Many of us are attracted to Power Apps for the speed and simplicity in which we can create feature-rich applications that can draw from many data sources and interact with a variety of systems. However, despite its many improvements over the past few years, Power Apps still lacks some of the options available in web … Continue reading Creating Banded Galleries in Power Apps
Creating Teams-Aware Power Apps
Recently, Microsoft released an important enhancement to Power Apps that enables Teams to pass important content information directly into the app when calling it. This means that when an app is added to a team or channel, it can leverage this information to simplify the user experience for the user. Suppose you want to have … Continue reading Creating Teams-Aware Power Apps
Keeping your Azure AD Security Groups and Office 365 Groups in Sync with the Power Platform
One of the challenges that Office 365 admins face is managing group membership in various services. For example, when working with SharePoint Online, the recommended practice is to leverage Azure AD security groups. This way, when the group membership changes, all the admin needs to do is update the Azure AD group and the change … Continue reading Keeping your Azure AD Security Groups and Office 365 Groups in Sync with the Power Platform
Create your own Power Automate JSON Editor using Power Apps and Power Automate
Since it’s inception, Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow) has been positioned as being a no code/low code Citizen Developer workflow development platform. It’s awesome to see how far along it has come in such a short time and how much it has been adopted in the Office 365 community. As someone who has been working with the … Continue reading Create your own Power Automate JSON Editor using Power Apps and Power Automate
Segregating Organizational Admin Responsibilities in Office 365
Today, Office 365 offers a variety of admin roles that can be used to manage your tenant — 45 to be exact. These roles align with the general recommended practice of providing users and admins alike the least amount of access they require to complete their work. However, with that, there is still a problem … Continue reading Segregating Organizational Admin Responsibilities in Office 365
Linking to files in Microsoft Teams
I love the fact that Microsoft Teams lets me manage all my content in one place — files, conversations, and more. One way to even further simplify my collaboration with my peers is by including links to files directly within my conversations. When you select the Get link option for a file, a dialog presents you with … Continue reading Linking to files in Microsoft Teams
Accessing the latest Standard Operating Procedures when your Network is Down
A Standard Operating Procedure (SOP’s) is a set of step-by-step instructions compiled by an organization to help workers carry out complex routine operations. Sometimes, these SOP’s describe emergency procedures for dealing with fire, gas leaks, hazardous material spills, or other disasters. Recently, I worked with a client in the oil and gas industry who had … Continue reading Accessing the latest Standard Operating Procedures when your Network is Down
Extend a warm welcome to your new Team member
Microsoft just released a new Power Automate template that can help welcome new Team members and notify existing members when someone leaves a Team. At first it may seem redundant as Teams already provides built-in functionality to notify users of such changes. But there are two main differences: The built-in notifications only appear in the General channel … Continue reading Extend a warm welcome to your new Team member
Turning Up the Power
Microsoft Ignite 2019 was another big eye opener this year. Like previous years, there were a ton of new products and features announced. The Power Platform has seen its share of its own improvements to further enhance its functionality and open doors to better integrations and solve business problems. Since the initial roll-out in 2018, … Continue reading Turning Up the Power
Employee Check-in Simplified using Power Automate
Company employees who move between offices are often faced with a tedious process of having to check-in at the security desk to get a temporary pass. This process can be time consuming and is further exacerbated when the person who needs to approve the check-in is not available. Luckily, we can use flow to make … Continue reading Employee Check-in Simplified using Power Automate
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