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By Steve Drake, Director, Technology and Christian Waters, Director, Delivery “An API-first approach involves developing APIs that are consistent and reusable. This can be accomplished by using an API description language to establish a contract for how the API is supposed to behave.” swagger.io When we deliver web portals using an API-first approach, it is a simple process to expose these operations to Power Automate. This allows your users to combine your business-specific operations in innovative ways. To do this, […]

TrueNorth IT has achieved Gold partnership with Microsoft in Cloud Platform. This demonstrates industry-leading ability in delivering cloud services for clients. The partnership elevates the company’s capability to deliver cloud applications on Microsoft Azure, including deploying, migrating and maintaining cloud services. TrueNorth qualified for Gold via the Cloud Consumption option, which recognises the Azure spend of the company’s Digital Partners of Record and the qualifications of its staff. In an increasingly cloud-first world, the Gold partnership is an important recognition […]

By Steve Drake, Director, Technology at TrueNorth IT Quite often we need to surface data from another system within Microsoft Dynamics. Sometimes the need is simply to display static read-only data, but we may also on occasion require: Users to be able to interact with this data Lists of data items that can be filtered External data that is aware of and can interact with the form within which it is displayed Filtering of external data using security roles of […]

By Christian Waters, Director, Delivery at TrueNorth IT. From the First Industrial Revolution to the Third, in the history of our building.   The First Industrial Revolution If you have ever visited our office, you have probably had to suffer a minor lecture about the heritage of the Tower Works site and surrounding area. The Holbeck area of Leeds was at the forefront of industrialisation at the end of the 18th century and is one of the few areas where […]

By Christian Waters, Director, Delivery at TrueNorth The silver lining of every disaster and calamity is the infamous “learning opportunity”, a valuable chance to be forewarned and forearmed! In the spirit of our continuing quest for efficient and harmonious delivery of business applications, what has TrueNorth learnt from the lockdown experience and can we apply some of these lessons to our day-to-day operations?   Working from Home It seems to be universally agreed that working from home is here to […]

By Steve Drake, Director, Technology at TrueNorth IT. In the past we have built CRM (Dataverse) portals using Microsoft’s PowerApps Portals. We have even blogged about it. But often you cannot deliver exactly what the user wants with PowerApps Portals. Sometimes we need a more code-focused solution and one that our Dataverse developers will be familiar with.   What do our Dataverse Developers Know? JavaScript, TypeScript, JavaScript and JavaScript … With Dataverse you can customise your forms with JavaScript; you […]

By Christian Waters, Director, Delivery at TrueNorth The legacy web client for Dynamics 365 was deprecated in September 2019, and was replaced by the Dynamics 365 Unified Interface. This brings a consistent design across all devices and all platforms accessing the Dataverse that underpins both Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Here I’d like to share with you a few of the new features that may not be immediately obvious, but which make a real difference to ease of navigation and […]

By Steve Drake, Director, Technology at TrueNorth IT. With the C-thing, more of us are working from home. And, as we get closer to Christmas, the cheer that Christmas tends to fill our office with – Secret Santa, Xmas jumpers, decorations, mince pies – is often absent this year. Well, you can bring some Christmas cheer to your team’s meetings with some technical know-how.   Firstly, Why Not Change your Profile Picture? You can change your profile picture within Teams. […]

By Gareth Davies, Director, Client Engagement at TrueNorth Having ditched your antiquated Excel-based systems, your team are merrily and efficiently flying through their business process on your shiny new Dynamics 365/Power Platform-based system. But there’s one problem: interactions with external stakeholders are still dependent on sending sensitive information backwards and forwards via email. This is inefficient, often involving manual transcription of data, and potentially insecure. What can be done? Many business processes include interactions with external stakeholders: cases are submitted; […]