“Support” for the Unified Interface in the Advanced Chart Editor for the XrmToolBox

  As a lot of people have noticed, chart customizations in the Unified Interface in Model-Driven Power Apps, or Dynamics 365 does not behave the way they used to in the classic interface. This is because the Unified Interface only supports a subset of the chart customization options that were available in the classic interface.  …

Create Record Links From Power BI to Unified Interface and Dynamics 365

A great dashboard in Dynamics 365, or Model-Driven App will not only show you the relevant data and insights, it will also make it easy to get to the relevant records so you can take action. Drill-downs and clicking on records to navigate to them has been the standard user experience in the built-in dashboards …

Use Icons from Power Apps Unified Interface in Power BI

As Power BI is used increasingly within Dynamics 365 or Model-Driven apps, attention to detail in the user experience is increasingly important. Users should be able to seamlessly navigate between the two technologies, and the visual cues should match between them for a coherent user experience. Visual cues for example, can be the icons used …

Compare This Year to Last Year – Unified Interface edition

Some years ago, I wrote a blog post about how to create a chart that compared monthly sales, to the same month in the previous year. The approach required quite a bit of XML editing and the chart was limited to only comparing this and last year. No data from two or three years ago. …