Using Full Page Apps in Dynamics 365 Finance

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Have you ever wanted to put a website or a model-driven Power App in one of your existing Dynamics 365 Finance workspaces or forms?  You might already know you can create a new workspace with a website, but did you know you can add the website to an existing workspace? Here is an example of the Vendor invoice entry workspace with the Invoice Capture Power App embedded. Prior to using this feature, you need to turn on "Saved views support for workspaces" in feature management. Once this feature is enabled you can follow the following steps to add the Invoice Capture app or any model-driven Power App or website to an existing workspace. Open the vendor invoice entry workspace From Options - choose Personalize this page From personalize menu - select the 3 dots - and then Add an app Once that is selected (the screen goes gray) - click on the section header where you want to add the app (in my example I put it in Links) On the Add an app menu - choose Website Give it a name (my e
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USERELATIONSHIP in DAX

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A common problem many users face it the fact that there are multiple date fields in their tables, and when they want to use a date dimension, Power BI only allows for on active relationship between the two tables.

For example, I have a dimension table from my leasing software that included information on each lease including the commencement date of the lease and the expiration date of the lease.  In Power BI when I use a separate date dimension (which I always recommend for many different reasons), I can only link the dimension table to date table with one active relationship.   See screen shot below.




Since most of my visualizations will be based on the Commencement Date, I will make that the active relationship.  However, I would like to create a visualization showing my leases by expiration date.  In order to do this, I have a couple options.

1.       I could create a second date dimension table in my model.  This is fairly simple.  I would just copy the first dimension and give it a new name (Expiration Date).  I would relate the Lease Details table to the Expiration Date table using the expiration date.  The drawback to this is if you are using date slicers on the report, you would need two different date slicers since they are different tables.  This can also quickly get out of control if there are numerous dates.

2.       I could use the DAX function USERELATIONSHIP.

Userelationship([columnName1],[columnName2])

The function returns no value; the function only enables the indicated relationship for the duration of the calculation.

By using this function I can create a new measure to count my leases based on their expiration date.

Expiring Leases = CALCULATE(DISTINCTCOUNT('Lease Details'[Lease]),USERELATIONSHIP('Lease Details'[ExpirationDate],'Date'[Date]))

Once this measure is in place, I can create my two different visualization using the same date dimension.





For more information on USERELATIONSHIP go to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/query-bi/dax/userelationship-function-dax


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