New Navigation for Power Apps Maker Portal

If you have launched the preview maker portal in the last week or so, you might have seen some big changes in the navigation and the ability to customize this to fit the needs of the maker. In this post, I will demonstrate some of the new highlights of the new preview portal (currently in Preview), and discuss some of the benefits.

Visualizing the Notifications

he ability to send notifications to the user (as In-App Notification, Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Teams). In this post, I will demonstrate how to show the notifications that have been sent to the user on the Contact record as a virtual dataset pcf control.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2023 Release Wave 1 Plans

Yesterday (January 25, 2023), Microsoft release their plans for Microsoft Dynamics 2023 Release Wave 1. These release plans are available in various formats and can be accessed on the Microsoft Learn site, the Microsoft Release Planner or can be downloaded as PDFs.

Virtual table creation in Maker Portal

As part of the 2023 Wave 1 Release Plan, Microsoft simplified the process of connecting to external data and creating virtual tables from within the Maker portal. This process makes creating these connections very easy, and results can be seen in a manner of minutes. Configuration is now at the fingertips of citizen developers as well.

Calculation of Date Time Difference in Formula Columns (Preview)

Formula Columns have been in Public Preview since September 2022 and are supposed to be released to GA in March 2023 as part of the Power Platform 2022 release wave 2 plan. I have been working with formula columns for some time now, and although in preview have found this to be not only a great substitution to Calculated columns, but also provides much added functionality.

Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services Trial Failure

When we need to create Proof of Concepts, test products that we need to implement for our projects and or provide demos to our clients, at many times consultants and even partners use demo environments and products provided by Microsoft (and other organizations) in order to assist them in these cases.

Microsoft announces the General Availability (GA) of Power Pages

Last week on 10/12 at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Power Pages. Microsoft Power Pages joined the Power Platform family of products earlier this year as a standalone product. For those who are familiar with Power Apps Portals, the two products are not in yet in parity, and I assume that in time Power Apps Portals will be phased out and completely replaced by Power Pages.

Merging Solutions from multiple instances

Have you worked on a project with multiple teams where you need to update the changes from all instances into a single integration instance? There are multiple options for doing this, some manually and some automated, but in this post I will discuss a little hack (using Azure DevOps for deployment) that can be used to deploy the separate solutions into a single solution in the target instance.