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Blaine Wildrick

I am an experienced application administrator who focuses on the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics CE product. I have been a consultant since 2019.

Model Driven Apps

Enable Dark Mode in Model-Driven Apps

Your model-driven app can go from this: To this: To enable dark mode, simply append the following string to your model-driven app url: &flags=themeOption%3Ddarkmode Your url should look something like: And voila, dark mode enabled! 💡Dark mode does not persist after closing your browser or leaving the

Power Platform - Form Fill Assist Toolbar

This post will introduce the Form Fill Assist toolbar found in model-driven apps and how we can enable it in our apps. The form fill toolbar contains both Smart Paste, which is the ability to read your clipboard and fill in fields on the current record, and the ability to

Power Automate - Quick Tip - First Expression

Have you come across a case where you need to List Rows with a filter applied and expect to only receive a single record returned? When you try to access attributes of the single record, the action is wrapped in an Apply To Each loop even though only a single

JavaScript - Store Variable in Browser

Here is a quick tip when using JavaScript in the context of Main forms and opening Quick Create forms. In this scenario, I have an attribute on the Main form that I need to reference in a function that exists on the Quick Create form that I am opening. However,

Managed Environments

Managed Environments

Managing Power Platform at scale can be challenging, especially as more users and citizen developers join your organization. Without proper governance, things can quickly spiral out of control. That’s where Power Platform Managed Environments come in! They provide admins with powerful tools to enforce governance, improve security, and gain

Power Automate - Quick Tip - Viewing Run History

Here is a quick Power Automate tip that you may not be aware of. Have you got a flow you are working with and potentially troubleshooting and you need to filter through the run history to find a particular instance of the run? In the past we could just filter

Power CAT Tools - Risk Assessment

Introducing another tool found in the Power CAT Tools Toolkit - The Risk Assessment Tool! Let's talk about what it is and why you should care. The Risk Assessment Tool allows administrators to create risk profiles that can be used to assess existing security roles to in order

Word Templates in Dynamics 365 CE

Document Templates

Word Templates in Dynamics 365 CE

Recently I had a colleague reach out asking for some help putting together a Word Template that contained a repeating section. Sure, there are plenty of articles out there on how to do this, but what they found was that many of the articles were incorrect, outdated, or didn'

Customer Insights

CI/J Marketing forms - View Changes Immediately

Do you have a request to add JavaScript to a marketing form in Customer Insights/Journeys? Have you added your script to the form but when previewing the form your changes just aren't showing? This can be frustrating. You may have tried refreshing once, twice, three times, no

Power CAT Tools - DocuPilot

In a previous post (found here) I introduced Power CAT Tools, what they are, and how to install them. We also took a look at the Code Review Tool (found here). In this post we will take a look at another very cool feature named DocuPilot. DocuPilot is a tool

Opportunity Pipeline View

Have you seen the Opportunity Pipeline View? You may also know this as Deal Manager. This feature can be found in Dynamics 365 Sales in the Sales Hub app. Two different visualizations are shown by default: the bubble chart and the sales funnel chart. By default, the bubble chart shows

Power CAT Tools - Code Review Tool

In the last post, we introduced Power CAT Tools and how they benefit professionals and organizations working on the Power Platform. As mentioned in the last post, there are several tools included in the Power CAT Toolkit: * Code Review * Automated code review with comprehensive guidance * DocuPilot * Automatically generates documentation from

Installing Power CAT Tools

Have you heard about Microsoft's Power Customer Advisory Team (Power CAT for short)? As a professional in the Power Platform space, you most certainly should! The Power CAT team is part of the Power Platform engineering team at Microsoft. The team puts together some pretty incredible tools to

Power Fx Container...Issue?

Curious if anyone has come across this, if not, be aware of this unusual behavior. I have a custom page that is opened from a ribbon button in a model driven app. The single screen is shown. I have built this custom page using various containers to allow for a

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