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Peter Farrell
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Husband, Daddy, Power Platformer, Tifoso, Dovahkiin
Tyrone, Ireland
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No, you can't borrow the mouse!
August 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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#Kneecap on tour!
July 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Beautiful morning in Phuket!
July 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Grok has the same embarrassing personality that its creator does. How can anyone take this model seriously? Dude, you can’t sit with us.
July 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Power Automate, Power Apps and Microsoft Forms
Power Apps are great, but they aren’t always the solution. But this is a Power Platform blog! Why am I telling you to not write Power Apps? Sometimes when you have a hammer, every problem loo…
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May 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Creating Custom Pages for Model-driven Apps
In our last post we created a custom connector to read data from our Market Vehicles API. We updated our existing scheduled Power Automate flow to use our new connector, but now we look into how we…
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May 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Working with APIs Part 2: Creating a Custom Connector
In our last post we created a test API using Mockaroo and then integrated it into our LaRusso Autos solution with a scheduled Power Automate flow that sends a weekly email based on the output from …
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May 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Working with APIs Part 1: Creating a test API
What is an API? The short answer is that it’s an acronym for Application Programming Interface – but what does that mean, and how can we use APIs in our Power Platform projects? APIs pr…
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April 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Eh, close enough.
April 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Scenic pints
April 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Building Canvas Apps Part 5: Working with larger datsets – Pagination and Filtering
In our last post we learned how to use Power Automate Instant flows to fetch data for our Vehicle Servicing app. We didn’t set any limit on how many rows could be returned from our flow on th…
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April 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Building Canvas Apps Part 4: Filtering Datasets and Delegation with Power Automate
In our last post we took more control of the look and feel of our canvas app, using custom controls instead of Forms to improve the look and feel of our application. As outlined, this imposes more …
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April 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Building Canvas Apps Part 3: Custom Forms, Containers and Patching
In our last post we built a very simple canvas app using Forms, Galleries and our Service table. Forms are one of the quickest and easiest ways to build a simple CRUD application (Create, Read, Upd…
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April 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Building Canvas Apps Part 2: The Basics of Galleries and Forms
As outlined in the previous post, today we will build a canvas app! There are many great tools available to create a canvas app at the click of a button, including: Describing the problem scenario …
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March 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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#serverlessdays #serverlessdaysbelfast #wardleymapping #simonwardley… | ServerlessDays Belfast
🚨 KEYNOTE ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨 We’re beyond excited to announce that the legendary Simon Wardley will be our keynote speaker at ServerlessDays Belfast! 🎤✨ You…
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March 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Building Canvas Apps Part 1: Considerations
The very first post I wrote for this blog outlined why you should build a model-driven app. Now, after six months of writing about all the great things we can build with model-driven apps, we final…
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March 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Enhancing Power Apps with Power Automate – Part 3: Instant Flows
In our previous post we looked at Automated Flows, which are triggered in response to some other event. By contrast, Instant Flows are those triggered on demand. Examples of such flows include thos…
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March 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Enhancing Power Apps with Power Automate – Part 2: Automated Flows
In our previous post, we used a Scheduled Flow to send out a weekly email reminder. In this post we’ll look into Automated Flows – those that are triggered by some platform event occurr…
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March 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Enhancing Power Apps with Power Automate – Part 1: Introduction
Many people don’t realise that the required user licenses for model-driven apps include Power Automate functionality in the cost, with the ability to run flows with premium functionality. Thi…
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February 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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February 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Creating Custom Views on the User table with XRMToolbox
Every Dataverse enabled Power Platform environment has a User table. In any environment, the User table contains the records of all licensed Power Platform users in your Microsoft tenant who have a…
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February 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Bulk Importing Data using Dataflows Part 5: Multiple Tables – Application Records
In this post, we conclude our series by importing all our application records – in our case, we are adding all the new Vehicles into our LaRusso Autos app. Along the course of this series, we…
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February 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Finally finished!
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February 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Bulk Importing Data using Dataflows Part 4: Multiple Tables – Related Reference Tables
At this stage in our series of posts, we’ve familiarised ourselves with: Dataflows and the range of data sources available. Using Power Query to transform imported data. Using Power FX in cus…
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February 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Bulk Importing Data using Dataflows Part 3: Multiple Tables – Reference Tables
Having set out our plan in the previous post, we begin by importing data into our “Reference” tables. These are tables that: are rarely updated have no foreign key dependencies on other…
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January 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM