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Integrate Documentation in Model-Driven Apps

Integrate Documentation in Model-Driven Apps

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During the last Power Atelier, I got asked: “Hey Michael, how do you usually document your Power Platform solutions?” I said, “I typically use Atlassian Confluence for documentation and Draw.io for architecture diagrams.”That kicked off a great discussion – and then someone followed up with,“Those diagrams and visuals are awesome! I’d love to integrate that documentation in my model-driven apps. But how can I do that?” I thought about it for a moment… and then I had an idea. What…

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Using AI for Data Correction

Using AI for Data Correction

How do you usually use Generative AI? That’s a question I get asked quite often. Most of the time, my answer is something like this: “I use it to summarize texts. I also draft ideas together with the AI, and it helps me write content more efficiently.” But this is just one piece of the puzzle. In automation scenarios within the Power Platform, I also utilize AI for data correction. Today, I will explain how this process works. In detail,…

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Pretty Print JSON within Flows

Pretty Print JSON within Flows

Some weeks ago I prepared my presentation about AI Foundry Content Understanding for the Baltic Summit 2025 at Gdansk, Poland. In detail, I have built a small model-driven app as frontend for my demo. My goal was to upload first my PDF file into my Dataverse table from my app. Next, I would start my automation scenario based on Power Automate flows. After completion of my content understanding analyzer, I would then show the resulting JSON in my app. So,…

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Content Understanding from Power Platform

Content Understanding from Power Platform

In one of my last blog posts I introduced my new friend AI Foundry Content Understanding to you. Here I have explained in detail how you can set up Microsoft’s new AI service offering for your documents. Furthermore, I showed you how I deployed my document analyzer in Azure. As result of this exercise, I got an endpoint that I can now use in one of my use cases. In other words, now I can start working with my custom…

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PowerApps Automation – Run Once!

PowerApps Automation – Run Once!

Creating Model-Driven Apps (MDA) is very efficient for me. I can design forms and views for my Dataverse tables in minutes. Furthermore, adding these tables to my app takes only seconds. Plus, I can add since a while Power Fx commands to my App in the Command Bar. However, executing Power Automate flows can sometimes be tricky. That’s why I’m sharing my Automation Run Once solution today, which helps prevent Power Automate flows from running twice. Recently, I noticed that…

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Enable Re-submit of Power Automate Flow

Enable Re-submit of Power Automate Flow

Hey community, were you also surprised by the error message “Flow run resubmissions are disabled for instant flows…” this week? Well, I was because suddenly I couldn’t re-submit my Power Automate flow anymore from the designer. I saw just this message: What happened? A colleague pointed me in the right direction. He told me, that Microsoft rolled out a new feature: Resubmit flow runs initiated by instant triggers, that become active. The new setting for resubmitting flow runs initiated by…

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PDF Viewer in a Custom Page

PDF Viewer in a Custom Page

Custom Pages are great because I can use them to enrich my model-driven apps with individual controls and content. In other words, a custom page brings the power of canvas apps into my model-driven apps. For example, I can design dialogs or panes with the flexibility of the canvas designer, including the canvas app controls. Recently, I learned that not all controls are available in custom pages. In my case, I wanted to visualize a previously scanned PDF document to…

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Amazon S3 Bucket (Independent Publisher)

Amazon S3 Bucket (Independent Publisher)

Using AWS S3 buckets from Microsoft Power Platform is limited when you use standard connectors. In other words, you can list buckets and read the content of objects. But you can’t move your data to an AWS S3 bucket with the standard connector. So, what can I do? Right, a custom connector for AWS S3 is the solution. But my journey to a working connector was not so easy as expected. In other words, I faced challenges and solved a…

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Power Platform – Trigger Environment Activity

Power Platform – Trigger Environment Activity

You know the story, sometimes other things are more important and you forget to clean up. What happen is, after a while you get an email from Microsoft. Right, this email reminds you about the automated cleanup of my inactive Power Platform environments. This is good, because it helps to reduce unneeded resources. I got this email from one of my Demo Environments: In detail, I use this Dataverse Environment to simulate Application Lifecycle Management for Power Platform. In this…

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Intelligent Assistant improved with PCF

Intelligent Assistant improved with PCF

In my last blog post I showed you, how fast you can setup and build your own Intelligent Assistant. I used OpenAI in Azure and implemented a very simple user interface in a canvas app. That was done in less than 30 minutes. Nevertheless, the first approach is rarely the optimal one. There is always room for improvement, as the following example shows. When I ask my Intelligent Assistant to give me a C# example, following happens: Yes, the answer…

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