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Power Chatform - Episode 2 - I have a flaming spatula on my calf
In this episode I speak to Emma D’Arcy and Chris Huntingford. Emma is a pre-sales consultant for ClickDimensions base in Philadelphia, a...
Matt Collins-Jones
May 14, 2020


Translate Text using Azure Cognitive Services in Canvas Apps
Canvas Apps have so much Power! You can make really complicated functionality and connections into the application which have near...
Matt Collins-Jones
Apr 28, 2020


Use Power Automate for currency conversions
I blogged recently about embedding canvas apps into Model-driven apps and how this can now be easily done. As part of my Scottish Summit...
Matt Collins-Jones
Mar 23, 2020


Call a Power Automate Flow from Custom button in Dataverse/CDS/D365
Power Automate has a lot of advantages over Classic Workflows. I’ve given presentations on this topic and it’s an ongoing conversation...
Matt Collins-Jones
Feb 17, 2020


Connect XrmToolBox with MFA Step-by-Step guide
There is no denying that the XrmToolBox is one of the best collections of tools for any developer, consultant, business analyst or...
Matt Collins-Jones
Feb 10, 2020


5 people who inspired me in 2019
As we move forward from 2019 into 2020, I wanted to write about the people that inspire me, the people who, when I see them do something,...
Matt Collins-Jones
Dec 30, 2019


Calculate Age as Whole Number using Power Automate
This problem has annoyed me for a couple of years. I’ve used several methods over the years to calculate age in D365 from Business Rules,...
Matt Collins-Jones
Dec 12, 2019


Flic and Flow - Trigger a Flow with a physical button
I was chatting to a good friend of mine, Iain Connolly about...something and we ended up talking about SmartHome devices. He sent me a...
Matt Collins-Jones
May 1, 2019


Flow - Item not in Dynamic content but returned in JSON?
I’ve been doing some work with Flow recently, specifically around approvals which I’ve written about here. I’m creating an approval...
Matt Collins-Jones
Apr 16, 2019


Word Templates - Advanced Features
In the first two parts to this blog series, we learned how to create a simple letter/mailmerge as well as Quotes using repeating lines in...
Matt Collins-Jones
Feb 9, 2019
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