Power Apps Mobile App: Mobile Offline Capability for Model-Driven Apps

Mobile offline synchronization capability is one the common requirements these days. Although our network and internet connections have improved a lot in last few years, there are always few scenarios like internet disconnection or weak signals due to which our device might not be able to connect to server proper and hence customers would love to have some basic functionalities when they are temporarily offline like some minor updates, quick…

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Add Power BI embedded as System Dashboard in Model-Driven Apps

Both clients and developers were waiting for this feature ever since the Power BI embedded personal dashboards were introduced in the Dynamics 365 and Model-Driven apps. Till now, we were using various tricks to embed a power bi report and dashboard in as a system dashboard but finally, we have the out-of-the-box feature to do the same. Power BI embedded dashboard feature enables developers to add a reference to an…

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Power Platform AI Builder: Category Classification AI Model

Well, whether it's a small or giant industry, text data is increasing exponentially for these organizations. This data carries valuable information that when extracted and acted on helps us provide better products and services to our customers. Category classification is one of the fundamental natural language processing (NLP) challenges. With category classification, you can identify text entries with tags to be used for things like: Sentiment analysisSpam detectionCustomer request routingOther…

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Power Apps: Use Monitor to debug your published app

Whether it's a Canvas Power App or any other technology, we always have challenges when it comes to reproducing and debugging an application in a Production Environment. There could be any reason such as: the amount of data has grown rapidly in our Production systemperformance has slowed down unexpectedly and we don't know whythe data is now not presenting correctly in our app like may be due to delegation in…

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Power Platform AI Builder: Entity Extraction AI Model

AI Builder entity extraction models recognize specific data in the text that you target based on your business needs. The model identifies key elements in the text and then classifies them into predefined categories. This can help you transform unstructured data into structured data that's machine-readable. You can then apply processing to retrieve information, extract facts, and answer questions. The term "Entity" in Entity Extraction AI Model means predefined categories…

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MB-400: Power Apps + Dynamics 365 Developer – Preparation Guide

So, I was able to clear one more certification last week.After completing MB-400 exam last week, I would like to share my experience on how I prepared for this exam, and whats the impact of revised course update on the certification. I will talk about what to study and why hands-on is important. Do you know, all these new Roles-Based Certificates has 2 years of validity as per the Microsoft…

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Preview: Run canvas and model-driven apps on Power Apps mobile app

Power Apps is the mobile app which was originally built to access Canvas Apps in Andriod and iOS. Right now, using both canvas and model-driven apps together on a mobile device is a painful experience since it requires two different mobile apps to be installed on your device. We need to use Dynamics 365 apps to access model-driven apps on mobile. With the new Power Apps mobile app, we can…

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Share a model-driven app with Power Apps

Microsoft CRM/Dynamics 365/Model-Driven Apps have come a long way in the last few years. Now all Canvas apps and Model-Driven apps are consolidated and available to create, edit, play and share from one place, which is make.powerapps.com. In the past, we need to customize the Sitemap of a Dynamics 365 to ensure people with selective roles should be able to see and access only relevant records. There was no way…

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Canvas Apps: Add Custom Logging using Trace Function

In the last post, Log telemetry for your Canvas Apps using Azure Application Insights, we discuss this interesting new feature to capture the telemetry of your Canvas App in Azure Application Insights and use its feature to monitor, analyse and improve your App for better customer experience.In this post, we will check out how we can add Custom Logging to our Canvas App, and therefore, use it to gather information…

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Log telemetry for your Canvas Apps using Azure Application Insights

Microsoft has introduced a new instrumentation feature to allow makers to collect detailed telemetry for their Canvas apps. In case you would like to know how many people are using your Canvas app, where they are accessing it from, what screens are most visited, and the devices or browsers that are most popular, well now we can get all this insight using Azure Application Insights. The benefit of using Azure…

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