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How to limit the responses in Microsoft Forms or send email on behalf of DL?


Friyank Parikh's avatarThe Tech Burst

Hi All,

Welcome,
Today we will see how to limit the number of responses in Microsoft Forms aka Customer Voice.

We have a survey, and customer can fill and submit this survey.
But, Requirement is to allow only first 5 customer to reply not more than that.

So Before this brand new customer voice product, this feature was not available in Microsoft forms
But now, Microsoft has come up with really good options and helped many organization 🙂

Thank you Microsoft.


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Sub grid and form tabs improvements in Power Apps Mobile App


There are couple of improvements in user experience for sub grids and form tab in Power Apps Mobile app.

Check other blog posts on Release 2020 Wave 2

  • Headers are more protruding for sub grid to separate it from rest of the sections of the form.
  • There is also an option (+ New Case – below) to add new record inline for empty sub grids.

  • Commands on sub grid opens as a drawer from the bottom of the screen.

  • Form tabs can be scrolled horizontally and selecting the tab automatically adjusts the header.

Hope it helps..

Displaying SharePoint RichText field as HTML interpreted in SSRS


HowCanIHelpYou?'s avatarHowCanIHelpYou?

SSRS Reports have a placeholder property HTML – Interpret HTML tags as styles. That property allows you to use HTML tags while displaying report.

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We have to face the problem when we want to display SharePoint`s RichText field content is SSRS Report. RichText field may contain some characters that are stored different in SharePoint DB and cannot be interpreted by SSRS as HTML (eg. :, &, {, <, >,  list elements, etc.)

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PowerAutomate: Self-reference is not supported when updating the value of variable


Ajit Patra's avatarAjit Patra

We often come across requirements in which we want to add certain value to the same variable e.g. for integer variable, x=x+5 or for string variable, test=test+”additional”.

We were trying to achieve the same thing using PowerAutomate. However, while doing this using Set Variable action, we got an error saying “Self-reference is not supported when updating the value of variable”.

Below is what we were trying to do inside Apply to each action and the expression is: add(variables(‘Service Delivery Type Total Amount’),items(‘Apply_to_each_Service_Delivery_Type’)?[‘dxc_amount’])

As this is not possible using PowerAutomate at the moment, we achieved it using another variable of same type in the middle as shown below:

And, inside Apply to each action, we added the following Set Variable actions:

Expression for the above action: add(variables(‘Dummy Service Delivery Type Amount’), items(‘Apply_to_each_Service_Delivery_Type’)?[‘dxc_amount’])

Hope it helps !!

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Use custom browser protocol to launch desktop applications from Dynamics 365


Recently we had a requirement to launch a .NET desktop application installed in the user’s machine from within Dynamics 365 and also pass parameters to it.

One of the ways of implementing is by using the Custom URL Protocol.

Modern browsers and operating systems allow us to implement a custom URL protocol and register an external application to handle it. So when a user clicks  on the link that uses that custom URL Protocol, the browser will open the application that is registered.

Check a few examples here

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/launch-resume/launch-app-with-uri

So, let us start and register our Custom URL Protocol.

Below is the source code for creating a new key


var applicationPath = @"C:\MyParamApp\MyApp\bin\Debug\MyApp.exe";
var KeyTest = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Software", true).OpenSubKey("Classes", true);
RegistryKey key = KeyTest.CreateSubKey("OpenAppP");
key.SetValue("URL Protocol", "OpenAppP");
key.CreateSubKey(@"shell\open\command").SetValue("", "\"" + applicationPath + "\" \"%1\"");

Here OpenAppP is the protocol name and the application path that holds the path of application that we want to execute.

For key.CreateSubKey we have specified %1 for passing the parameter.

If we do not want to pass the parameter then we do not need to append it.

On running the above code, we can see the key added with the value specified

Below is the source code of our console application, basically it reads and writes the parameter in the output window.

Below is our Html page that we will call from within a button on a form from Dynamics 365 and which will open the MyApp.exe in turn.

Here we have published the page in Azure.

The html page on onload will retrieve the id query parameter and append it to the link for the custom protocol

OpenAppP:id

Back in CRM, we have a custom ribbon button named Open Console App added with the following definition.

Url Command Action and Crm Parameter in it to pass the id.

Clicking on the button

as expected, opens the alert along with opening the console app with the parameter passed to it.

Get more details

https://www.vdoo.com/blog/exploiting-custom-protocol-handlers-in-windows

Hope it helps..

 

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