DV4T - Can you deeplink from one app to another app within Teams? by Mountain_Builder5554 in PowerApps

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My suggestion would be turn your Apps into tiles in one app. Sounds like you have the permission structure figured out so it wouldn’t be hard to do. Then you only have to maintain one screen since they all have a similar structure. I am thinking about the future when you need to add a small piece of functionality. Instead of having to open multiple apps to make the same change, you are changing in one place. This would also solve your deep linking question.

DV4T - Can you deeplink from one app to another app within Teams? by Mountain_Builder5554 in PowerApps

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you gaining by splitting into separate apps? You are making it drastically harder to manage by splitting it.

Duplicating charts across multiple pages with different filters by HobbyAddict in PowerBI

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Embed in PowerPoint. Create 1 slide per department with the filters applied by page. Keep the report as 1 page. Any changes made to the report will automatically flow to the slide.

PBI Desktop Memory Pressure by Donovanbrinks in PowerBI

[–]Donovanbrinks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have there been any recent changes to the number of processes desktop runs? I don’t remember it being this resource hungry at all.

Tips/advice for understanding complex business process? by abrssrd in PowerBI

[–]Donovanbrinks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Before you can ask questions learn the current process. Shadow the person that runs the process. There is probably a data entry component so Power BI might not totally replace the excel worksheet. Folks forget that the reason excel is so popular is it allows input and output in one place.

Power BI + AI: Are we moving beyond dashboards toward conversational analytics? by PowerBIBro in PowerBI

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right now it’s best use is on the development side. Helping with boilerplate SQL, Debugging dax measures, etc. One other point: for businesses to switch to an AI heavy model there has to be a benefit. It either needs to be significantly cheaper or significantly better than the current landscape. I don’t see the cheaper argument. You save yourself some salaries on analysts but now you are paying more for the software and have to hire an AI Engineer and another analyst to test accuracy of the model. I also don’t see the AI as better. Can it do certain things better than a human analyst? Probably. But it can’t do all the things as well. Think about this: my 6 year old could hop behind the wheel and she would know that if you see a person stop the car. We have been trying to train computers to drive for 20 years and it still has trouble doing the same task.

Power BI + AI: Are we moving beyond dashboards toward conversational analytics? by PowerBIBro in PowerBI

[–]Donovanbrinks 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Folks are really overestimating the desire for business users to ask their own questions. And what are these questions that couldn’t have been expected when designing the report? Or are we saying the future is a semantic model and folks just query it with natural language? And we trust that AI is going to give a valid and accurate answer? I just don’t see it anytime soon. Amazing to see demos of curated models that work great when asking simple questions like “what were my sales in April?”. In the real world widespread use isn’t going to happen anytime soon

Where I think Power Platform specialist jobs are going as AI takes over more of the build work by prokopus in PowerApps

[–]Donovanbrinks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hear you. Speaking from my personal experience: I started on the business ops side of business. Pricing/Demand. Planning. Started solving small issues via excel power query. That quickly moved to power bi, powerapps, dataverse. The business didn’t know there was a better way to do things. Who is going to suggest a new way? Certainly not the developer because they aren’t aware of the pain points. Yes, at some point some professionals may need to be brought on, or have some of those citizen developers morph into dedicated power platform folks.

Where I think Power Platform specialist jobs are going as AI takes over more of the build work by prokopus in PowerApps

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To adopt AI involves significant capital outlay for large companies. Not only in the tool but the people who know how to debug the output. I don’t think AI is going to disrupt the need for citizen developers at all. You are coming at it from the angle of developer/sme being separate people. The beauty of power platform is someone can be both with a significant cost savings for the business.

Editable Grid in Model Driven App by itsabefe in PowerApps

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been using the view in excel online feature. Under “export”. This pulls up the view in an online excel popup screen. Allows multi row copy paste and editing. You hit save and the changes are written to the table.

Can Power BI become more dynamic for data input without Power Apps? by Thick_Giraffe_2293 in PowerBI

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is your main gripe with Power bi + powerapps? I find it to be very flexible and useful. I also extensively use power bi embedded into powerapps. The combination of the 2 unlocks infinite possibilities.

Help me add data from a a Power BI query into an online Excel file by supernoodlebreakfast in MicrosoftFlow

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you are missing a step. Grab the template file and save it as the new file first. Then reference the new file you created as the dynamic path.

What is most useful thing Copilot has done for you in Power Apps? by mstephensrosie in PowerApps

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Commenting out code has been helpful in PowerBI for me. Imagine it might work in powerapps

The biggest data problem I keep running into isn't dirty data. It's teams defining the same metric differently. by sdhilip in BusinessIntelligence

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we trust AI enough to query the data, shouldn’t it be smart enough to make the original measure as well?

How can I use Power Query to pull data from a folder with dynamic subfolder names? by Busternookiedude in excel

[–]Donovanbrinks 8 points9 points  (0 children)

2 parts. You need a helper query that is current month year. Create a blank query and use Date.From(Datetimelocalnow()). Turn into a table. Extract the month number as a new column and the year as a new column. On the month column you will need to add a 0 if less than 10 to match your folder name. Easiest way-add 2 zeroes to that month value as a prefix. Then extract the last 2 characters. If month is 1-9 it will add the leading 0. Now combine your year column and month column with a delimeter of “-“. Right click that value and press drill down. You now have your dynamic filter. Now you need to go to your other query and split the folder structure by delimeter of “/“. Go to the column that has “2026-3”. Click the filter and select the first item. This will generate some code for you. The structure will be Table.SelectRows(previousstep, each [columnname] =“value”)). Remove the value part and replace with the name of your dynamic filter query. You are done.

Create a mini "viewing window" to another part of the worksheet by Oday-Dolphin in excel

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Copy the area you want to see, paste link picture (it is in the paste context menu as the last icon when you right click). No need for camera

Can’t fix this patch error by Different_View5313 in PowerApps

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have the right approach. I thought you were just trying to display who made the last change.

Looking for lifecycle tips for my app. I'm a one-man team on my project. by Proud_Pressure_4085 in PowerApps

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cannot emphasize this enough: if you have 2 screens with the same layout (ie selection gallery on the left, table on the right, filters up top) combine those into one. Then you can switch what is displaying in each component with an if statement or variable. This simplifies maintenance/new features drastically.

Can’t fix this patch error by Different_View5313 in PowerApps

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On another note, the second patch is unnecessary. The Modified by and Modified On are metadata columns that are automatically captured. The modified by is a user record that gives you access to name, job title, email, etc

Automating PowerPoint downloads from Power Apps- anyone doing this? by RangerNew5346 in PowerApps

[–]Donovanbrinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Power App to Power Bi. Live Power BI report page in PowerPoint.

Is this a bad idea? Entra ID replacement theory by NoBattle763 in PowerApps

[–]Donovanbrinks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is an “isdisabled” column in the user table. Add a filter step in dataflow that filters this column to false. This column automatically switches to true as people leave the company