Category: Artificial Intelligence

Power Pages single-page apps: Create a “Hello World!” website

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Power Pages has a lot of great features to build powerful websites that are directly connected to business data in Microsoft Dataverse. Makers can build web pages with static content as well as data connected components such as lists and forms that are based on model-driven Power Apps forms and views. To further extend your… Continue reading Power Pages single-page apps: Create a “Hello World!” website

Power Pages: Tired of filling forms? Use an agent!

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Have you heard of AI agents? 🤣 Agents are now popping up everywhere and Power Pages is no exception. The ability to create a site agent that can answer questions based on your site content has been available for a while. A new feature (in preview) has been announced where you can start with a… Continue reading Power Pages: Tired of filling forms? Use an agent!

Power Pages: Stop using the default maintenance mode page!

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There are times when you need to do some work on your Microsoft Dataverse backend that could affect users and visitors to your Power Pages website. Things like a data migration, solution imports, or enabling new features. To ensure your visitors won’t get timeouts or weird error messages, a good practice is the put the… Continue reading Power Pages: Stop using the default maintenance mode page!

I recreated Dynamics CRM with the Power Platform Plan designer

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Canvas PowerApps, Common Data Service, Copilot, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, low-code, Model Driven PowerApps, Portals, Power App, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power Platform, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps PortalsLeave a comment

In January 2003 after many months of engineering and development, Microsoft released one of the first business solutions built-in house; Microsoft Business Solutions Customer Relationship Management (CRM). This of course evolved into Dynamics CRM, of which much of the technical foundation became Dataverse, the bedrock of the Power Platform. I just rebuilt Dynamics CRM in… Continue reading I recreated Dynamics CRM with the Power Platform Plan designer

AI Builder: Update Dataverse currency exchange rates

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One of the Microsoft Dataverse features that doesn’t get a lot of attention is currency fields. Too lazy to read? Check out the video version: I have blogged about currency codes in Dataverse (then known as CDS) in the past (in 2020) and for the most part, the underlying technology hasn’t changed. To quickly recap;… Continue reading AI Builder: Update Dataverse currency exchange rates

Low-code is Dead. Long live Vibe Coding!

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Canvas PowerApps, Cloud, Dataverse, low-code, Model Driven PowerApps, Power App, PowerApps2 Comments

Thank you (and sorry) for indulging my click bait title. 🙂 Also, the following is my own personal opinion, and in no way looking to offend or scare professional developers or low-code makers. Here is the video version of this blog post: There is a new buzzword term making the rounds that you may have… Continue reading Low-code is Dead. Long live Vibe Coding!

Power Platform Plan Designer (Preview)

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Canvas PowerApps, Cloud, Common Data Service, Configuration, Copilot, Dataverse, Development, Dynamics 365, Flow, Learning, low-code, Model Driven PowerApps, Power App, Power Automate, Power Platform, Power Platform Admin Center, PowerApps1 Comment

Currently rolling out to preview environments is the new Power Platform Plan Designer, a tool that will allow you to use generative AI to describe, plan, and build your business solution using Power Platform technologies. Read the announcement from Microsoft: Build user-focused intelligent solutions in Power Apps, start with a plan. Here is the video… Continue reading Power Platform Plan Designer (Preview)

Copilot for Power Pages Pro-developers!

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Copilot, Dataverse, liquid, Portals, Portals, Power Apps Portals, Power Pages, Power Platform, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps Portals, Visual Studio Code1 Comment

There seems to be a Copilot popping up everywhere in Microsoft products these days. (I am eagerly waiting for the Notepad Copilot!) The latest Copilot to make an appearance now surfaces in Visual Studio Code (desktop) while editing and configuring a Power Pages website. Writing code for Power Pages has sometimes proven to be a… Continue reading Copilot for Power Pages Pro-developers!

Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Azure, Cloud, Dataverse, DevOps, Flow, Learning, Power App, Power Pages, Power Platform, PowerApps, PowerBI1 Comment

Earlier this month I was a judge at the Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge, also referred to as ACDC. When I was originally asked if I wanted to go to ACDC, of course I said yes, AC/DC is one of my favourite bands. However, instead of a Highway to Hell, I took a flight to Oslo… Continue reading Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge