Now, just putting an Excel with some crude data in it won’t really be identified in the Canvas App you are making. Perhaps you’re missing something. Let’s say, I want to read an Excel file from OneDrive For Business into my Canvas App, I select the Excel file from the OneDrive for Business connection like below – But, I’m treated with the below error while making a connection –   Correcting your Excel Well, if your Excel looks like this – Then, that’s the reason Canvas App is not able to connect to the data in the Excel. Here’s what you need to do – click on the top left corner of where your Table should start from and then click on Table from the Insert tab as shown below Confirm that diagonal end of the Table you want to consider and click OK once confirmed Once you confirm, you’re Excel data will look like this which is correctly formatted into a Table –   Reading the Table Now that you’re set, you should be able to read the Excel file’s Table which you can connect to. Hope this quick tip helps!!  

Introduction: Using MS Flows, On any trigger, you can add the below action to rename the SharePoint folder.   Steps: 1) In Actions, select “Send an HTTP request to SharePoint” 2) Enter the below details: Site Address: Select your site address from the list. Method: POST Uri:_api/web/GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl(‘LibraryTitle/CurrentFolderName’)//ListItemAllFields Headers: Accept application/json;odata=verbose X-HTTP-Method MERGE If-Match * Body: { Title :”New Name of Folder” FileLeafRef’:”New Name of Folder” } 3) The Folder Name in Uri and new folder names in body can be dynamic as per your requirement( Refer Screenshot below: the data here is taken directly from the trigger when file is created in SharePoint). Sample Output: Conclusion: Simple SharePoint Connector in MS Flows can help to rename a SharePoint Folder.

Introduction: In this blog, we will learn how to filter Gallery based on Combo Box which is on different form.   Use Case: We have a requirement where there is a lookup field (Price List) on the Editform (Data Source: Quote Project Price List). When there is data in the lookup field the Gallery (Data Source: Role Price) should be filtered.   Steps: 1. We have an Screen which is divided into two parts:(Edit Form + Gallery)          a. Quote Project Price List Edit Form.          b. Gallery with Role Price data source. 2. Add field into the Editable Grid (Gallery). 3. The Lookup Field on the EditForm is PRICE LIST on which the gallery is suppose to be filtered. 4. To filter the Gallery set the Items property of the Gallery to the following formula, Item property: Set Gallery.Item = Filter(‘Gallery Data Source’, ‘GalleryFieldName’.Name = ‘Form Lookup Field Name(Combo Box)’.Selected.Name) For eg: GalleryRolePrice.Item=Filter(‘Role Prices’, ‘Price List’.Name=PriceListLookup.Selected.Name) 5. Output of the screen, The Gallery is not visible as the Lookup Field (Price List) is not selected. 6. After selecting the Lookup Field (Price List), the gallery is visible and also filtered on the basis of the selected field. 7. In this way the Gallery will get Filtered on the basis of the Lookup field on the EditForm.

In Dynamics 365 for Retail there are many types of discounts available which retailers can offer to customers. These discounts help the business increase the sales and also the customer base. One of the discounts is called Mix and Match Discount . A mix-and-match discount gives customers a discount when they purchase a specific combination of products. For example, a customer purchases two boxes of tea and receives 50 percent off the price of a tea cup. Products and variants can be included in mix-and-match discounts. Here is how you can configure Mix and Match discounts.   In the above screen grabs you can see two types of mix and match discounts 1) Buy one product and get 50% off on the 2nd product 2) Buy one product and get another product free(100% off) You can add more products and use them in combination to offer discounts. After you have created discounts make sure to add your retail store to the price groups Hope this helps!

A threshold discount is a discount that is given to customers when the total for a transaction reaches one or more specified amounts. For example, you could create a discount that gives a 10 percent discount for purchases over 100.00 and a flat 25.00 discount for totals over 200.00. You can set it up from the following path Retail>Pricing and discounts Once you have configured the discount as per your requirement as  shown here, do make sure you add a price group to it which has the the store mentioned where discount would be applied On POS whenever you sell an item from the Jewelry category and if the total bill is going over 1000$, customers will get 5% discount. Hope this helps!

After signing up for Zoho People subscription, you can go ahead to configure SAML authentication for Zoho People by adding it as a non-gallery application in Azure AD. While adding the gallery apps or non-gallery apps to Azure AD, one of the SSO options available is SAML based SSO. With SAML, Azure AD authenticates application by using the user’s Azure AD account. In this article, we will see how to register Zoho People as a non-gallery application in Azure AD and how we can configure SAML authentication for SSO in 3 steps. To configure SAML SSO for a non-gallery application, you need to have an Azure AD Premium subscription. Steps 1: Registering the Zoho People application. Registering Zoho People as a non-gallery application in Azure AD. Go to Azure AD > Enterprise Application > Click ‘+ New Application’. Under add an application, select a Non-gallery application.  Provide a name to the application. Here, I am providing the name Zoho People – CFT (Org name) and then click ADD. After the application is added, it will show up under the Enterprise Application list. Click on Single Sign-on, it will show up methods to configure SSO, here choose SAML. Step 2: Configuring SAML in Zoho Accounts. Before configuring SAML in Azure AD, you will need to configure SAML into Zoho accounts. Sign in to Zoho People account as an administrator and then go to My Account. You will be redirected to the Zoho Accounts page. Click SAML Authentication under Settings and then click Setup Now.  Provide the required details. You can get all the above details from Azure AD. Go to the application you registered in Step 1 and then click on Single Sign-on.Sign-In URL & Logout URL: Both the URL you can keep it as Sign-In URL (shown in below screenshot) or else leave the Logout URL blank.Note – I tried Logout URL from SAML configuration (Azure AD), but it is giving an error while logging out from Zoho People and hence keeping the Logout URL blank. Public Key: Download the certificate (Base 64) and upload it. Zoho Service: Select “People”. Algorithm: RSA (by default RSA is selected). Change password URL: This will be the same as Sign-in URL. Click Configure, it will ask to verify yourself (enter password) and then click configure. Once SAML is configured in Zoho Account, you will see the Download Metadata tab. Download Metadata which will need to be uploaded in Azure AD. Step 3: Configuring SAML in Azure AD. SAML authentication is configured on Zoho Account. Now, you will need to upload the metadata which we downloaded in Step 2. Go to Azure AD > Enterprise Application > Zoho People -CFT > Sign Sign-on. Click on the Upload metadata file. Upload the metadata file downloaded from Step 2. Once uploaded, it will open a Basic SAML configuration. You will see that the Identifier (Entity ID) and Reply URL will be populated automatically. Change the Identifier (Entity ID) from Zoho.com to Zoho.in, because we can see the URL for login in to Zoho People is zoho.in. Instead of changing Zoho.com, you can also add Zoho.in and make it as default. Click Save. Once the SAML configuration is done, go to Users and Groups and add users. After adding users in the App, the application will appear on the Access Panel for assigned users. Test the SSO with the application. Accessing Zoho Application: Directly through Zoho People URL – https://people.zoho.in/ From the Access Panel (myapps.microsoft.com), users can find the Zoho People – CFT application. From office.com – Users can fins Zoho People-CFT under all apps.  This article will help you configuring SAML authentication for Single Sign-on. If you are facing any issues with SSO, you can just configure SAML authentication for application and the end-users will be able to leverage SSO for the third-party applications.  

Introduction: We had a requirement where we wanted to show the editable grid in power apps. The fields which are suppose to show are of string, decimal and lookup. Other data type was easy to display but we find difficulties in showing the lookup value.   In this blog, we will learn how to add lookup fields(combo box) into the editable grid and also save it in Dynamics 365 CRM.   Steps: 1. Insert Gallery :  Insert a new gallery – Insert > Gallery > Blank Vertical Add Data Source to the Gallery Go to Properties > Click Data Source you want. 2. Add Combo Box input control in the PowerApps Grid.     I have added 3 Combo Box input control inside the Grid, 2 text box, 1 is currency field in the data source and a Save icon. 3. For each Combo Box input box: Item Property: Set ComboBox.Item = Choices([@’Data Source’].<Field Name>) For eg: RoleComboBoxRP_1.Item = Choices([@’Role Prices’].Role) DefaultSelectedItems property: Set ComboBox.DefaultSelectedItems = ThisItem.<Field Name> For eg: RoleComboBoxRP_1.DefaultSelectedItems = ThisItem.Role 4. For each text input box: Default property: Set TextInput.Default = ThisItem.<Field Name> For eg: DescriptionRP_1.Default = ThisItem.Description Note: Do not forget to set the <DefaultSelectedItems> properties or else the value wont be visible in the grid. 5. To Save the changed value into the Data source, set the Save Icon to the following: OnChange property: Set SaveIcon.OnChange = Patch(DataSource, ThisItem, { <fieldName>: TextInput.Text, <fieldName>:ComboBoxName.Selected, <fieldName>:Value(CurrencyTextInput.Text) }) For eg: SaveRP_1.OnChange = Patch([@’Role Prices’], ThisItem, { Role : RoleComboBoxRP_1.Selected, ‘Resourcing Unit’:ResourcingUnitComboBoxRP_1.Selected, Unit:UnitComboBoxRP_1.Selected, Description:DescriptionRP_1.Text, Price:Value(PriceRP_1.Text) }) 6. The Output Screen. 7. The changed Lookup value. If you click the Save Icon the changed values will be saved. In this way we can change the Lookup values and also Save the changed value in the Dynamics 365 CRM.

Retail Store Scale Unit allows retailers to sell products within store locations that have internet connectivity issues, where it fails to connect with headquarters (HQ). Retail Store Scale Unit support both Modern POS and Cloud POS within the store. MPOS with Retail Store Scale Unit allows users to perform cross-terminal scenarios across multiple POS devices, like Suspend Shift Close Shift Blind Close Shift Manage Shift Inventory Lookup Stock Count Print X-Report Print Z-Report whereas Cloud-based MPOS offline fails to perform these operations. MPOS with Retail Store Scale Unit fails to perform real-time operations such as Issue/pay Gift Cards Issue Loyalty Card Picking and Receiving Pay by Customer Account Credit Card transactions Order Fulfillment View/Create Time clock entries unless there is internet connectivity to HQ or a payment provider. If most of your transactions involve real-time transactions, then your Store Scale Unit will always need internet connectivity to enable the connection to HQ or payment provider.

In this blog I am going to explain you how to create a custom URL for your text column in Power BI desktop. You can create hyperlinks in tables and matrix in Power BI desktop. Before jumping to use a new feature in Power BI desktop, I am showing you how we had done previously. Step 1: Import sample data in Power BI desktop. Step 2: If the hyperlink doesn’t already exist as a field in your dataset, use Power BI Desktop to add it as custom column like “WebURL”. Step 3: In Data view, select the column and in the Modeling tab choose the dropdown for Data Category. Step 4: Select Web URL. Step 5: Switch to Report view and create a table or matrix using the field categorized as a Web URL. The hyperlinks will be blue and underlined. Step 5: If you don’t want to display a long URL in a table, you can display a hyperlink icon instead. Note that you can’t display icon in matrix. Select the table to make it active. Select the Format icon to open the Formatting tab. Expand Values, Iocate URL icon, and turn it on. Step 6: Now we want a web link on custom column, so first we uncategorized the WebURL column. In Data view, select the column and in the Modeling tab choose the dropdown for Data Category. Step 7: Switch to Report view and remove the WebURL column from the table. Select the table to make it active. Select the Format icon to open the Formatting tab. Expand Conditional formatting, select filed that you want to active hyperlink and locate Web URL, and turn it on. Step 8: Turn Web URL on, one popup will be appeared in this you have to select WebURL field and click on OK button. Step 9: Result look like below screenshot, now you hover on column field you can clearly see the hyperlink. I hope this will help you.  

Introduction: In this series of Fixed Assets aka FA, I will be teaching you through a life cycle of the Fixed Assets. How to create and acquire these fixed assets, how to depreciate the FA, and how to post transactions on Fixed Assets in Microsoft Dynamics Business Central.   Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central (ERP) Basic understanding of Fixed Assets Demonstration: 1. Creation of Fixed Assets: To create Fixed Assets search Fixed Assets and open the Fixed Asset List. Click on New (+), automatically FA No. is set up from No Series. Enter the FA Name, FA Class Type, FA Subclass Type, FA Location if you have multiple FA Locations. Creation of Fixed Asset Setup the FA Depreciation Book, by default we have COMPANY. Also set up the Depreciation Start Date and End Date or Start Date and No. of Years. Book value is the current value of the Fixed Assets. This value increases or decreases depending on your Appreciation or Depreciation of FA. 2. Acquire Fixed Assets: There are two ways you can acquire Fixed Assets i. Using Acquire Button on the Fixed Asset Card In Order to acquire the fixed asset, click on the ‘Acquire’ action on the Fixed Asset Acquire Action This will open a Wizard to get the Data from the User and convert into Fixed Asset G/L Journal Acquisition Entry Wizard to take the Data from the User.   Entering the Acquisition Cost and Posting Date   Entering the Balancing Account for Acquisition Amount   Finish the wizard.   Acquisition Entries in FA Ledger Entries ii. Posting a Purchase Order for Fixed Asset: To acquire FA using Purchase Order, insert the FA Purchase Lines. Once you post the Purchase Order, an acquisition entry will be created in FA Ledger Entries. Fixed Asset Acquisition through Purchase Order   Fixed Asset Acquired through Purchase Order 3. Post Salvage Value: To post a Salvage Value, goto Fixed Asset Journal. Insert the Entry to based on the FA No., FA posting type as Salvage Value and Amount that will be received back when Fixed Asset is disposed off. Post Salvage Value – Fixed Asset Journal You will find the Salvage Value in Statistics. According to rule Depreciable Basis  = Acquisition Value –  Salvage Value FA Statistics after Salvage Value is posted 4. Setup Depreciation:  To setup depreciation, you will need to insert the Depreciation Method, Depreciation Start Date, Depreciation End Date and No. of years. Setting up Depreciation 5. Calculate Depreciation: To create a depreciation, make use of Calculate Depreciation Report where you can set the Document No., Posting Date, you can even put the No. of depreciation days etc. Calculate Depreciation This report will create depreciation entries in FA G/L Journal. Calculate Depreciation – FA G/L Journal   Depreciation Entry 6. Disposing of a Fixed Asset: To dispose of a Fixed Asset, you need to create a Disposal Entry in FA G/L Journal FA G/L Journal Disposal   After Disposing the Fixed Asset Disposal should be done on the end date of Depreciation. After Disposing the Salvage Value is posted to Sales Account andFA Book Value becomes 0. Conclusion: In this way, I have shown you the Life cycle of a Fixed Asset. It is relatively easier to deal with Fixed Asset as it doesn’t contains any inventory and accounting is much more simpler. In my next blog I will be inclining towards advance version of Fixed Asset Understanding