Business Central Workflows with Power Automate integration
Workflows in Business Central can be managed in two ways:
– Native mode
– Via Power Automate
Tag Archives: Power
Monitoring Power Query Memory Usage With Query Diagnostics In Power BI
In the April release of Power BI Desktop the Power Query Query Diagnostics feature was enhanced so that you can now return performance counter data. As the blog post says:
When you run performance counters, every half second Power Query will take a snapshot of resource utilization. This isn’t useful for very fast queries but can be helpful for queries that use up a lot more resources.
Sending Power BI Alerts To Users Via Teams Using Power Automate And Adaptive Cards
A few months ago my esteemed colleague Patrick LeBlanc published a great video showing how you could use Power Automate (formerly known as Microsoft Flow) to send an email when a Power BI alert is triggered. This post is going to cover almost the same ground, except that I’m going to show you how to send an alert to a user via Teams and instead of dynamically generating text for the message I’m going to use an Adaptive Card to format the alert data.
Interface with Power Automate – is it really so easy?
During NAV TechDays 2019 there were a lot of sessions that I would describe as “develop Business Central doing minimum development using AL“. Sounds weird? For me yes… at least at the beginning.
Speakers, such as Arend-Jan Kauffmann (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp848e9WBFs), showed how to connect Business Central with Power Apps or use Power Automate (previously named Flow) and our BC. And my first impression was – noooo way it can be so easy.
Great event that you certainly don’t want to miss!!!
The Dutch 365 Saturday team have managed to make a great line up for the event in #Amsterdam on May 18! This year not only #CustomerEngagement but also #BusinessCentral, #FinanceAndOperations and the #PowerPlatform
Want to know what’s coming up? Check bit.ly/365amsterdam and sign up
Running M Queries In Visual Studio With The Power Query SDK
Writing M in the Advanced Editor in Excel or Power BI can be a frustrating experience unless you’re the kind of masochist who loves writing code in Notepad.
Thoughts On Power Query/Common Data Service Integration
Yesterday there was a webinar on how Power Query is going to be used as the way to load data into the Microsoft Common Data Service. You can watch it online here (if you’re in a hurry, skip to 24 minutes in for the details on the Power Query integration):