Forward Forever Monthly - Issue #2

App discoverability for both users and admins can be a real challenge. Here are the ways through which Power Apps could be viewed within your tenant.

What options do we have for adding image files to better visualize Power BI data? Let’s explore SharePoint, Azure Blob Storage and Dataverse.

How to create a GitHub repository for your Canvas app source code, to provide version control and direct editing in Visual Studio Code.

Jukka Niiranen wraps up the year in Microsoft’s low-code business apps: what were his 2021 highlights?

Antti Pajunen puts together a solution consisting of Power Apps Custom Pages, Word templates and cloud flows to generate a PDF document consisting of project hour entry details. Finally, the file is stored in the project’s SharePoint site, ready to be sent to the customer alongside the actual invoice.

Sharing apps with users doesn’t immediately add them into the Users table of the environment. Timo demonstrates the options you have for speeding up this process.

Though you can build real-time reports with DirectQuery, push datasets offer a more scalable, economical, and effective solution especially when combined wih an Import model already in place.

Power Apps Portals can now be published as PWA’s that behave much like a native app on your mobile phone. But what exactly is a “PWA”? Nick Doelman explains the fundamentals of the concept for Portal makers.

If you’ve been using Dynamics 365 Marketing for a while already, the new Real-time Marketing side will shift many familiar things around. Megan V. Walker recently completed her video series that will take you through the complete A-Z of what’s new in the product’s features.

A small yet very useful improvement for anyone who needs to occasionally grab Power BI report data into an Excel workbook. (Let’s admit it: this happens to all of us!😁)

Timo Pertilä and Antti Pajunen have been confirmed as speakers in the recently announced Scottish Summit event schedule. With 175+ community sessions, Glasgow on Feb 25-26 will be THE place to be for Microsoft cloud platform professionals!

Timo’s presentation from the November HPR event can now be viewed on SlideShare.