Past Meetings

In this session we'll demonstrate how you can use a little bit of code to make Flow even more powerful. The session is intended for every level of Flow user, as long as you have a good understanding of Flow's capabilities and it's purpose. For as much as Flow can do there are just as many things it can't and when you reach the end of Flow's capabilities you may require a little bit of code to help your project to the finish line. This is primarily a demo session and we'll show how to build custom Flow plugins, from scratch, that leverage Azure Functions to extend Flows capabilities. The session focuses on two areas of extending out of the box flow capabilities. 1. Handling data validation that can't be accomplished using out-of-the-box functions 2. Extending existing connectors to provide more capabilities to grow your Flow to places never seen before. Make sure to stay tuned all the way to the end!
 

Model Driven and Canvas based PowerApps provide incredibly powerful tools for building business applications for internal users. What about external audiences such as customers and partners? The Power Platform April 2019 release notes indicate the arrival of PowerApps Portals, which is based on the Dynamics 365 Portals platform. This session provides an introduction to building a Model Driven App and the steps to securely expose it to an external audience via the PowerApps Portals.

Impress your friends! Dazzle your peers! Win the admiration of your less well-informed colleagues! Attend this session to discover what is certain to be your favoritest Power BI feature! Learn from 14-time MVP Matt Wittemann how to unlock a mystical, cryptic, and almost preternatural power of Power BI to turn raw, value-less data into data gold!
 

Microsoft Forms Pro was made generally available on July 1st 2019. In a magical combination, Microsoft Forms has been given a much needed boost by storing responses in the Common Data Service, and therefore providing the ability to use the flexibility of Microsoft Flow to give organisations a powerful solution to request and analyse feedback from customers. Let’s take a look at the top business benefits of Forms Pro!
 

In this session, we will review the origins, history, and architecture of the Common Data Service. We will see how some of the inheritance of their SQL 2000 based ancestors still show up today, and how they impact us. We will also discuss some of the complexities of the data modelling on the CDS, and what is the impact of all those options we have when creating new entities. We will review How and When to use some of the different particular data types and their limitations. Finally, we will discuss some of the crucial design decisions when building your data model.