Category: PowerFX
Posted by: Dian Taylor | on January 13, 2026
Show/Hide custom buttons with PowerFX when a lookup column has no value
A friend of mine was recently trying to make a custom button on an opportunity form in Dynamics 365 Sales show on the form, but only when a certain lookup field had a value. They turned to PowerFX to make it happen but there were some some problems getting it to work correctly. For those who haven’t used it much, Power Fx is the low-code formula language built into theRead More
Posted in Configuration, Contact Center, Customer Service Workspace, D365 Customer Service, D365 Field Service, D365 Sales, PowerFX, Project Service Automation | Tags:button, ContactID, Dataverse, Form, Hide Button, IsBlank, Lookup, lookup column, PowerFX, Show button, table, value, values | Comments Off on Show/Hide custom buttons with PowerFX when a lookup column has no value
Posted by: Dian Taylor | on October 31, 2023
Use plugin actions in Copilot Studio (preview)
If you read last week’s article than you know that Microsoft announced a couple of new features during the Microsoft Power Platform Conference that took place in Las Vegas the first week of October. Last week I wrote about the ability to upload documents for generative answers which is in preview today, which allows us to upload one or multiple documents to be used in generative answers in Power VirtualRead More
Posted in Configuration, Copilot Studio (previously Power Virtual Agents), PowerFX | Tags:Convert Fahrenheit to celsius, copilot studio, FowerFX, Get weather, Node, Plugin, Plugin Action, Plugin Actions, Power Virtual Agents | Comments Off on Use plugin actions in Copilot Studio (preview)
Posted by: Dian Taylor | on December 27, 2022
Power Virtual Agents: Question Options Deep Dive
Since the public preview of the updated version of Power Virtual Agents became available last month, I have been hitting PVA hard. Meaning any time I had availability I was working in Power Virtual Agents trying to uncover as many secrets as I could! If you a frequent visitor of my website, you might have noticed that the last 3 articles were all about the new experience in PVA andRead More
Posted in Configuration, Copilot Studio (previously Power Virtual Agents), PowerFX, Release Wave | Tags:2022 Release Wave 2, Advanced, Authoring, Canvas, Features, New, Power Virtual Agents, PowerFX, Preview, PVA, Question | Comments Off on Power Virtual Agents: Question Options Deep Dive
Posted by: Dian Taylor | on December 20, 2022
Power Virtual Agents: Creating adaptive cards with PowerFX
The last three articles I wrote were about the new advanced authoring canvas in Power Virtual Agents, which is in preview today. In the first article I showed you an example of how we could query data from Dynamics 365 customer service and feed those rows back into Power Virtual Agents so that we can use these values with a question (You can access that article here). In the articleRead More
Posted in Configuration, Copilot Studio (previously Power Virtual Agents), PowerFX, Release Wave | Tags:Adaptive Card, Adaptive Cards, advanced authoring, Dynamic Data, Feature, New, New Features, Power Virtual Agent, Power Virtual Agents, PowerFX, variable array, Variables | Comments Off on Power Virtual Agents: Creating adaptive cards with PowerFX
Posted by: Dian Taylor | on December 6, 2022
Power Virtual Agents: Creating basic cards with PowerFX
The last two articles I wrote were both about the new advanced authoring canvas in Power Virtual Agents, which is in preview today. I showed you an example of how we could query data from Dynamics 365 customer service and feed those rows back into Power Virtual Agents so that we can use these values with a question (You can access that article here). The customer can then pick anyRead More
Posted in Configuration, Copilot Studio (previously Power Virtual Agents), PowerFX, Release Wave | Tags:Advanced, advanced authoring, Basic Card, Create card, Feature, New, Power Virtual Agent, Power Virtual Agents, PowerFX, Variable, variable array, Variables | Comments Off on Power Virtual Agents: Creating basic cards with PowerFX
Posted by: Dian Taylor | on November 15, 2022
Power Virtual Agents: Advanced authoring canvas preview
You might remember that back in May of this year, (during the Microsoft Build event) new capabilities coming to Power Virtual Agents were announced. I was able to get my hands on one of the environments to test it out and write an overview on the new features. If you haven’t read the article you can do that here. I also created an accompanying video which can be accessed fromRead More


