Microsoft • Page 8 of 11 • Tomasz Poszytek, Business Applications MVP

Introduction to Adaptive Cards

Some time ago a customer asked me about a more effective user experience when approving tasks in workflows. The reason was that a manager, who was always involved at some time, was on the position, that if he is just sent an e-mail with approval request, this e-mail is going to simply get lost in his inbox and therefore he wouldn’t be able to respond. On the other hand he is using Microsoft Teams often, so asked if he can be notified about a task approval via that app.

May 14, 2019

Office 365

Microsoft Forms Pro – personalization

In my previous post I have presented in details how the new Forms Pro differs from its older brother – Forms. Since then, having the possibility to play around with the new product, I would like now to describe you it’s outstanding feature – option for personalization.

April 18, 2019

Power Apps Power Automate

Import XML to PowerApps

When preparing for a new project, I started to check whether different customer expectations are feasible with PowerApps. The first of these is the ability to use an XML file as input, to build a table in the application and possibly to save them to SQL later.

March 22, 2019

Office 365

Microsoft Forms Pro – review

Microsoft Forms application has been in Office 365 for quite a time. As soon as it was made available to commercial tenants, I made a post in which I reviewed the product and compared it to Google Forms. Almost two years have passed and we have a new product – Microsoft Forms in the Pro version. What is that? Read on!

March 15, 2019

Nintex Workflow for Office 365 Office 365 Power Automate SharePoint Online

Discovering suspended workflows with Microsoft Flow

In my daily work over business processes in Office 365, specifically in SharePoint Online, one thing annoys me the most – namely the lack of mechanisms to inform me that the workflow has hung up – that it is in a “Suspended” state.

The solution for that issue is not provided by Microsoft or Nintex – the company with which products I have been working for a quite long time. There are only workarounds, but they are inadequate, and I wanted to be able to react proactively and not reactively to any flow suspension event.

March 2, 2019

Office 365

Microsoft Flow is not only for business

This post is not about solving problems. Or business real life case-studies. This post is about what can you do with tools from Office 365 suite. I am documenting here the solution I built to make my home a little smart and to make my life easier.

January 27, 2019

Power Apps

End user receives pop-up asking for permission when launching PowerApps

I’m a big fan of working with PowerApps and creating business solutions using that tool. Until last week I wasn’t aware, that when I use specific permissions to access data sources (SharePoint in that case) inside my app, the end user who is going to use that app will be asked for permissions, to be able to use that application.

December 27, 2018

Power Apps Power Automate

PowerApps hand written signature

Customer asked me if this is possible to add handwritten signature to a PDF generated using tools available in Office 365. My first thought was “no”, then I checked that there is “Pen input” control in PowerApps, so it was like “yes”. Then again, after searching “how” this signature can be put inside a document, I thought this is a “no”.

December 3, 2018

Power Bi

Power BI DATEDIFF only working days, hours and so on…

I recently found myself in a situation, when I needed to calculate a date difference between two datetime values in Power BI excluding weekends. The request seemed first as an easy thing, until I found out, that Power BI doesn’t have any function allowing to achieve it easily.

October 26, 2018

Introduction to Adaptive Cards

Microsoft Forms Pro – personalization

Import XML to PowerApps

Microsoft Forms Pro – review

Discovering suspended workflows with Microsoft Flow

Microsoft Flow is not only for business

End user receives pop-up asking for permission when launching PowerApps

PowerApps hand written signature

Power BI DATEDIFF only working days, hours and so on…

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Access Graph API with application account – my ultimate guide

Access SharePoint API with application account – my ultimate guide

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Migrating Nintex repeating section to Power Apps