I explained in a previous blog post about getting more out of your monitoring of the Power Platform canvas app with custom logging. What if these custom measures have thresholds? How do we get notified? How do we get notified? From the previous blog, we learned how to define custom logging via the trace function…
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Get more out of your monitoring! Monitor a Power Platform canvas app with custom logging.
I explained in a previous blog post about monitoring your Power Platform canvas application with Azure Application Insights. It is possible to quickly and easily connect the low-code application with Application Insights and get standard insights. What is next?Often, an application has a lot of logic behind the scenes. Sometimes the impact is logical, and…
Monitor your Power Platform application with Azure Application Insights.
How does Gartner define application monitoring? Gartner defines application performance monitoring as monitoring software application's performance, availability and use. It includes tracking critical performance metrics, recognising and diagnosing performance issues, and taking proactive steps to solve problems before they affect end users. Why is it important to monitor? There are several reasons why it is…
How can we use Dataverse teams to show specific controls/content on a canvas app?
In some cases, we use Dataverse teams in environments of solutions to provide an easy way to share business objects and let them collaborate with other people across business units. Different teams like owner, access and Azure AD group teams exist. More information about them can be found here. Question?How can we use Dataverse teams…
Use your environment variables in a canvas app.
When creating Dataverse environment variables in your solution, we can use them seamlessly in Power Automate. More information about Environment variables. Question?How can we use Dataverse environment variables in a canvas app?Solution SetupDataverse Environmental variableIn Dataverse, we have created an environment variable. In this example, we create an environment variable to store the environment URL.…
Download a file data type from your Canvas App.
When creating a table in Dataverse, we can add columns with specific data types. Like the date, text, multi lines of text, etc. Idem for a file data type. File data type columns are a primary data type intended to store a single image, note or attachment. However, keeping other forms of binary data is…
“SortByColumns” on a column from a relationship among tables.
Question? Can we sort gallery filtered values on data located in a table connected to the gallery source?ERD table example: Issue. When using the gallery control to display and filter information based on a selection could be sometimes tricky. One gallery will display the information of the table "Room Class." The second table needs to…
Item level security on a SharePoint list. What’s the behavior in a Canvas App?
The following question was posted last week on LinkedIn:Is it possible to authorise by item-level security in the SharePoint list?Each row contains three or four email ids in different columns (Text type). Only the people of those email ids should be able to edit or view the record when they come to SharePoint list view…
When using a canvas app, how do we restrict application users to change data in a SharePoint list from the SharePoint GUI?
Citizen Developers, Power users and champions often using SharePoint lists to store their data. They can use Power Apps, and Power Automate within their Office 365 Business Basic, Standard, E1 and E3 license.Because without restriction, when sharing the canvas app, they have permissions to the list and can change the data in the SharePoint GUI.…
Canvas App – Multi-selection combo box with date values in a Forms control.
Issue Using a Forms control to collect information from the end-user in a canvas app is a best practice. However, it is not often straightforward to display the data in a combo box, and this is because of certain limitations of the combo box - control itself. Let us explain the issue.Overview of the resources used to…
Using Azure Active Directory groups to give access to Power Apps applications.
Many of you have questions about giving access to a Power Apps application from Azure Active Directory groups. How do we manage access to a model app in Power Apps from AAD?How can we assign a role in Dataverse to a user? Without doing it for each active user.Where can I find the AAD security…
Tip: Create app in TEAMS
Building a canvas app in teams (earlier code name project Oakdale) gives you the possibility to create a canvas app in Teams for Teams. More information here A lot of citizen developers, taken their first steps in developing apps in Teams and they are using also know tools, like SharePoint. But indeed, there is a…
Enable formula bar result view
I want to talk about this experimental feature, that enables you to understand the result of your formula or/and have the possibility to debug a formula. Sharing my experience with this feature and let you see where it help me to define my formulas and debugging. Where to enable the feature? Open a power app…
Environments and Data Protection – How-to!
Intro Power Platform of Microsoft (Power Apps, Microsoft Flow and Power BI) are tools that will help you, with your digital transformation 4.0. Microsoft Power Platform In the coming years, we will look at digital transformation 4.0 to optimize are business processes, production environments, healthcare, ... Currently I hear a lot of customers that are…
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