For the last several weeks I have been working on a project to encourage myself to learn more about Power BI, PowerApps and Flow. I have been procrastinating learning these tools waiting for the perfect use case to test on. However what I really needed was just time and a data set to work with. … Continue reading Improve Game Night with the Power Platform: Lessons Learned
I am working through a scenario to select and rate Board Games to help push me to learn more about the Power Platform. At this point we have selected a game and sat down to play. Obviously I won so I want to record a high rating for this game. My goal is to create … Continue reading Improve Game Night with the Power Platform: Canvas PowerApp
I am in the middle of working to learn the Power Platform by making a dashboard and application to help select a board game to play for game night. The data structure has been created and current game list imported. Now we are going to use Power BI to make a Board Game dashboard. My … Continue reading Improve Game Night with the Power Platform: Power BI
As you may know, I am trying to learn more about the Power Platform by creating an application to help with board game selection in my household. We have already set up the entities. Next is the data import then we will use PowerBI and create a PowerApp. Since all of our fields are there … Continue reading Improve Game Night with the Power Platform: Data Import
As you learned yesterday, I wanted to learn about PowerApps and decided to do this by improving the game night board game selection process. As a prerequisite for this learning experiment I exported our board game library from BoardGameGeek (to be honest, most of this was my husband's idea and he maintains this list which … Continue reading Improve Game Night with the Power Platform: Data Structure
I have been wanting to learn more about PowerApps and Flow for some time but have been waiting to think of the best way to handle this. This week is the best time to learn since it is the Power Platform World Tour in Washington, DC. I wanted to work through a scenario that would … Continue reading Improve Game Night with the Power Platform: Intro
Creating a new Real-Time Workflow I have been mentioning Real-Time workflows throughout the rest of my workflow series. Today, let's look at Real-Time workflows specifically. Converting to Real Time from Background Start When Options Converting to Real-Time Return Error to User: Step 1 New Workflows are set to Run in the Background (asynchronous) by default. … Continue reading Microsoft Dynamics 365 Workflows: Real Time Options
We have already learned about the Types of Processes, Workflow Settings and Workflow Scope and Trigger options. Now let's move on to what you can do inside these workflows. The most important part of writing workflows is figuring out the correct logic and flow. To do this I recommend starting with a flow chart. This gives … Continue reading Microsoft Dynamics 365 Workflows: Workflow Steps
Now you already know about the types of processes and the left-side of the workflow options (Run When), so now we will talk about the right-side of the workflow options. This includes Scope and Start When. Background Workflow Scope and Start When Scope means who should this run for. Start when is what action should … Continue reading Microsoft Dynamics 365 Workflows: Start When and Scope
Now that you understand the types of Processes available in Microsoft Dynamics 365, let's break down the settings you will need to configure for workflows. It can be very confusing while working on your first workflow to see the half-page of settings you need to fill out! Background Workflow Options Today will will cover the … Continue reading Microsoft Dynamics 365 Workflows: Workflow Settings