I want my students to submit weekly reflections, but it also needs to be easy for me to collect those. My solution is a Microsoft Form for each week, an Excel Workbook in OneDrive, and Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow) to glue the two together. First, I created a Microsoft Form for each week of class. I used the survey-style… READ MORE
If you were thinking that Power Apps Canvas Apps and Dataverse for Teams Canvas Apps are just the same – but with a different license and container – well whilst it is mostly true, there is a very big difference:Dataverse for Teams uses a completely different set of Out of the Box controls. They are based on the Fluent UI library.This post… READ MORE
In the Power Apps team blog there was an announcement of the GA availability of Geospatial Features for Canvas apps. In short, we now have a preview of two new controls powered by Azure Maps: Address Input control which suggests the correct address based on partial street names and autocompletes attributes like city, postal code, country,… READ MORE
“How can I display number of days between today’s date and another date in a SharePoint column without Power Automate daily updates?” Calculating a number of days between a date and today’s date is not simple in SharePoint. You probably use calculated column for that, but calculated column can’t work with today’s date directly. It… READ MORE
What is Power Apps? Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, connectors and data platforms that gives a rapid application development environment. Now that’s a mouthful. Let’s break this down. Development environment – It’s an environment for you to develop applications. Data platform – It’s a way you can connect to different sources of… READ MORE
Power Automate is used to automatize actions, it therefore needs to connect to services. Most of them can be accessed using the default connectors without providing any secret or password, but sometimes, you need to operate the authentication yourself. The most common example would be calling Microsoft GraphAPI using the HTTP connector. In this case… READ MORE
Note: To watch this webinar you must login to your ESPC Community Account by clicking the blue banner above the video. If you do not have an account, you can sign up here. Before our world changed drastically in 2020 due to COVID-19 many organizations were unaware of Microsoft Teams while others were either using… READ MORE
I have created two new PowerShell functions for Granting or Revoking permission on items in the Power BI Report Catalog. These two will be the probably be the last two functions I create for Power BI Report Server for a little while. I’ll be working on SSAS cmdlets for the next week or two. RECAP… READ MORE
In past we have seen how we can embed chatbots on a Power Apps portals or a web page using client-side code and custom styling. We also looked at how to add a chatbot on a WordPress site but all of these bots were created where the chatbot did not initiate the conversation but instead will wait for… READ MORE
In SharePoint Online, whenever you create a library and turn on “Require check-out” before editing documents option or not, users are able to open files for collaboration in browsers or in their local Office clients. When they do that, the file is getting locked from access that could lead to its metadata changes. If you… READ MORE
