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Invoices and accounting with model-driven Power Apps
A simple yet powerful model-driven Power App making the invoicing and accounting tortures for my micro enterprise a little more bearable! Key functionality includes record work items, generate invoices, track payments, capture expenses and produce financial reports.
Quick View forms with edit permissions - introducing the Form Component Control
Quick View forms have been disappointingly average since CRM 2013. I’m excited to be introducing the better sibling of the Quick View form that lets you see and edit data from other tables from a single form - it’s called ‘Form Component Control’. *catchy name pending*
Flip the switch: two option (yes/no) fields in model-driven Power Apps
Lets look at how the humble two option field can be better visualised and used in more creative ways in your model-driven Power Apps. We do this by using Custom Controls out of the box and PCF components. Plus a bonus feature (although technically not a two option field behind the scenes) shows a really smart example of how you can you a flip switch to set a timestamp, two visual benefits in one field!
Sticky notes are dead: digital Kanban boards for Dynamics and Power Apps
Unfortunately the 21st century world of co-located, socially distanced teams the traditional Kanban board in all its post-it note glory is a thing of the past. Lets look at how we can use custom controls and Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) for model-driven Power Apps to help our users and teams to better manage their workloads.
Going off-the-grid: PCF views & sub-grids in model driven apps
Exploring some Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) themed grids & sub-grids. Featuring just a few of my favourite picks from PCF Gallery, plus some tips and tricks to get them working. This post features smart grids, attachment grids, maps and hover cards.
Gridlock: custom control views & sub-grids in model driven apps
Exploring more unified interface custom controls in model-driven apps. Focusing on sub-grid and view custom controls which are available natively. There is already a wealth of functionality available' out of the box', you just need to know where to find it. This post will cover Editable grids, Nested grids and Reference panels.
Take your pick: option sets in model driven apps
Exploring the range of options for option sets with the new unified interface and Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) for model-driven apps. A simple way to boost user experience and interface to a whole new level.
Attractive Activity Calendars in Model-Driven Apps
Lets look at how we can use out of the box custom controls and nifty site map navigation to create a one stop calendar for you and your team to see at a glance all the activity going on with your customers and prospects. So you can keep tabs on conversations easier in a virtual world where it’s easy to have no idea who is meeting who from their respective solo home offices.
Power Apps & PCF for social media analytics
The final part of our deep dive into the social media monitoring model-driven app we will focus on how we display the data to our users in meaningful and enjoyable ways. Plus how we can extend the visual experience with Power Apps Component Framework
From Azure Queues to model-driven Power Apps for social media analytics
The second step in creating an immersive, AI enriched social media monitoring and analysis model driven app. Retrieving messages from an Azure queue which is full of AI enriched data and displaying it to our users in meaningful and enjoyable ways
Azure, JavaScript & PCF: Level Up Social Media Monitoring & Analysis
An immersive, AI enriched social media monitoring and analysis model driven app to monitor any Twitter hashtags or mentions of your choice! Built on the Power Platform, integrated with Azure, leveraging JavaScript & Power Apps Component Framework (PCF), visualised in a Power App!
VIDEO: When Power Platform and JavaScript worlds collide
Integrating the web platform with Model Driven Apps can seem quite daunting, these platforms can seem so big and complex. Never fear, that's where the Power Platform can help. With a few bits of integration, we can pull data from social media sites, plug it into a web app, enrich the data with Azure powered artificial intelligence and surface the data back up to Model Driven Apps for a user friendly (and enjoyable) social media monitoring.
VIDEO: Virtual Quizzes (#PPPQ) and Community Engagement with Power Platform
The story so far on how the virtual Power Platform Pub Quiz initiative #PPPQ is leveraging the power of the platform to run live virtual quiz events featuring trivia questions across the power platform stack. t’s a true showcase of how the Microsoft Community & Power Platform come together to help us learn, engage and connect with each other despite being physically apart.
Microsoft Business Applications and Power Platform - Powered by Azure
They say a picture tells a thousand words and I’ve had enough of waving my hands around trying to explain what the power platform is and how it fits into the Microsoft ecosystem. So I made my own diagram - I hope you will find this as useful as I have!
Event Check-in App for Dynamics Marketing
Dynamics Marketing allows us to automatically send out unique QR codes to registered event attendees. In this article I will show you how Power Apps & Power Automate can be leveraged to create and event check-in app so we can say goodbye to paper lists and post event painful data entry.