Sales accelerator (Preview): Enable and configure the Sales accelerator

Well, what is the objective of Sales teams in an organisation? They must focus on high-velocity selling. The sellers, who are part of these sales teams, should spend their valuable time identifying the best customer in their customer list, navigating across multiple sources, to identify who they need to engage with, when, and how. So, what is the Sales accelerator? To overcome this challenge, the new Sales accelerator module in…

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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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Enable creating and editing data in forms displayed as a modal dialog

One of the general requests we all hear from our users is that they would prefer to use a Dialog window to work on related records instead keep navigating from one back and forth across forms.Wells the good news is here. In the upcoming 2020 release of power platform, we will be able to open a main form as a model dialog directly from another main form. This will greatly…

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Power Platform: Improved Column Filtering and Quick Find Search Experience on a Grid

Power Platform 2020 release wave 1 feature list is out and few of these features are available for early access.Microsoft's team has improved the grid column filtering & Quick Find search experience on a grid in this release. Well, let's check out these features in detail. Quick Find search experience on a grid In Dynamics 365 or any Model-Driven app, if we want to quickly search a record in an…

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Improved Performance Center in Dynamics 365 and Model-Driven Apps

If you have ever used Dynamics 365 solutions in the past, you might have stumbled upon this feature. I just found out about the change in UI and other feature while I was attending one of the Microsoft Airlift training and I accidentally click the shortcut key to open up this feature. What is the Performance Center? It is an inbuilt tool that can be used to quickly analyse the…

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Business Process Flow Immersive Experience in Power Automate

If you are familiar with Model-Driven apps, then I am sure you have heard or used Business Process Flow to define a process for the ease of your customers. Traditionally, in Dynamics 365 or in a Model-Driven app, here's how we can define and use BPF:1. Create a Model-Driven App or use an existing one.2. Create a new or use an existing Entity in CDS.3. Define a new BPF based…

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Collaborate on Microsoft Teams using Flow and Adaptive Cards

Microsoft Teams is your hub for teamwork in Office 365. All your team conversations, files, meetings, and apps live together in a single shared workspace, and you can take it with you on your favorite mobile device. With the growing popularity of Teams, it's essential that we must design our system to collaborate and share as much information as possible using Teams.With this thought in mind, I remember seeing a…

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