This is the second blog post in a series of four blog posts about Virtual Entites. In this one I will let you in on how to create a Custom Data Provider. As mentioned in my previous blog post, Virtual Entities provide a possibility to display and work with data (display in views, make advanced finds,… READ MORE
In the Part I of this tutorial we built the core game cycle for a Power Apps game “Little Helper”. In this part we’ll improve it in the following areas: restrict the game session to 1 minute; introduce high score logic; improve elf visual by adding a state when they hold a presents box. In order to… READ MORE
More than often we make use of the Ask in PowerApps property. You know, this one: When you use the PowerApps trigger you can hardly get past this property. Somewhere down the line it is almost certain that you will need to retrieve data from PowerApps via this property. Very often I encounter a configuration where the… READ MORE
Currently the only way to update records from a Power Apps Portals is to create or update data via an Entity Form, Web Form or a companion app. The companion app incurs a certain level of technical debt in terms of development of the app and management of where its hosted, such as an Azure… READ MORE
Within Azure, we have a free service called Azure Blueprints. Azure Blueprints helps us in simplify largescale Azure deployments by packaging key environment artifacts, such as Azure Resource Manager templates, role-based access controls, and policies, in a single blueprint definition. Easily apply the blueprint to new subscriptions and environments, and fine-tune control and management through… READ MORE
The Power Platform has a new member of the family: Power Virtual Agents! Power Virtual Agents, provide exceptional support to customers and employees with AI-driven virtual agents. Easily create and maintain bots with a no-code interface. If you aren’t familiar with bots, a bot is a computer program that utilizes conversational AI, a bot can conduct… READ MORE
Company-wide communications are tough to do well. Generally, most rely on mass emails that clutter inboxes of people who ignore them or even set up rules to remove them from their inbox. Larger companies have different office locations, which also have their share of communications which are probably more pertinent to their people than national… READ MORE
Recently Microsoft released some of the features, which were planned to be released on 2nd of December 2019, in their “new” product: Power Virtual Agent. One of them is “Authentication”. In this post I will help you to set up Azure Active Directory as an oAuth2.0 authentication endpoint. How does authentication in PVA works? Once… READ MORE
Data analysis expressions (DAX) is the data modelling language of Excel Power Pivot and Power BI. DAX language and DAX functions are the same in both Excel and Power BI and hence the knowledge is transferable between the two. The only difference is getting familiarised with the corresponding interfaces. This book is written to give you exactly that – hands-on practice. Inside you will find explanation of the concepts, sample… READ MORE
