In this blog, I want to dive into Power Automate. When I first started with the Power Platform I dove deep into Power BI which then made way for Power Apps. Soon thereafter I was introduced to Power Automate. I sure wish someone had told me about Power Automate when I was a teacher of middle schoolers. There were so many mundane daily and weekly tasks that I could have easily automated if I just would have been exposed to the program. Power Automate is great for taking those routine or repetitive tasks and making them no longer a part of your daily routine. Sure setting up the Power Automate flow takes more time to get created, but once created you then can devote all that extra time you normally would have devoted to the task and now spend them on more mission-critical issues for your job. In this video, I want to show you how you can send an automated email with just a click of a button. Since I learned Power Automate after lea...
In this blog, I am excited to release my 2nd episode in my new series covering the Power Platform. If you have ever created Canvas Apps and have not used Global Variables, you will want to keep reading. Global variables allow you as the app developer to design your application with fewer lines of code and in some cases avoid delegation warnings. Global variables have many use case scenarios because you can call upon a global variable within any screen or control in your application. For this video, I explore two use case scenarios for Global variables. The first is to store custom colors that you want to re-use during your app design. The second is able to retrieve information like email, display name, manager's information, etc. about the current user who is utilizing your application. Check out this video and see how easy it is to declare Global Variables in canvas applications. If you enjoy this video and are interested in formal traini...