A common scenario in using any application is to directly access a specific screen within the application without landing on the home page first. This feature is called Deep Linking and it greatly helps to improve the efficiency of the workflow. For example, if you want to show someone the Google search results of a […]
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It’s quite common to archive a file on a monthly basis. Though it is a very simple task, sometimes it is quite annoying to force yourself to remember doing so. So we can write a simple flow to automate this repetitive task. Choice of Flow and Trigger Because this is a routine task, the most
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Being a city-state, Singapore has developed a very comprehensive 6 digit postal code system and you can locate almost any places in Singapore by using the magical 6 digits. Building on it, the Singapore government took the digitalization initiatives to gather many useful day-to-day information and services contributed by various government agencies like ACRA, HDB,
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Sometimes business processes will need to know the location of the users and depending on the returned value, different actions will be taken. For example, Office365 retail version can only be activated in the region where it is purchased, and the data sharing from your WhatsApp client to Facebook does not work in India thanks
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When building applications using Power Apps, there are occasions where we need to display a large piece of information to the user (such as User Policy, Privacy Statement, etc) or allow users to download a template file so later they can submit for batch processing (such as template batch file for SAP processing). In this
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Sometimes you may encounter the situation where Power Apps just could not display all the content that you want to show to users, it could be a long article like User Policy or Privacy Statement, or some multi media content you want to play, or simply a third party service you want users to access.
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Sometimes after a required host system reboot, existing Docker containers may be locked by AppArmor and show “Permission denied” error. Basically you lost control on your containers and you cannot stop/start any of your containers. I won’t be able to explain how or why this happens but I do find a simple solution to unlock
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When we design solutions for a department application or even an enterprise application using Power Apps, sometimes we need to provide the capability for selecting anyone within the organization to send an email notice or to initiate a working process. Power Apps does provide a standard function for this under the Office 365 Users connector:
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