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  • Evolution of an App

    From Paper to Power Platform Introduction In the world of business operations, some of the most critical systems don’t start with a formal design—they begin with a conversation, a sticky note, or a hastily written email. As a consultant working in the Power Platform ecosystem, I’ve seen this story unfold… Read More ⇢

  • 🚀 Tools of the Trade: Level Up for Dynamics 365

    Published – September 5, 2025 Welcome to the first post in my new “Tools of the Trade” series! This series is all about sharing the tools that have made a real difference in my day-to-day work—whether you’re a consultant, a system admin, or just someone navigating the Microsoft ecosystem. These are the… Read More ⇢

  • The One Flow Every Dataverse Consultant Should Know: A Reusable Bulk Updater

    Date: August 29, 2025 TL;DR Build an instant (button) Power Automate flow that: Use this to backfill at scale, safely rerun until the list returns 0 rows, and keep each run lightweight. Why this exists If you work in Dataverse long enough, you’ll be asked to backfill or re‑stamp tens… Read More ⇢

  • Do This Before You Even Think About Starting Your Next Canvas Apps Project

    Published – August 22, 2025 You’re about to make a mistake.Not a catastrophic one—but one that could cost you hours of rework, endless client revisions, and a data model that barely holds together. If you’re gearing up to build a Canvas App for a business scenario, especially under pressure from… Read More ⇢

  • Why I Started Yodercoder.com

    If you’ve worked in the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 world for any length of time, you know one universal truth: there’s always something new to learn — and just as often, something you wish you could remember how you solved six months ago. Over the years, I’ve built,… Read More ⇢

  • Reimagining the Pen Input Control

    Overview Most experienced Canvas App makers will be familiar with the Pen Input control; however, we recently had a client need that required a bit of out-of-the-box thinking that I wanted to share.  For the pen input, the default use case that likely comes to mind to is to capture… Read More ⇢

  • Modern File Storage for the Power Platform

    Getting more out of SharePoint and the Power Platform by using a library with meta data tagging. Overview There are many ways to integrate SharePoint with the Power Platform/Dynamics 365. The most common method I come across in my client work and on the web, involves automatic creation of folders… Read More ⇢

  • Querying Audit History in Power Automate (Before & After Column Values)

    Why This Is Useful If you’ve ever needed to know who changed what and when in Microsoft Dataverse, the audit history is your friend.When auditing is enabled for a table (and optionally for specific columns), Dataverse stores a detailed record of changes — including the old value, the new value,… Read More ⇢

  • Power Automate Retry Logic

    If at first you don’t succeed, Try, Try Again! How to automatically retry any flow that intermittently fails.  I have a client who is heavily using a Word template in flow to generate reports upon completion of a record in their system.  This can mean the same template is requested… Read More ⇢

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