Thank you note for all the subscribers of PowerofD365 YouTube channel, I touched 600 subscribers on my channel today.

I was able to deliver 59 videos on free learning for the community which was viewed for 19,814 minutes equivalent to 330 hours or 115 Hollywood movies. The important playlists are in the below image:

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Exploring the updates from Microsoft Product group is always very exciting. Today I am going to take you through my first impressions on the Dynamics 365 Relevance search intelligence related offerings that have been introduced on to Dynamics 365.

Step 1: Let us see where to turn this on in Settings area (Power platform admin Center -> Settings -> Products -> Features):

Step 2: Once you turn the toggle on, you will need to accept the privacy policy and click Enable:

Next Click Save on bottom right corner (scroll might be required on the Settings page):

Step 3: Let us try using acronyms for the company name Dynamisity Pvt Ltd – I have used dyn pvt and it returns back the results quiet well:

Step 4: Let us try if it can understand the commonly used terms and return back some data. This time I am searching for deep somani and it still fairly gives out the results:

Step 5: Let us try searching numeric in form of strings. In this example, I am searching for District 9 as District Nine:

For a detailed read, refer here: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/intelligence-in-relevance-search/

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Often I was being asked in various Power platform implementations to have the ability to send Push notifications for Model driven PowerApps. Well  now we can send a Push notification to a Model driven PowerApps as well for the Mobile based scenarios.

Let us look at a sample scenario using Contact entity and try to send a push notification.

We will start with configuring an Automated Cloud flow.

Step 1:

Select the appropriate trigger and click Next:

Step 2: On the next screen, select Trigger Condition as Create, The entity name as Contact and Scope as Organization:

Step 3: Select Send Push notification V2(Preview) as a new Step. Notice that you have options to select Mobile App for PowerApps as well as Field service app. Great indeed!

Step 4: In our example, I am selecting CRM Hub as the App – in real implementation scenarios you can pick the app where you want to show the notification. You can also choose to Open the App, specify entity name, record id to make it a seamless mobile experience for the end user:

Step 5: Save and Test Flow and see Push notifications enabled for your Mobile experiences in PowerApps.

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First of all, thanks for being an avid reader of my blog. Since last month, I have added a new section to the

way you can learn along with me since last month.

Power Advise: My weekly podcast that is published every Wednesday:

A link is available now on the Menu of my blog as well:

Hope you enjoy the learning, you can also subscribe to the Podcast on all available Podcast stores in case you search for Power Advise.

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Overview:

In this article, we are going to see how to create a custom option set field and add dynamic options to the custom option set using JavaScript.

Step 1: Create an Option set field and add one option.

Step 2: Declare an array and Store three values.

Step 3: Write the script below.

function setOptions(executionContext)

{

var formContext = executionContext.getFormContext();

var optionCode = formContext.getControl(arg);

optionCode.clearOptions();

countryArray = [“India”,”Singapore”,”Malaysia”];

var index = 1;

for (var i=0; i< countryArray.length; i++)

{

var Name = countryArray[i];

var obj = {};

obj[“text”] = Name;

obj[“value”] = index;

optionCode.addOption(obj);

index = index + 1;

}

}

Step 4: Deploy the Web resource and add the function on the OnLoad event of the form.

Output:

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In one of the projects, we had a requirement to give a quick ability to users to give a monthly filter for the records created. Here is how we solved this problem using a low code way.

Let us take example of Contact entity.

Navigate to Contact entity and Click on Show Chart

Create New from here:

Chart designer will be opened for the user, please configure it as below:

On the Contact entity view, Select the chart Contacts by Created on and see the results:

This way the month filters are available to the user in an intuitive experience.

Note: In this example, I have used Personal charts – you can easily utilize System charts which can be published for entire organisation too.

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These are troubled times and we are all stressed as people and professionals. I wanted to pen down a quick Mantra for sharing true essence of a community for everyone.

Actively seeing communities in tech industry for past 8 years here are few key reasons you should come to a community:

· You have an active quest to learn

· You have an active thrust to share your knowledge

· You want to have role models and grow in the industry in guidance who have been around.

· You do not want to prove people wrong, rather want to learn from new ideas and experience.

· You do not wish to make any benefits for yourself rather share and care.

· You have an open mind and not a closed one.

In the time of crisis caused by the health and economic factors surrounding us, when many professionals are stressed – communities bring out the best out of us for helping out each other.

Follow this mantra and spread the positive aura:

· Converse!

· Share!

· Care!

· Be compassionate and passionate.

· Have empathy.

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PowerApp portals often have ongoing changes to enable or disable certain features or to have new additions to the customer Portal.

While we are doing such maintenance activity it is often a need to take the website in maintenance mode so that any end user doesn’t accidentally use the portal at that stage.

Below are the steps one can use to configure this:

Step 1: Click on Portal Actions in PowerApps Portal Admin center:

Step 2: Select Enable Maintenance mode

Step 3: You can either chose Default page or Custom page as an option. In our case, I am selecting default page:

Step 4: And the result:

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