Macro Template solution: final notes
This post is part of a series of posts. Please use the links below to navigate through the related posts: Here are just a few final notes
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 »
Business analysts vs solution architects vs developers in the scrumfall
It’s been a while since I posted, and it’s funny how my posts tend to reflect the problems I’m facing on the projects, so, when those problems becomes less technology related… the posts become less technology related as well. So the next one up: I see it over and over again that on the government… 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 »
Copilot version of my previous post (a holy crab version)
This is a co-pilot version of my recent post, and it’s been generated based on the very simple prompt, and based on, perhaps, not so far-fetched idea that the way we deal with the information is going to really… really… change. Large language models can turn a very factual post into anything we want, so,… 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 »
How do you license power automate flows when using them with Power Apps?
I’m having a strange dilemma, which is that I think I’m supposed to be using Power Automate as much as I can, but I am just not clear on how to license them now. They would be a better choice for automations: However, if I wanted to do ALM, I’d better have Power Automate flows… Read More »
Co-Pilots/AI/ChatGPT vs Experts – who does it better?
With Microsoft pushing co-pilots everywhere, with windows co-pilot refusing to talk about whether it represents any danger to humanity, it seems at least personally I need some rule of thumb to follow when talking about co-pilots specifically and AI in general, and, more exactly, about whether we still need experts or if we can just… Read More »