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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New Certifications: PL-200 & PL-400 replacing MB-200 & MB-400

If you are here, then you want to know what are these 2 new certifications (PL-200 and PL-400) and what's the future of MB-200 and MB-400 and which one should be your next target. Well, after checking out these certifications and based on my knowledge of MB-200 (cleared 1 year back) and MB-400 (cleared 2 months back), I would like to give my opinion so that you can plan out…

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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-600: Power Platform Solution Architect – Preparation Guide

So, I was able to clear one more certification last week.After completing MB-600 exam last week, I would like to share my experience on how I prepared for this exam, and how this exam is different from other Power Platform exams. I will talk about what to study and why a high-level knowledge of major Power Platform components is important. So, here is the basic information about the exam: Link…

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Query CDS Data using SQL from Power BI or SSMS (Preview)

Recently Microsoft has announced a preview of an additional way to access read-only data in CDS. The TDS endpoint for CDS allows read-only access to the system for reporting and analytics. The Tabular Data Stream (TDS) Protocol endpoint is managed by an administrator. So far,  the CDS OData endpoint served as the single access point for all types of operations. In this preview feature, the TDS endpoint is limited to read-only actions. As TDS implies, Power…

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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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Sales accelerator (Preview): Create and manage sequences

Sequences are part of Sales accelerator and they help sales managers enforce best practices by introducing a set of consecutive activities for sellers to follow during the course of their day. A manager can connect sequences to leads and opportunities that appear in a seller's work queue, to help sellers prioritize activities to focus on selling, be more productive, and better align to business processes. Every organization has its selling…

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