Power Platform Community Call – August 2022

Power Platform Community Call – August 2022

Call summary

Latest updates and news on Power Platform including community events, training opportunities and the Monthly Community Tip. Three demos delivered – Using Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Power Automate to Upgrade your Customer Onboarding Experience, Building a Time Sheeting Microsoft Power Apps canvas app using Microsoft Dataverse, and Connecting Microsoft Power Pages to your Microsoft Dataverse data. Monthly Community Tip - Remove duplicate rows in collections with one line of code!, plus 4 Power Platform samples. This call was hosted by David Warner II (Microsoft) | @DavidWarnerII and recorded on August 17, 2022. Questions addressed in chat throughout the call.

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Demo summaries

  • Using Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Power Automate to Upgrade your Customer Onboarding Experience – onboard customers using a combination of Forms and Power Automate. Presenter steps through what is customer onboarding, problems, solutions, and benefits for best end-to-end experience. Solution uses Microsoft Forms and Power Automate connected to any ERP system. Build a Form to collect customer information, stores data in Dataverse, creates an automated cloud flow that drives approvals, populates database and creates a contract, etc.
  • Building a Time Sheeting Microsoft Power Apps canvas app using Microsoft Dataverse – solution delivered by 3 core components. Canvas App contains a single form in which each user enters their time against a project, Dataverse for data storage, and the Model Driven app with Project and Timesheets tables for managing timesheet administration. Review app requirements and design decisions. Tasks are organized by projects and users and reporting delivered by day, week, month. Replaces 3rd party timesheet app.
  • Connecting Microsoft Power Pages to your Microsoft Dataverse data – using Dataverse with Model Driven apps, allows you to connect your Model Driven apps and your Dataverse data to a public website. Create a Power Page that renders a view of a Dataverse table. Start-to-finish - sign up for Power Pages trial, create site from template, create Dataverse table, create a view, add records, page to site and role-based permissions to access table.

Agenda items

  • Latest Power Apps Samples – April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam – 1:45
  • Latest updates and news on Power Platform - David Warner II (Microsoft) | @DavidWarnerII – 5:40
  • Monthly Community Tip - Using the Toggle control to create reusable functions! - Todd Baginski - (Canviz) | @toddbaginski – 7:36
  • Demo - Using Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Power Automate to Upgrade your Customer Onboarding Experience – Mary Myers (WorldMax) | @MaryMyers_WM – 12:35
  • Demo - Building a Time Sheeting Microsoft Power Apps canvas app using Microsoft Dataverse – Darren Lutchner (365 Assist) | @assist_365 – 30:40
  • Demo - Connecting Microsoft Power Pages to your Microsoft Dataverse data – Hugo Bernier (Microsoft) | @bernierh – 41:08

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