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Expert insights, practical tips, and real-world guidance for Power Automate, PowerApps, Dataverse, and Dynamics 365
Real Production Experience
Supporting Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform for a 3,000-user enterprise service — fault diagnosis, workarounds, defect management and configuration delivery.
Builds, Written Up
Step-by-step write-ups of solutions I've built end to end, including the parts that didn't work first time.
Certification Notes
Worked examples and study notes from AB-410, AB-900 and PL-900 — built rather than memorised.
Featured Insights
Explore our latest Power Platform expertise and real-world solutions
How to Display Record Owners in Power Apps Canvas Gallery (Without Trigger Loops)
Josh
October 29, 2025
I recently worked on a project to create a Canvas App that displays all tasks and projects at an organization in a gallery view. One seemingly simple requirement turned into an interesting learning experience:Â displaying who a record is assigned to. The Challenge: Accessing the Owner Field My first instinct was
Fix Business Process Flows Not Showing: Monitor Tool Guide
Josh
October 18, 2025
I recently encountered a frustrating issue in my Power Platform environments where newly created Business Process Flows (BPFs) refused to appear in my model-driven app. Despite checking all the usual suspects—permissions, app configuration, the accent color bug, activation status, and entity attachments—the BPFs remained stubbornly invisible. After reaching out to
How to Create Rollup and Calculated Columns in Power Platform: A Complete Guide
Josh
September 25, 2025
Introduction: From PL-900 to Real-World Implementation Imagine discovering that your project budget tracking is completely unreliable because team members are entering costs manually into free-text fields. This was exactly the challenge I faced while developing a Model Driven App for project management—and here’s how Power Platform’s rollup and calculated columns
Featured Insights
Explore our latest Power Platform expertise and real-world solutions
How to Display Record Owners in Power Apps Canvas Gallery (Without Trigger Loops)
I recently worked on a project to create a Canvas App that displays all tasks and projects at an organization in a gallery view. One seemingly simple requirement turned into an interesting learning experience:Â displaying who a record is assigned to. The Challenge: Accessing the Owner Field My first instinct was
Fix Business Process Flows Not Showing: Monitor Tool Guide
I recently encountered a frustrating issue in my Power Platform environments where newly created Business Process Flows (BPFs) refused to appear in my model-driven app. Despite checking all the usual suspects—permissions, app configuration, the accent color bug, activation status, and entity attachments—the BPFs remained stubbornly invisible. After reaching out to
How to Create Rollup and Calculated Columns in Power Platform: A Complete Guide
Introduction: From PL-900 to Real-World Implementation Imagine discovering that your project budget tracking is completely unreliable because team members are entering costs manually into free-text fields. This was exactly the challenge I faced while developing a Model Driven App for project management—and here’s how Power Platform’s rollup and calculated columns
What I Do
I'm a Service Delivery Lead for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform, working towards Power Platform functional consultancy. This site is where I build things, break them, and write up what happened.
Fault Investigation
Diagnosing and resolving live Dynamics 365 and Power Platform issues, delivering fixes and workarounds, and logging defects for development.
Configuration Delivery
Taking change requests from the initial business conversation through testing, change control and deployment.
Hands-On Builds
Canvas and model-driven apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power Pages, AI Builder and Copilot Studio agents — built end to end against realistic scenarios in my own environment.
Writing & Speaking
Technical write-ups here, and speaking at the Dynamics 365 & Power Platform UK User Group.
Questions about something I've written, or want to talk Power Platform? I'd be glad to hear from you.