In this video, learn to enable Power Apps Application Monitoring with Azure Application Insights.  The following topics are covered in this video:  (0:00) - Intro  (0:36) - What is Azure Application Insights  (1:32) - The timesheet app  (2:12) - Creating an Application Insight for the timesheet application  (3:55) - Identify and copy the application instrumentation key  (4:09) - Enabling the timesheet application with the instrumentation key  (5:32) - Working with Application Insights  (8:06) - Outro For additional information on Azure Applicat ..read more

Learn about Power Platform extension for Visual Studio Code and how this toolset is improving both the code first developer experience and strengthening the ALM story.  The following topics are covered:  (0:00) - Intro  (1:16) - Installing the Power Platform extensions for Visual Studio Code  (2:13) - Working with the Power Platform CLI inside of Visual Studio Code  (3:42) - Authenticating to your environment from Power Platform CLI  (7:18) - Saving your canvas app to your local machine  (8:55) - Unpacking your canvas app  (10:19) - Using Visual Stud ..read more

I revisit an old video I did couple years ago showing how to pass collections from Power Automate to Power Apps.  This time around, I show how to leverage arrays to accomplish the same. This time around you will learn about: Power Apps trigger in Power Automate  Get Rows SQL action  Variables action Select action and Arrays Response action Power Apps Collections To check out my YouTube channel visit: https://youtube.com/user/mgomezb1 LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!!! Until next post! MG.- Mariano Gomez, MVP ..read more

AI Builder Form Processing Multi-layout Form Processing has been one of the most requested features and is now available in preview for you to test. This feature allows you to process forms with a variety of different layouts (but similar in content) with a single model, which brings this feature one step closer to a scalable enterprise solution. In this video I cover the following: - Creating a model - Form collections - Training the form processing model - Publishing the form processing model - Testing the model For additional information, please refer to: Create a form processing mode ..read more

Welcome to the final episode of Power Platform Application Lifecycle Management. In parts 1 and 2 you saw how to prepare your environments, set up an Azure DevOps project, and define Service Connections to your Power Platform environments.  In this, the final installment of this 3-part series, you will learn how to create the Build and Release pipelines using the Power Platform Build Tools to take your Power Platform solution from an environment, through source code control, through staging and production deployments. Topics covered: - Power Platform source code control with Azure Re ..read more

In the previous installment, you saw how to work through a set of prerequisites to get you going in your Power Platform Application Lifecycle Management journey. In this video, I will work through building an app and adding it to a solution and show you some additional Azure DevOps configuration options to link your repository to your Power Platform development environment. Topics Covered: 1. Building app based on template 2. Adding your app to a solution 3. Linking your DevOps project to your Power Platform environment References: Power Platform Build Tools webinar - https://youtu.be/Qwu ..read more

This series is in response to multiple requests by my viewers to address the topic of Power Apps Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). This series is intended to breakdown the entire process in as much detail as possible, without lengthy explanations on how to get it done or, as often happens, little to no explanations on how you arrived at a particular step or result. My first installment will focus on Prerequisites, this is, what you need to have in place to get started. I will walk you through provisioning your Power Platform Dev, QA, and Production environments, along with installing th ..read more

Majority of times, when we are working with various data sources, we want information to go from one source to another, conditioned to the occurrence of an event. Today, I will show you how to transfer records from a SharePoint list to Azure SQL database tables in response to a timesheet approval event. In the process, you will learn how I leveraged the existing Power Apps Expense template app and converted it into a Timesheet app for the purpose of recording time for various activities  Other topics covered: Working with SharePoint lists and Azure SQL databases "When an item is cr ..read more

In this video you will learn how to save pictures taken in Power Apps Mixed Reality or Augmented Reality viewer to a SharePoint document library.     Some topics covered include: Power Apps ForAll(), With(), Mid(), and Len() functions, the Self operator. Learn to use the Power Automate SharePoint connector and the Create File action, and the base64toBinary() function in an expression. Finally, you will see how you can call a flow from Power Apps to make it all work like a single application ..read more

In this video you will learn the basics of the Microsoft Graph API, how to use Graph Explorer, register an application to use Microsoft Graph in Azure Active Directory, and build a simple flow that will use the Teams Connector and Graph API to list a set of tabs in a Teams channel.    Other topics covered are: compose and HTTP actions, using the compose action as an alternative to variables, using the filter array action to filter the results in a JSON payload.  References: Microsoft Graph: https://graph.microsoft.com   Credits:  Creative Minds - Bensound - Ro ..read more