The database is a core part of any type of application. The database scheme is constantly changing during the application development phase. It is important to deploy the database changes while deploying the application code to a different instance, such as dev, QA, stage, or production. However, manually deploying database changes is a tedious process. By […]
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Error Handling with the Patch function in Canvas Apps
Benefits of the Forms control The Power Apps canvas apps Forms control allows you to spin up a complete form and modify fields shown in almost no time at all. The Forms control also has two properties, OnSuccess and OnFailure. These properties make for very simple error handling because you can easily tell your application […]
How to Get Started With a Power Platform COE
The following is the fifth and final in a series of blogs about how a center of excellence can help you unlock the potential of your people and Power Platform. Throughout this series, we have explained how Power Platform enables your makers and why and how a COE enables these makers. Now all you need […]
Applying Power Platform to the Healthcare Industry – Part 3: Creating the Front End With Power Apps
This mini-series is about using Power Platform to help streamline healthcare providers’ work and increase patient safety. Part 2 of this mini-series covered using Power Automate to extract lab result values from a response object and used them to check which entity conditions are true and send them to the Power App. Part 1 covered […]
Use Power BI to view your Smartthings devices
Intro This is more of a proof of concept to show that you can read from custom and not-often-used data sources into Power BI. As you go through this small showcase/tutorial, I encourage you to think about what type of data would benefit from you being able to look at it in a cohesive dashboard. […]
Applying Power Platform to the Healthcare Industry – Part 2: Using Power Automate for Backend Logic
This mini series is about using Power Platform to help streamline the work of healthcare providers and increase patient safety. Part 1 of this mini series covered how to set up your database – creating entity tables to store the list of directions and the list of conditions, and relating the two tables with a […]
Power Platform Language Standardization with Power FX #msignite
As apart of the Microsoft Ignite event today, it was announced that the next chapter for low-code development over the next 24 months will position Power FX as the standard language for Power Platform. Thus streamlining the platform to utilize a single syntax for Canvas application-based development. Standardizing the “code” language of Power Platform not […]
Applying Power Platform to the Healthcare Industry – Part 1: Setting Up Entities in Dataverse
This series is about using Power Platform to help streamline the work of healthcare providers and increase patient safety. In this tutorial there will be 2 entity tables – one for storing all the directions and one for storing the condition sets that each direction will be pulled by. The key to joining these two tables […]
Applying Power Platform to the Healthcare Industry
The purpose of this miniseries is to build an app for healthcare providers to be able to view a patient’s lab results and immediately see a list of next steps or directions for patient care. To do this, we will build a Power App that takes in the patient’s name and displays that patient’s lab […]
New Microsoft Security and Compliance Certifications (Feb 2021)
This morning I was sipping on my cup of coffee and browsing through Microsoft’s Learn page when I stumbled upon a few new certifications and exams around Microsoft Security and Compliance! I haven’t seen any announcements around these new certifications but I was intrigued nonetheless. Today, we’ll discuss the new beta exams and corresponding certifications […]
How Should You Structure Your Power Platform COE?
The following is the fourth in a series of blogs about how a center of excellence can help you unlock the potential of your people and Power Platform. So far in this series, we have discussed how Power Platform enables your makers to improve business processes by developing low-code applications and how a COE enables […]
Permission-driven canvas app navigation component
The case for permission-based navigation Many app stakeholders want to lock down parts of their canvas apps so that certain screens are only accessible to a subset of application users. Configuration of these permissions can be achieved a variety of ways, including security roles, CDS data, or other logic based on the current user. If […]