Category: Power Platform

Enable Choices Column / Multi Select Optionset in Power Apps Portal

Choices column is now supported in Portal and is GA in 2021 Release Wave 2 from Feb 15, 2022: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2021wave2/power-apps-portals/portals-support-choices-multi-select-columns-dataverse However, you may find it not working, and there is no official document about how to enable it. The solution is to create a Site Setting record to enable the feature: Name: Control/EnableChoicesValue: true And … Continue reading Enable Choices Column / Multi Select Optionset in Power Apps Portal →

Modern Web Resource Workspace in Dynamics 365 – Part 1: TypeScript

Web Resources are essential components when you want to extend front-end functionalities in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement. Where HTML, CSS, and Images are used to design the view layer facing users, JavaScript is used to implement the logic layer behind the view. Those components are the most common and basic in Web and Front-end development. … Continue reading Modern Web Resource Workspace in Dynamics 365 – Part 1: TypeScript →

Hiding Power BI report filter pane from report viewers in Power Apps Portal embedded report

Filter pane is a familiar functionality when building reports in Power BI Desktop and using reports in Power BI Service. Hiding filter pane is often a requirement when you want to prevent users from changing filter conditions and save spaces for visualizations. It is straight forward and easily be done by turning off the filter … Continue reading Hiding Power BI report filter pane from report viewers in Power Apps Portal embedded report →

Sync Office 365 User Photos to CRM Users with Flow

Background I got a requirement that the client needs user profile photos in Office 365 to be synced to CRM Users. It is Dynamics 365 CE Online, and users don't change profile photo often. There is no OOB way to achieve it so I need to develop custom synchronization. The workflow First of all, I … Continue reading Sync Office 365 User Photos to CRM Users with Flow →

Convert Word to PDF in Dynamics 365 CE Online with Flow (Part 3)

Today I will show you how we can put the Flow we created in the previous part into action. You should complete the workflow to Generate a Word document from a template in this post before we can proceed. Our goal is to convert the Word document to a PDF document and attach it to a … Continue reading Convert Word to PDF in Dynamics 365 CE Online with Flow (Part 3) →

Convert Word to PDF in Dynamics 365 CE Online with Flow (Part 2)

I discussed about advantages and disadvantages of different approaches in part 1. I'll cover how we can achieve our goal with Flow in this part. We have setup the workflow to generate Word document in this post. Now we need to create to convert the Word document to PDF document and attach the PDF to … Continue reading Convert Word to PDF in Dynamics 365 CE Online with Flow (Part 2) →