have forecasted a developer deficit for some time now. Whether or not the numbers are exaggerated, companies are looking for more and more qualified developers. This has become even more evident as every company is gradually becoming a tech company. Essentially, the specialized skills of computer scientists, software engineers, programmers, etc. are being outpaced … Continue reading Power Apps: What If… Fusion Teams?
Power Automate: Object Properties
Using connectors and actions, Power Automate can CRUD data from different sources. Often enough, the returned data is simple text and/ or numerical values, but can sometimes be complex data objects. Represented in a JSON format, the properties of these complex data objects can typically be retrieved with key-value pairs... E.g., storing SharePoint list items … Continue reading Power Automate: Object Properties
Power Platform x SharePoint – Approval Requests: Part III (Power BI)
The Power Platform is a Microsoft offering of tools to help organizations meet challenges effectively. Among these tools, there are some notable standouts: Power Automate – Create automated business processes.Power Apps – Create custom forms and portals.Power BI – Create rich charts, graphs, etc. With their powers combined, one could easily build in-house solutions using … Continue reading Power Platform x SharePoint – Approval Requests: Part III (Power BI)
Power Automate: SPOFile Share – Link Expiration
Someone asked me about anonymous sharing with expiring links. Although this could be configured at the tenant level, it isn't always set. As a workaround, how about a workflow to share a file, notify the recipient, then terminate the share? If you have a license for Power Automate, then you can create cloud Flows and … Continue reading Power Automate: SPOFile Share – Link Expiration
Power Platform x SharePoint – Approval Requests: Part II (Power Apps)
The Power Platform is a Microsoft offering of tools to help organizations meet challenges effectively. Among these tools, there are some notable standouts... Power Automate – Create automated business processes.Power Apps – Create custom forms and portals.Power BI – Create rich charts, graphs, etc. With their powers combined, one could easily build in-house solutions using … Continue reading Power Platform x SharePoint – Approval Requests: Part II (Power Apps)
Power Platform x SharePoint – Approval Requests: Part I (Power Automate)
The Power Platform is a Microsoft offering of tools to help organizations meet challenges effectively. Among these tools, there are some notable standouts... Power Automate - Create automated business processes.PowerApps - Create custom forms and portals.Power BI - Create rich charts, graphs, etc. With their powers combined, one could easily build in-house solutions using [SharePoint … Continue reading Power Platform x SharePoint – Approval Requests: Part I (Power Automate)
Power Apps: Cascading Columns (OOB)
Unlike [out-of-the-box] features, custom solutions incur a bit of technical debt. Though, OOB features often come with some nuances and quirks to be wary of... Scenario, use cascading columns to: Select a region,Select a state,Select a city, andView a dynamic list of artists. Again, SQL tables are great, but [SharePoint Online] lists are easy to … Continue reading Power Apps: Cascading Columns (OOB)
Power Apps: SPO Document Library Upload
Power Apps is a Microsoft offering to quickly build business apps using pre-built templates. The content of these business apps is housed in various data sources, but presented via data connectors. Data connectors are essential to these business apps... Noteworthy, the [SharePoint Online] connector is a common Power App connection. For many organizations, if they're … Continue reading Power Apps: SPO Document Library Upload
Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Recap
Microsoft just hosted Ignite 2019 in Orlando, FL. This was my first year attending and there was more than enough content. It's impossible to recap it all because it was impossible for me see everything: 25,000+ attendees 1,000+ sessions 300+ sponsors 200+ hands-on experiences I mean WHOA! Microsoft mission:"Empower every person and every organization on … Continue reading Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Recap
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