The Power Platform Chap

Benjamin Crowe

Automate LinkedIn Posting with Power Automate

Date: 18/03/2025 - No Comments

LinkedIn is like the bustling coffee shop of the professional world – full of insightful conversations, the latest industry buzz, and a chance to showcase your expertise. But let’s be honest, remembering to post every time you publish a new article can feel like trying to remember where you left your keys. Enter Power Automate, your new best friend for hassle-free LinkedIn updates. With the LinkedIn V2 connector, you can automate LinkedIn posting. To ensure your content reaches your audience without lifting a finger. Say goodbye to the posting chore and hello to more time for sipping that latte!

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Function Friday – Multi tasking with Concurrent

Date: 14/03/2025 - No Comments

Introduction Sometimes when developing a power platform canvas app we want to be able to evaluate multiple formulas at once. This is where we can multi-task with the Concurrent function can come into play. Multi-tasking with Concurrent Within a Canvas app, we can chain formulas together in a single property such as a user-controlled button […]

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Custom Model Driven App Commands

Date: 11/03/2025 - No Comments

Sometimes you get a requirement that can’t be solved with an out-of-the-box app, this is where we need custom model-driven app commands.

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Function Friday – Looking up records in Power Apps

Date: 07/03/2025 - No Comments

Hello all, it’s Friday again so time to take a look at another Power Fx function. In previous weeks we’ve had a look at saving data with Patch, Update Context and Navigate. This week its the turn of Lookup function.

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Auditing your users records with Dataverse Audit

Date: 04/03/2025 - No Comments

Keeping on top of this ever-changing information can be stressful. This is where Dataverse Audit functionality comes into play.

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Function Friday – Navigating through Power Apps

Date: 28/02/2025 - No Comments

Introduction Welcome to the third instalment of our Function Friday series! In this post, we’ll dive into the Navigation function. As Canvas apps grow more complex, managing the visibility of components on a single screen can become challenging. Fortunately, developers can simplify this by adding multiple screens. Let’s explore how this can make your app […]

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Power Apps – Sending Outlook Emails in Canvas Apps

Date: 25/02/2025 - No Comments

361.6 billion! This is the amount of emails estimated to be sent daily during 2024. Email is a great way to communicate across a business, not only to ask a question but also to notify an individual or team. In this post, I’ll walk through how to send an email from a canvas app.

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Function Friday – Working with Update Context

Date: 21/02/2025 - No Comments

Introduction Continuing with our Function Friday series, like last week’s ‘Patch’ function, we will investigate how to save a temporary create and store a piece of information known as a variable with the Update Context function. There can be many times when as a developer you will need to be able to store values within […]

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Introduction to Dataverse Security Roles

Date: 18/02/2025 - No Comments

Data is the lynchpin of business, so securing it is critical. The organisation must control who has access to data and what they can do with the data. This ensures that end users can still do what they need to without the risk of data leaks.

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Function Friday – Saving Data in Power Apps – Patch

Date: 14/02/2025 - No Comments

Hello, and welcome to a new series in which I will review all the functions available in the Power Platform Canvas applications. The purpose of this series is twofold: first, to improve my understanding of these functions, and second, to provide a resource that others will hopefully find useful. These posts will be in no […]

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