Tag: power automate
Trigger Power Automate Flow from Button in Model Driven App
I have received several emails from people that asked me if it was possible to trigger a power automate flow (or workflow) from a button inside a model-driven app using the out of the box command bar editor. The answer to this question is an indirect yes. (I will explain to you in a second why it’s an ‘indirect’ yes and not a straight up yes.) Once I confirmed thisRead More
Create Plugin Actions(preview) with Power Automate in Copilot Studio
A few months ago I wrote an article about a new preview feature for Copilot Studio called ‘Plugin Actions’. (You can read the article here if you haven’t read it yet.) If you’re not familiar with Plugin actions, they are used by copilot to respond to users automatically and you can call them from within a topic! In my previous article I showed you how to use an existing powerRead More
Schedule weekly email with quote details and hyperlink | Part 2
Last week I wrote part 1 of my article on how you can use Power Automate to automatically send a weekly email with data from Dynamics 365 Sales, or Dataverse. If you haven’t read the article yet, I would suggest doing that first. You can access the article here. In today’s article I am going to finish building the Power Automate flow. Last week we left off at the ‘ListRead More
Schedule weekly email with quote details and hyperlink | Part 1
In todays article I am going to explain a specific requirement and show you how we can use power automate to satisfy this particular requirement. A few months ago I had to demonstrate a scenario where sales people needed to get a reminder for outstanding quotes they needed to follow up on. The sales people would create quotes on a daily bases, but not all quotes would be completed ‘allRead More
Create custom notifications on email opens
You have probably all seen the notifications in Dynamics 365 when a customer or prospect opens an email message. This notification shows in the timeline on the bottom of an email message, but if you don’t check it, you won’t see it! Another place where these notifications can become visible is in the Dynamics 365 assistant…if you set up a notification for this when you created the email in DynamicsRead More
D365 Field Service: Add child assets to an RMA
A few weeks ago I was talking to someone about Dynamics 365 Field Service and they asked me about a couple of requirements which were not standard functionality in Dynamics 365 Field Service. He wanted to know if it was possible to build logic around assets that are brought to a warehouse for repair. The scenario was that when a part is picked up from a customer to send toRead More
Power Automate: Copy and paste image field in D365
In this article I am going to discuss how you can copy the data inside an image field from one record to the image field of another record. This could come in handy in different ways but what I am trying to accomplish here is to show related ‘hobby’ data on a contact record in Dynamics 365. In the example I am using for this article, I want to showRead More
Using Power Automate conditions with Power Virtual Agents
In this article I am going to discuss a scenario where I need to pass data from Power Automate to Power Virtual Agents, but the data I’m passing will depend on the outcome of a condition. If you’re not familiar with conditions, conditions are statements that you can use in Power Automate. (Similar to check conditions in workflows). The condition will either be true or false, and therefore below theRead More
Check order status with Power Virtual Agent & Flow
I get a lot of requests where my prospects want Power Virtual Agent to be able to answer questions about order statuses. The scenario here is that someone ordered something from your website, or maybe even in person and now they are looking to see what the status of the order is, how the order was shipped and maybe they even want to get a tracking number. I am notRead More
Post Adaptive Card to a Teams Channel on Opportunity Win
After playing around with adaptive cards a bit this weekend, I have decided that this is actually one of my favorite things to use when posting messages to Microsoft Teams or Outlook! First let me explain what adaptive cards are and how we can use them in different applications. Adaptive cards are built from JSON and that content can then be rendered inside a host application like Microsoft Teams, Outlook,Read More
