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Power Platform Communities: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate & Power Virtual Agents
Updates:
New Forum! We would like to Welcome the Process Advisor forum board to the Power Automate & Family.
What is Process Advisor?
Process advisor records and analyzes your manual business tasks. It discovers inefficiencies and shows optimization and automation opportunities. For example: in a healthcare facility, you could use the process advisor to record patient check-in procedures. Process advisor automatically produces a process map that visualizes the check-in process. You can see which activities take the longest, how many variations of the check-in process there are, and what variations and actions take the most time. Using this information and the powerful features in the process advisor, you can drive improvements to make a difference for the business. Check out the full post in your community News & Announcements: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents
Time Zone:
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We encourage community users to ensure that the time zone for your community profile is correct.
Select the 'Preference' tab, and then 'Preference Options'.
Choose your time zone and select 'Save'.
New look in Community Private Messages with threaded messaging
The inbox is now presented in a threaded view and a streamlined experience:
Toolbar Update:
The Insert Code Sample button can now be seen in the top row of the toolbar. Thank you to the Super Users for this request!
User Groups:
Have you checked out New Microsoft User Groups Experience?
We are super thrilled to announce that Dynamics 365 and Power Platform communities supporting user groups. If you are a leader please check out the links below and request the creation of your group in this new experience. If you are looking to join, give a look to see if your user group has been requested if you are already a member of one. We hope to see many existing user groups being to join this new experience over the next few weeks.
What is a public preview? It is a preview of the experience open to all to test functionality and collect feedback until general availability – Summer 2021.
How to Access User Groups
From Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, or Power Virtual Agents communities, you will click the 'Community' dropdown in the top-level navigation and select 'User groups':
From the Dynamics 365 community you will choose 'User Groups' from the header at the top of the page:
Discover User Groups and User Group Events
The user group landing page is called the 'Discover' page and will provide recommended user groups and events.
If you are looking for a user group, you can either enter a new location in the location field, or select 'See all' for a full listing of user groups, and you will be taken to the 'Group search' page, see below.
While still on the 'Discover' page, you can sign up for a user group event. You can enter a new location in the location field, select a date or a format (online or in-person) that fits what you are looking for.
You can also select 'See all' under the results rendered and you will be taken to the Events Search page, see below.
If you know that you are looking for, a 'Networking' or 'Learning' event, you can scroll to the bottom of the 'Discover' page, and select the one you are looking for. You will be taken to the event search page, already filtered by the type of event chosen.
Check out more about User Groups: User Group Member Page, Inviting Community Members to a User Group, User Group Events Page, Your Groups PageUser, Group Events, Event Info Page, Search events, Your events in your community.
To get an overview of our community user group experience, check out our support article that is available in each community:
Check out our Top Super Users & Top Users reaching new levels
These Top Users are posting, answering questions, kudos, and providing top solutions in their communities.
Top May 2021 Users Top May 2021 Super Users
Community | Username | Rank | Community | Username | Rank |
Power BI | Jiwhan_Kim | Community Champion | Power BI | amitchandak | Super User IV |
Power BI | selimovd | Community Champion | Power BI | Fowmy | Super User IV |
Power BI | HashamNiaz | Solution Supplier | Power BI | Greg_Deckler | Super User IV |
Power Apps | CNT | Resident Rockstar | Power Apps | RandyHayes | Super User III |
Power Apps |
Zaphod88 | Responsive Resident | Power Apps | WarrenBelz | Super User III |
Power Apps | C-Papa | Responsive Resident | Power Apps | PStork1 | Dual Super User III |
Power Automate | Damobird365 |
Community Champion | Power Automate | Pstork1 | Dual Super User III |
Power Automate | jinivthakka |
Resident Rockstar | Power Automate | PrasadAthaly |
Super User |
Power Automate | NiloferA |
Resolver IV | Power Automate | Expiscornovus |
Super User III |
Power Virtual Agents | GRoman |
Regular Visitor | Power Virtual Agents | jCook |
Super User III |
Power Virtual Agents | prufach |
Frequent Visitor | Power Virtual Agents | renatoromao |
Super User |
Power Virtual Agents | neeraja |
Frequent Visitor |
Top June 2021 Users Top June 2021 Super Users
Community | Username | Rank | Community | Username | Rank |
Power BI | Jiwhan_Kim | Community Champion | Power BI | amitchandak | Super User IV |
Power BI | selimovd | Community Champion | Power BI | Fowmy | Super User IV |
Power BI | AlexisOlson |
Resident Rockstar | Power BI | parry2k | Super User III |
Power Apps | CNT | Resident Rockstar | Power Apps | RandyHayes | Super User III |
Power Apps |
zmansuri | Memorable Member |
Power Apps |
WarrenBelz | Super User III |
Power Apps | RoryBI | Resident Rockstar | Power Apps | Pstork1 | Dual Super User III |
Power Automate | Damobird365 | Community Champion | Power Automate | Pstork1 | Dual Super User III |
Power Automate | yoshihirok | Memorable Member | Power Automate | Expiscornovus |
Super User III |
Power Automate | jinivthakkar | Resident Rockstar | Power Automate | ScottShearer |
Super User III |
Power Virtual Agents | GRoman |
Regular Visitor | Power Virtual Agents | jCook |
Super User III |
Power Virtual Agents | prufach |
Frequent Visitor | Power Virtual Agents | renatoromao | Super User |
Power Virtual Agents | neeraja |
Frequent Visitor |
News & Announcements Board:
Make sure you are always up to date with the latest community happenings, in the News & Announcements board in each community: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate & Power Virtual Agents.
You can also subscribe to the board so you do not miss anything subscribing is easy check out our support article, Subscriptions & Notifications in Using the Community! Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate & Power Virtual Agents
Community Blogs
Each month our very own community blog authors publish some fantastic content to our community blog. A huge shoutout to these folks for taking the time to share their knowledge and expertise with the community! Power BI Community Blog, Power Apps Community Blog, Power Automate Community Blog, Power Virtual Agents Community Blog
Thank you to our blog authors for writing some amazing blogs:
Automatically update data according to the date in the file name | Author: Janey Guo by @V-pazhen-msft
Why is it sometimes not possible to select the exact number in the what-if parameter? by @selimovd
Marketing channels performance analysis in Power BI by @Djordje_M
Power BI Challenge 13 Wrap Up: Acing Documentation by @EnterpriseDNA
Hide a Column Header on a Table in Power BI by @PriscillaCamp
Date Transformation Issue in Power BI Service by @Anonymous
Exponential Moving Average in Power Query (EMA) by @Fowmy
External Tools In Power BI Desktop - Tutorials For Beginners by @EnterpriseDNA
Introduction to AI Insights in Power BI Desktop by @PriscillaCamp
Lookup multiple columns in Power Query by @ERD
Several factors influencing Drill through feature in Power BI by @v-yiruan-msft
Fully customizable reports by @TimoRiikonen
Power BI Basics: Types of Tables In Power BI & Their Distinctions by @EnterpriseDNA
Modern Visual Tooltip in Power BI by @Pragati11
[DAX] Visualize last N months picking only one from filter context by @ibarrau
How to extract values of date/currency amount from text strings in Power query by @V-lianl-msft
Tips & Tricks To Build The Best Map Visualizations In Power BI by @EnterpriseDNA
Modern Visual Tooltip in Power BI by @Pragati11
Circular Dependency between Calculated Columns in a Table in DAX by @AntrikshSharma
How to fuzzy match the dirty data and horizontal display the corresponding table by @v-lili6-msft
Creating & Utilizing An Extended Date Table In Power BI – New & Effective Approach by @EnterpriseDNA
USERNAME() v/s USERPRINCIPALNAME() in RLS for Power BI Embedded scenarios - When to use what? by @monaraya
Power BI Dev Camp | Teaches Advanced Data Modeling - May 27th at 11a PDT by @TedPattison
Creating a Visual Calendar in Power BI by @dedelman_clng
Json Transformations by @v-lionel-msft
How To Create Superior Navigation Experience For Power BI Reports by @EnterpriseDNA
Query Folding in PowerBI by @Kumail
POWER BI >> HOW TO FORMAT ALL DAX MEASURE AT ONCE by @Anonymous
Line chart with range of values in Power BI by @v-yiruan-msft
High Quality Power BI Reports Using Custom Visuals by @EnterpriseDNA
Power BI Challenge 13 – Acing Your Documentation by @EnterpriseDNA
Refresh error: The xxxx column does not exist in the rowset by @V-lianl-msft
Split Amount Across Months Using Power Query by @Fowmy
Importance of efficient CRM reporting - Power BI Salesforce Dashboard by @Djordje_M
How to merge different rows with the same attribute into one row by @v-yiruan-msft
Creating Value Dynamic Formatting using Calculation Groups by @pade
Power Apps – One app platform to rule them all by @Bridgeall
Creating Azure Functions, Custom Connectors and using them inside of Power apps by @chass
Power Automate Community Blog:
Back to Basics #1: How to set up a Dynamics 365 / Power platform Trials by @codevenkat
Alterative to Disable Actions in Power Automate by @PrasadAthalye
Power Automate Desktop - How to Read Element HTML by @PrasadAthalye
Power Virtual Agents Community Blog:
How to use mark down to format a table for the bot response-for-the-bot-response/ba-p/1190942 by Expiscornovus
Community Support
As your community management team, we welcome all questions related to your Power Platform Community experience. If you need help with something related to your community profile, please head over to the "Community Support" category where you can submit a support request form and be guided through the steps to accomplish administrative tasks like changing your email address or your username. We are here to assist you with any questions you may have about the Power Platform Communities.
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Thank you @heaher_italent for the shout out, will continue to share my learnings !
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