No Remote? No Problem! Microsoft Teams Mobile App is here to help

You have ten minutes before your big presentation begins. The slides are ready, you’re dialed in to the conference line and start sharing the deck from your laptop, and then horror strikes — you can’t find your presenter remote. Has this ever happened to you? If so, then you’re not alone. If you frequently give … Continue reading No Remote? No Problem! Microsoft Teams Mobile App is here to help

Building Enterprise-wide Multilingual Power Apps

Supporting multiple languages for corporations is a reality. It may be an organization operating in multilingual countries, such as Canada, Belgium, Italy, or others, or having a workforce that that is distributed across the globe. One common challenge in building solutions to support multilingualism is the creation and maintenance of such solutions as they evolve … Continue reading Building Enterprise-wide Multilingual Power Apps

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

Build you own Raffle Solution using the Power Platform and more

If you're a presenter or organize events, then you may agree that one thing that always attracts an audience are raffle prizes. In the past, I used to ask users random questions in the audience, which works great, but given that most of my presentations in the past couple of years have been in the … Continue reading Build you own Raffle Solution using the Power Platform and more

Save time building Flows using Copy and Paste for your Actions

Microsoft just release the preview some long-awaited functionality that allows users to easily copy and paste actions for re-use. This functionality will save makers significant amount of time when reusing actions within a Flow or across different Flows. Copying Actions To copy an action to the clipboard, all you need to do is click the … Continue reading Save time building Flows using Copy and Paste for your Actions

Building Enterprise-wide Multilingual PowerApps

Adding a Flic button trigger to a Flow triggered by PowerApps

When building PowerApps, you can use Flow to perform a lot of actions that may be more complex than what you can or want to do directly within the PowerApp. Flows are invoked via any a number of imperative properties of your PowerApp, such as OnStart() - App OnVisible(), OnHidden() - Screen OnSelect() - Button, … Continue reading Adding a Flic button trigger to a Flow triggered by PowerApps

Blanking out date fields in Dynamics 365 using a Flow

Dynamics 365 supports a number of base content types naively that can be set via Flow. However, date fields are a bit finicky. When trying to set a date field, you can provide the date in a string format. But what do you do if you need to clear out an existing value in a … Continue reading Blanking out date fields in Dynamics 365 using a Flow

Building Responsive(ish) PowerApps

Providing users with the ability to access content on their mobile devices has become common place and somewhat of a necessity today. In the best case, it would be good to have a single solution that can serve multiple devices and orientations. This article discusses how you can achieve this for PowerApps. App Settings Screen … Continue reading Building Responsive(ish) PowerApps

Working in different languages in Office 365

Sometimes, there's a need to work in a different language. Often, the driving factor is to support users in different locales. So, how do you configure the language in for your favourite Office 365 apps? Turns out the answer is not so simple. In my tests, I have narrowed down the language configuration to four … Continue reading Working in different languages in Office 365