Microsoft Cloud
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Handling Missing User Profile Photos in Canvas Apps
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time working with photos in Canvas Apps in order to create more of a visual impact in my user interface design. Often this photo can come from the Office 365 User’s profile photo upload but we can’t necessarily predict or control whether the… Continue reading…
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Create a Rolling Calendar Year in Canvas Apps
Earlier this week I had a requirement to create a screen that would help others forecast an activity for the next 12 months. Whilst I was happy working with the data model, ensuring that the year was based on this month and the next eleven was more difficult than I… Continue reading…
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Visualise Your Day’s Meetings in Canvas Apps
With Microsoft expanding their suite of apps every month, it can be difficult to create the right view of data for you to personally consume without context switching. Recently I have been exploring the Office365Outlook Connector in Canvas Apps to bring a day view of my calendar into a Power… Continue reading…
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Choosing The Right Data Source for Power Apps & Power Automate
One of the biggest challenges that we face when building apps and automations is the decision on where to store my data. Sometimes this choice may be dictated to us based on licensing and architectural factors, however, if you have a choice of options then this blog post is for… Continue reading…
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Modify An Owner’s Connection References in Power Automate
No matter how amazing an organisation may be, unfortunately there will always be the possibility of someone leaving the organisation. When it comes to Power Automate, this means that you can be stuck with the original Owner of the Cloud Flow having left the organisation, where Connection References eventually error,… Continue reading…
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Translating Unknowns into Tangible Requirements
For me, the most exciting part of a project is the challenge of figuring out exactly what a client is asking for based on a very short brief provided in an introductory call. This challenge is increased in my industry when you move from Dynamics 365 based projects to pure… Continue reading…
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How To Enable ModelDrivenFormIntegration for Existing Canvas Apps
Earlier this week I found myself trying to embed an existing Canvas app into a Model-Driven app to better present information relating to the record using the flexible UI controls, but as an infrequent user of such a feature, I struggled to understand how I could reference the current Model-Driven… Continue reading…
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