Power Apps: Portals now Power Pages in Power Platform

Why? From all the Microsoft Build keynote announcements regarding Power Platform, Announcing Microsoft Power Pages: Build secure, low-code websites | Microsoft Power Pages stuck with me the most. What? Power Apps Portals has become (or depending on your perspective: always has been) so much more than "just another type of Power Apps". This is now … Continue reading Power Apps: Portals now Power Pages in Power Platform

Power Platform: verify Current Value of an Environment Variable in a Managed Solution

Why? Microsoft has improved the Environment Variable experience a lot since my last blog posts on this topic (Power Platform: update Current Value of an Environment Variable in a Managed Solution). Even the documentation has a lot more details now (Use environment variables in solutions - Power Apps | Microsoft Docs). However there is still … Continue reading Power Platform: verify Current Value of an Environment Variable in a Managed Solution

Dataverse: use Excel Online of Model Driven Power Apps

Why? Recently I had to import 9.000 records into a Dataverse table. I wanted to use the Excel Online option of Model Driven Power Apps in Dataverse. I like this option because that is one of the options that a "simple" end user has when using a Model Driven Power App. It is easy to … Continue reading Dataverse: use Excel Online of Model Driven Power Apps

Power Platform: export Solutions with an Azure DevOps Pipeline Template

Why? In one of my previous posts Power Platform: export a Solution with an Azure DevOps Pipeline, I shared a straight forward Pipeline to export a Power Platform solution. For one solution this is fine. However if you want to do this multiple times, duplicating the whole Pipeline becomes inefficient. Let's see if we can … Continue reading Power Platform: export Solutions with an Azure DevOps Pipeline Template

Power Platform: import a Solution with an Azure DevOps Pipeline

Why? In the previous post Power Platform: export a Solution with an Azure DevOps Pipeline ยป Knowhere365, I showed how to export all variants of a Power Platform Solution to a Git Repo. We are going to use the output of that Pipeline to import the solution to another Power Platform Environment. What? In this … Continue reading Power Platform: import a Solution with an Azure DevOps Pipeline

Power Platform: export a Solution with an Azure DevOps Pipeline

Why? In the previous post Power Platform: connect an Azure DevOps Pipeline ยป Knowhere365, I showed how to connect an Azure DevOps Pipeline to the Power Platform. Now we are going to let the Pipeline export a Power Platform Solution. What? In this post, I am going to let the Azure DevOps Pipeline export a … Continue reading Power Platform: export a Solution with an Azure DevOps Pipeline

Power Platform: connect an Azure DevOps Pipeline

Why? In the previous post Power Platform: setting up an Azure DevOps Pipeline ยป Knowhere365, I have setup a Starter Pipeline in Azure DevOps. Now we will connect the Azure DevOps Pipeline to the Power Platform yet. What? In this post, I am going to connect the Azure DevOps Pipeline to the Power Platform using … Continue reading Power Platform: connect an Azure DevOps Pipeline

Power Platform: Solutions and Azure DevOps Pipelines

Why? Recently I had the honor to work with one of the biggest Dynamics Partners in the Netherlands. In their daily business it is common practice to use Azure DevOps. With Pipelines they manage their different Dynamics 365 environments with as less manual work as possible. Especially in builds and releases, Power Platform Azure DevOps … Continue reading Power Platform: Solutions and Azure DevOps Pipelines

Power Apps: Dataverse Choice Column filter from Combobox

Why? A few Posts ago (Power Apps: Get Dataverse Option Set ID as well as Label), I showed that working with a Choice Column in Dataverse (previously known as an Option Set in the Common Data Service) could be challenging.... Mainly thanks to all the functionality that exists behind these "complex objects". Functionalities like multi-language … Continue reading Power Apps: Dataverse Choice Column filter from Combobox

Power Automate: compare Items in multiple Arrays without Apply to each

Why? In one of my previous posts (Power Automate: combine values from an Array without an Apply to each ยป Knowhere365), we saw that we can combine values from an array without an Apply to each loop. With the same type of approach, we can also compare items in two different arrays. Should we want … Continue reading Power Automate: compare Items in multiple Arrays without Apply to each