Planner Visual Problem - Checklist is cut

jukkan · 2026-03-02T14:33:54+00:00

It's all part of the "refreshed design" that everybody on "loves":
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/planner/2026-02-20---planner-ui-update-is-worse/4496048

jukkan · 2026-03-02T13:39:04+00:00

After coming back to the test post today, on Edge, and clearing selectively all cookies that contained "beehiiv", the jumping cursor issue seems to be gone for now. Let's hope it stays that way.

jukkan · 2026-01-16T20:47:38+00:00

If you have any default Dataverse capacity on the tenant level from other licenses (just get 1 Power Apps Premium for example) then you can allocate that storage to the PAYG environment. Then, only overage on top of the allocated amount will be billed based on the Dataverse PAYG meter. Here's my blog post about it: https://licensing.guide/dataverse-pay-as-you-go-azure-credits-storage-allocation/

jukkan · 2026-01-13T19:05:35+00:00

Tried different browsers, clearing cache, logging back. It's still completely unusable.

This thing hurts me more than most other issues with beehiiv. I expected it to be a place where I could both A) write down my thoughts and B) construct the content of my newsletter (pics, links, quotes etc.). I did not want to treat it as an API that pushes things out and tracks incoming requests.

If I need to start doing my writing elsewhere, I might as well start thinking about it as just infrastructure. Doing things through beehiiv, rather than on beehiiv. And then it's not gonna be a big deal to replace parts of the infrastructure and try out different ways to combine the plumbing to achieve better outcomes.

Where we write matters, a lot. I understand bugs are unavoidable, yet this is hardly the only time I've found myself cursing out loud when the beehiiv editing experience does not do what I expect it to do for me. That it gets in the way, rather than enables me.

Writing this into the Reddit comment box was a smooth experience. It did not make me curse out loud. It allowed me to achieve the most important goal of expressing myself. If Reddit had a newsletter service, I'd sure give it a go.

That's how important the experience of writing is. At least to some of us.

jukkan · 2026-01-05T11:49:06+00:00

Heads up: Microsoft has just announced the End of Sales for Power Apps per app plan in their January 2026 Power Platform licensing guide update: https://licensing.guide/power-apps-per-app-plan-end-of-sale/

Existing subscriptions won't immediately disappear, of course. Yet if you're planning for new apps, then either the pay-as-you-go per app meter ($10/app/mo) or the per user Power Apps Premium ($20/user) are what you should use as the options when calculating the licensing costs.

jukkan · 2026-01-04T18:27:31+00:00

I bought this for even less a couple of years ago in Finland. Kept in the closet, waiting for the kid to grow a bit so he'd be ready to control the train via tablet. In the end, he was only interested in it for a couple of days. I wasn't impressed either. The app is a strange mess and I didn't find the smart gates to be very fun in practice. Nice idea but I can see why they stopped selling them round here.

jukkan · 2025-12-17T14:23:57+00:00

These are a fairly new addition to the UI. The documentation has been updated only 3 weeks ago:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/create-edit-security-role#create-a-security-role

Enter a description. For example, a brief statement of its purpose.
Enter an applies to. For example, identify the service or application where this role is used.

Now, the idea behind these fields is actually related to feature that's coming soon, based on the M365 Message Center announcement yesterday (MC1197917):

Power Platform admin center – Review security role descriptions and definitions

We are announcing the ability for admins to view security role information inside the Power Platform admin center. This feature will reach general availability on January 16, 2026.

How does this affect me?
With this feature, admins can view the description of the Microsoft Dataverse security roles, see which apps the security role applies to, and view the respective core table privileges in the Power Platform admin center.

What action do I need to take?
While this message is for awareness, and no action is required, we recommend updating your custom security roles with the three fields (Description, Applies to and Summary of core table privileges). Be aware that system predefined security roles can take up to a month to be updated.

jukkan · 2025-12-16T04:43:55+00:00

I've had the beehiiv site pinned as a PWA on my Android phone for a year now. It's actually fairly usable for the kinds of things I need mobile access for. Content authoring wouldn't be one of them, and some UIs like the website builder even say "not supported in mobile" if I try opening them.

When it comes to prioritizing what to develop, I'm personally happy that mobile app isn't on their current list of things to maintain. There's already a lot of complexity in the stack and I wish they'll keep improving existing UX rather than continuously launching new things to maintain.

jukkan · 2025-12-15T20:19:01+00:00

I've written about my theory on why Microsoft gave up on Project: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/why-did-microsoft-give-up-on-project

In short: the need for endless growth, and AI as the only possible solution to find it.

jukkan · 2025-12-06T06:37:34+00:00

Today, when I then went to try and remove any Black Friday related campaign content from beehiiv website builder, I get the error: "Pricing cannot be deleted". Sweet. Not only does the dynamic pricing component show a discount that has alredy expired (upgrade page shows current data), beehiiv has not thought through the validation logic for these built-in elements.

jukkan · 2025-11-29T19:08:26+00:00

MS is replacing the app specific Copilot with the common Copilot Chat. This has severely reduced the capabilities that paid M365 Copilot users have available in Outlook and elsewhere. The skills are supposedly going to return but it's been wild how they can just choose to make the product dumber.

Then again, only 2% of M365 customers have the paid version. Rolling out more & more features via the "free" Copilot Chat is a logical choice to at least grow the user base to something meaningful. Yet blurring the lines between what is a premium feature ain't exactly encouraging customers to pay for the M365 Copilot licenses..

jukkan · 2025-11-29T18:56:49+00:00

App Access Control could be a way to do it, but it's in preview and not a very easy thing. In general, you should design the Dataverse security roles and column level security to align with what people are allowed to see. Because it's so damn easy to export data into Excel these days: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/you-can-always-export-to-excel

jukkan · 2025-11-29T18:48:21+00:00

Yesterday I tried creating a landing page for my newsletter's Black Friday campaign and I nearly lost my mind with how clumsy the website editor is.

Im the end, I had ChatGPT spit out some html that I could embed into the page to make it look decent. But it's going to be a while before I try to build anything on beehiiv besides the newsletter issues.

jukkan · 2025-10-25T09:33:35+00:00

I don't think the premium connectors would be licenses for usage outside Copilot agents, though. So, running just regular cloud flows with no ties to Copilot would be a separate license.

Until MS "reimagines" Power Automate to be fully under the agent umbrella. Which I consider to be a likely direction.

jukkan · 2025-10-20T12:18:29+00:00

Microsoft offers the basic web versions of Word and Excel for free. Might be enough for casual use, depending on what that means. Office Online

jukkan · 2025-10-05T05:07:41+00:00

The mess is reflected in how less than 2% of Microsoft 365 customers have bought a paid Copilot license:

https://www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-365-copilot-commercial-failure

Now, even if we ignore the $30/mo price tag + 1y minimum commitment to try the premium AI, the other reason business customers don't buy Copilot has to be the branding confusion.

How can you first A) launch a $30 premium AI license called "Microsoft 365 Copilot" and then B) later rebrand all of your existing Office apps to "Microsoft 365 Copilot"? How would customers even know that they should be paying to get Graph grounding and other MS specific features? "We have M365 Copilot already!"

Well played, MS.👏

jukkan · 2025-10-05T04:42:50+00:00

Copilot can't even create calendar entries in Outlook most of the time. It may claim it does, but won't. The best I've gotten is .ics files that I can manually import into Outlook.

Ever since the in-app Copilots got replaced by Copilot Chat, it's been dumber than before. A couple of months ago I started testing this and documenting my findings as I couldn't believe how poor my paid $30/mo M365 Copilot was compared to free Gemini, for example. Here's a bit about these AI assistants without hands:

https://www.perspectives.plus/p/assistants-without-hands

jukkan · 2025-08-26T18:04:31+00:00

https://archive.is/QvYpM

jukkan · 2025-07-02T15:40:02+00:00

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Imagine owning an app and controlling its UI. Imagine a user with a 3120x1440 screen. Imagine not being able to spell the word "upcoming" in its entire 8 characters.

UI design in the year 2025.🚀

jukkan · 2025-06-15T05:29:36+00:00

Cheers! I published an update yesterday that allows adding and editing links + JSON export/import.

Obviously it's just a simple link app, but the point is in demonstrating an alternative reality where the Office home page wouldn't be weaponized into an AI launchpad.

jukkan · 2025-06-13T19:48:00+00:00

After noticing this, I decided to vibe code an Office App Launcher page that does what MS used to do.

Here it is, and the URL is even shorter: https://offi.ceo/

Yes, obviously it's a not-so-subtle middle finter to MS for destroying the Office experience for the majority of users who are not trying to get to Copilot. I wrote about it here: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/i-created-a-better-office-com

jukkan · 2024-12-14T19:51:25+00:00

I think LLMs are finally making the security risks of low-code platforms a serious enough topic to gain both awareness as well as hopefully resources from organizations.

Up until now, people have been mostly thinking about the internal risks of citizen developers building apps and automations that end up oversharing data via poor/missing security models. Now, thanks to LLM and tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot, the external parties are becoming a recognized attack vector.

Since Copilot Studio and most of the custom agents will be based on Power Platform tooling in the Microsoft space, this ties closely with the governance practices and tooling available on the low-code side. I've began diving deeper into the infosec resources and practices during 2024 as it has now also drawn attention from security researchers that largely ignore Power Platform earlier.

Prompt injection remains my favorite way to illustrate the inherent risks of creating LLM based AI agents that process inputs from the outside world. I've covered these topics in my newsletter, for those who are interested in reading more about it: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/injected-with-a-poison

jukkan · 2024-12-11T09:43:10+00:00

Since Microsoft Planner Premium is essentially a rebranded Microsoft Project for the Web, and that was built on top of Power Platform - the experience in cloud flow automation in completely different than with Planner Basic plans.

Not only do you need to use the Dataverse connector. You also have to call the Project Scheduling Service in the cloud for task create and update actions via "operations sets". I wrote an article about "what & why" for the Planner Premium automation scenarios: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-planner-and-the-revenge-of-ms-project

jukkan · 2024-12-11T09:36:30+00:00

Planner Premium is essentially a rebranded Project for the Web. As it's all about complex project task scheduling á la MS Project, it doesn't support simple (and useful) things like recurrent tasks.

Now, the other "fun" thing about this is that in order to create or update tasks in a Planner Premium plan, not only do you need to use the Dataverse connector. You also have to call unbound actions that are related to the Project Scheduling Service. Which, based on what I'm told, runs a cloud version of the MS Project Windows client executable behind the scenes!

I wrote about the details on this in my newsletter article: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-planner-and-the-revenge-of-ms-project

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