Author Archives: Alex Shlega

Macro Templates solution: Power Automate flow

This post is part of a series of posts. Please use the links below to navigate through the related posts: There is a single cloud flow in the solution – the purpose of that flow is to create a small excel spreadsheet in Sharepoint that has all the data the document template may need. On… Read More »

Macro Templates solution: Custom Page dialog

This post is part of a series of posts. Please use the links below to navigate through the related posts: Custom pages are great – they are easy to develop, they can do what a canvas application can do, and they work within the model-driven application. We can also use custom pages with Xrm.Navigation.navigateTo to… Read More »

Here goes an unusual combination of old and new technologies, sprinkled with a bunch of howto-s

We don’t always get to choose the technology we work with in the Power Platform world. Strict security, missing subscriptions, long approvals… if you’ve ever worked on the government projects, you know the drill. However, sometimes, this leads to a very unusual combination of tools and technologies, and, in this series of posts, I’m going… Read More »

Adding OpenAI-powered chat? Well, why not…

I’ve been playing with OpenAI API for the last few days, so I’ve learned quite a bit 😉 The immediate outcome is that you can now try talking to the AI assistant here: https://treecatsoftware.com/ai/assistant It’s not unlimited chat, OpenAI api is a pay per token service, so please do not start spamming my assistant 🙄… Read More »

User Dataverse connector with non-current environments

Quick note to whoever is reading: this post is a bit of an experiment. It’s useful, but it pretty much sticks to the facts and there is no personal touch. This is intentional, there is another post which explains why Back in October, Microsoft has started rolling out updates to the Dataverse connector which will… Read More »