Author Archives: Alex Shlega

Now that everyone can quickly build and share low-code apps – will everyone do?

“Now everyone can quickly build and share low-code apps with Microsoft Power Apps” – this is the slogan you see when you open https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/ This is how Microsoft sees Power Apps, and, in the bigger schema, this is what Power Platform is all about – democratizing development by providing the tools everyone can use. With… Read More »

Using Environment Variables to configure Word Template action in the cloud flows

Power Automate word templates are much more fun to work with than the classic D365 word templates, yet we can happily use them in the model-driven app with a bit of javascript: https://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics-crm/power-automate-word-templates-in-model-driven-apps-forms-integration/ However, how are we supposed to deploy flows containing “Populate a Microsoft Word Template” action in different environments so that each environment… Read More »

Why you should consider periodic / on demand refresh for the Canvas Apps / Flows

Have you ever noticed the following paragraph in the Canvas Apps coding guidelines? Periodically republishing your apps The PowerApps product team is continually optimizing the Power platform. Sometimes, for backwards compatibility, these optimizations will apply only to apps that are published by using a certain version or later. Therefore, we recommend that you periodically republish… Read More »