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Creating Service Principals for Dataverse: A Practical Guide
When building Power Platform solutions, there are times when a flow, integration, pipeline, script, or external service needs to connect to Dataverse without relying on a…
Working on Power Platform projects with GitHub Copilot – Part 1
Introduction If you work in software development today, it is nearly impossible to avoid discussions about Artificial Intelligence. Whether you are building enterprise applications, creating automations,…
Building Dynamic Word Documents in Power Platform using Model Driven apps and Power Automate
Generating Word documents is one of the most underrated features in the Power Platform. Most organizations still rely heavily on documents for reports, approvals, summaries, intake…
Copilot Studio and AI builder – Better together. Post 4 – Automating Resume Intake with Power Automate
Introduction A key pillar of the Talent Intake System is automation. While earlier posts covered the structure of the Dataverse tables and the Model-Driven App used…
Copilot Studio and AI builder – Better together. Post 3 – Power Pages: Creating a Public Application Submission Form
Introduction When building a modern, end-to-end hiring platform on the Power Platform, one of the most critical pieces is the public-facing application form. It needs to…
Copilot Studio and AI builder – Better together. Post 2 – Building the Core: Dataverse Table Relationship Design, and Model Driven App
Introduction Before automating anything or designing a user interface, I needed to make sure the data model was solid. Since the Talent Intake System relies on…
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