Use Azure Cognitive Services within the Power Platform

How Gartner defines Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Gartner defines Artificial Intelligence (AI) as "a technology that appears to emulate human performance typically by learning from data, and at times mimicking human-like tasks such as perception, cognitive reasoning, decision-making and natural language processing." Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a buzzword in the tech industry for years, and…

Alert! A custom log measure reached a threshold limit for your canvas app. How can I get notified?

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…

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…

Power Platform Dataflows

What is Power Platform Dataflows?Power Platform Dataflows are a powerful feature that allows users to extract, transform, and load data (ETL) from various sources into central data storage. Just a type of central data storage can be Dataverse or Data lake. This central data storage can power business intelligence and analytics tools, such as Power…

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…

Get your custom logs from a Power App into Azure Log Analytics

Azure Log Analytics is a service that can collect logs from any resource, within Azure. Having the possibility to send custom logs, leads us seamlessly to the next point. Sometimes there's that need to check what's happening during a process, logging to a text file or keeping historical logs in a SQL database is mostly…