Make the Activity Timeline Control Useful in Model-Driven Power Apps

Make the Activity Timeline Control Useful in Model-Driven Power Apps

The Activity Timeline you see in Model-driven Power Apps & Dynamics 365 is actually a huge awesome PCF control called ‘Timeline Control’. It has a massive range of configurable options available now from the new solution explorer. These are my top four highlights - Customising activity cards, Hiding the blobby things (aka ‘Persona with Initials’), cleaning up the timeline to speed up the load time and allowing/preventing creation from the timeline.

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Quick View forms with edit permissions - introducing the Form Component Control

Quick View forms with edit permissions - introducing the Form Component Control

Quick View forms have been disappointingly average since CRM 2013. I’m excited to be introducing the better sibling of the Quick View form that lets you see and edit data from other tables from a single form - it’s called ‘Form Component Control’. *catchy name pending*

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Flip the switch: two option (yes/no) fields in model-driven Power Apps

Flip the switch: two option (yes/no) fields in model-driven Power Apps

Lets look at how the humble two option field can be better visualised and used in more creative ways in your model-driven Power Apps. We do this by using Custom Controls out of the box and PCF components. Plus a bonus feature (although technically not a two option field behind the scenes) shows a really smart example of how you can you a flip switch to set a timestamp, two visual benefits in one field!

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Sticky notes are dead: digital Kanban boards for Dynamics and Power Apps

Sticky notes are dead: digital Kanban boards for Dynamics and Power Apps

Unfortunately the 21st century world of co-located, socially distanced teams the traditional Kanban board in all its post-it note glory is a thing of the past. Lets look at how we can use custom controls and Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) for model-driven Power Apps to help our users and teams to better manage their workloads.

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Gridlock: custom control views & sub-grids in model driven apps

Gridlock: custom control views & sub-grids in model driven apps

Exploring more unified interface custom controls in model-driven apps. Focusing on sub-grid and view custom controls which are available natively. There is already a wealth of functionality available' out of the box', you just need to know where to find it. This post will cover Editable grids, Nested grids and Reference panels.

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Attractive Activity Calendars in Model-Driven Apps

Attractive Activity Calendars in Model-Driven Apps

Lets look at how we can use out of the box custom controls and nifty site map navigation to create a one stop calendar for you and your team to see at a glance all the activity going on with your customers and prospects. So you can keep tabs on conversations easier in a virtual world where it’s easy to have no idea who is meeting who from their respective solo home offices.

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Social Post Approvals in Dynamics Marketing Option 2: Flow from a Business Process Flow

Social Post Approvals in Dynamics Marketing Option 2: Flow from a Business Process Flow

Power Automate has some really awesome approval functionality and the ability to trigger Instant flows from business process flows in Dynamics is in public preview. Whopeee! Lets go build a delightfully low code approvals process in Dynamics Marketing.

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Locate Tweets with Power Automate & Demystifying a Twitter Connector "Gotcha"​

Locate Tweets with Power Automate & Demystifying a Twitter Connector "Gotcha"​

Previously explorations covered social monitoring for tweets in Dynamics Marketing which was superbly fun. Recently with the use of some PCF & Bing power, things just got a little bit cooler in the Tweet world of Dynamics Marketing. A slight tweak to the flow has been made - take the tweeters profile location and trim any text after the first comma for example 'Sydney, Australia' becomes 'Sydney'. Then we leverage the wonderful Bing connector to calculate the longitude and latitude of the Tweeter.

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VIDEO: Power Up Dynamics Marketing

VIDEO: Power Up Dynamics Marketing

Explore some cool ways to enhance, extend and improve Dynamics Marketing by leveraging power platform tools in a way which is real world and practical. We will focus on improving both user and customer experience to help attain maximum ROI on Dynamics Marketing implementations by doing some cool and exciting magic with AI, Power Automate, Power Apps & Custom Controls.

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Bringing Instagram into Dynamics Marketing: Powered by Flow and PowerApps Component Framework Controls

Bringing Instagram into Dynamics Marketing: Powered by Flow and PowerApps Component Framework Controls

Dynamics (for) Marketing has functionality for scheduled and instant social posting to Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn but nothing for Instagram. Fortunately Microsoft Flow already has an Instagram connector. So lets get our Instagram monitoring into Dynamics Marketing and leverage some PowerApps Component Framework Controls for extra sexiness.

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