Introduction Whenever we want to extract part of a string, a common question comes to mind -how do we achieve this? In Power Automate, previously we used to write some expression manually like split, substring and so on. But now, in the recent update of Power Automate, it now gives you prebuilt actions for text/string… Read More »
Introduction In our last blog, we saw how we could create Power Automate Flow to send an email using the Email Template. We used “SendEmailFromTemplate” action to send a single email. Now, in this blog, we will see how we can send bulk email messages using the Email Template. Let us say, we want to… Read More »
Introduction During an online conference with Power Platform experts, a technical enthusiast asked the forum, “What options do we have for emailing using the template on specific events/actions in Dynamics CRM?” A panelist answered, “We have a classic workflow with ‘Send Email’ and ‘Use Template’ action or a Plugin with ‘InstantiateTemplate’ and ‘SendEmail’ requests for… Read More »
With our Azure function ready in the earlier post. We now look at the steps to create a custom connector for this Azure function. Do remember, we have enabled AAD authentication for our Azure function. The APP registration provided while enabling AAD authentication was set for multi-tenant authentication. While we have an easy way to… Read More »
Custom logic has until now and still being developed mostly as plugin or workflow assemblies. If you wanted to extend the default behavior of the platform on certain actions like create or update record, you developed either a plugin or workflow and then had to use the Plugin Registration Tool to register this on the… Read More »
Introduction When it comes to Customer Service, the SLA plays a very crucial role to track performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). With the Dynamics 365 CRM web client interface, we used to configure KPIs with traditional workflow actions when SLA is violated like send an email to agents if SLA is failed or warned.… Read More »
The earlier versions of the D365 Connector or the Common Data Service connector provided separate triggers for each of the CRUD actions like Create, Update and Delete. The latest version of the connector Common Data Service (Current) which is the one we should be using moving forward in most cases provides a single trigger as… Read More »
Back in the old days, we had to write custom plugins to auto-generate code values to automatically assign sequential numbers to records being created. To overcome this issue of having to generate unique values at all times through custom code and to support the auto generation of a codes based on a given seed and… Read More »
Microsoft Power Automate Flows are the recommended path forward for extending business logic that traditionally was extended using Plugins and Workflows. For code execution trigger we were only offered message as an option and in case of the update message a step forward to choose the fields that need to be updated for the plugin… Read More »
Introduction Earlier, we have seen how to pass parameter from Power Apps to Power Automate. In today’s blog, we will explore how to pass the Collection from Power Apps (Canvas App) to Power Automate. A collection in Power Apps is used to store data. You can explore more about Collection in Power Apps here. Now,… Read More »