M365 Roadmap Management
Wondering if others have tips & tricks on how they stay up to date with the https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap? I find it tedious to stay on top of all the features being announced, switching launch phases, moving target dates, and so on. I was hoping to use the RSS feed in a PowerBI Dashboard or find a solution in Planner similar to syncing the Admin Centre messages, and after some quick searches online could not find an example of anyone doing something similar. I was hoping any members of this community may be able to shed some light on how they approach the roadmap site and what tools if any they use to manage the constant influx of information? TIA!
Add a copy tab function, but remove all the formulas
Hi, I’m familiar with how to copy a tab and then use "Paste Values" to remove all the formulas. However, would it be possible for you and your team to create a feature or shortcut that automatically copies a tab with values only? It would help streamline the process and save time.Driving User Adoption - User Personas and User Journey Maps
When we say things like "casting a wide net" in the world of User Experience in most cases this isn't a good thing because it means the wider the net we cast the less we understand about the fish we catch. In the case of O365 Groups we have the power to create groups quickly, create focused content, manage permissions, etc., which is really amazing but the ability to do this in some cases gives false promises that we can just "start something" with the hopes of User Adoption and through Rapid-Adaptation maintain or even build User Adoption. While it is true that being able to quickly adapt to "new" User Needs helps to "build" User Adoption, the problem is that the psychological effects of a Negative Experience are hard to repair for "current" users once they have casted a ballot on UX. A good way to go about solving this problem before actually having Negative User Experiences occur is to create Macro User Personas and then couple them with User Journey Maps of the O365 Groups that we are trying to build an experience around. User Personas and Journey Maps have been around forever and are used in the UX community on a daily basis. The really powerful concept here is that we are still able to rapidly adapt experiences around our users faster and better than ever before thanks to Microsoft making infrastructures smarter and faster but with User Personas and User Journey Maps it gives us the ability to better understand the "emotional connections" of our users and what actually makes them tick. As an example, think about knowing the answer to these questions prior to starting any project then couple the idea with constructing an O365 Group. Workshop questions structured to capture UX for a new interface: What is the average age of the people you think would use this online application? Will you be using a mobile device to access this application? What type of online applications do you use? What online applications do you like? Does this online application have a direct competitor? If so, who is it? What brands do you admire? If the interface did one thing that would make you happy, what would it do? What would make you recommend this online application? Workshop questions structured to capture UX out in the wild already: What is the average age of the people you think use this online application? Do you access this online application with a mobile device? If so, does it work? Do you use other online applications? Does this application work better or worse than other online applications you have used? Do you like this application? What brands do you admire? What is something you wish this application did better? What is something this application does that makes you happy? https://1drv.ms/b/s!AhD16xYVMgyoorJhAX_QGxpSpNfEbw I would really like to start indepth conversations on UD/UI and UX topics and how they relate to the Microsoft Experience as a whole. Thanks,
Transitioning to Microsoft Planner and retiring Microsoft Project for the web - Dataverse Data
Hi, I have received some inquiries from my customers who are using Microsoft Project for the Web and integrating it with Dataverse through Power Automate. They are applying updates directly to Dataverse records via automated flows. Could you please clarify whether this transitioning has any impact on how the information is stored or managed in Dataverse? Thank you very much for your support. Best regards, José Arancibia
Visual and dax level optimization that causes report slowdown
Hi, I have this visual as attached, that has lot of visual level filters applied it has a dax measure called data completeness as below Data Completeness = var _total = COUNT('Calendar'[Date])*COUNT(Points[DBName-Point_Id]) var _result = [Count of Exisitng Days]/_total return _result It references a dax called Count of Exisitng Days as below Count of Exisitng Days = Var dates = SUMMARIZE(Data, Data[DBName-Point_Id], Data[Date]) Var Ext_dates = COUNTROWS(dates) return Ext_dates Now, the problem I have here is the performance of this visual is causing report to slow down. Please let me know how to optimize the dax and further steps to increase the performance PFA file here https://1drv.ms/u/c/cfada767f73d87ed/Efl-4uYzkklNjOb1NakC9cEB7B7xXbhHb-w-K3TpvooIjw?e=zpfwXe Thanks in advance! SergeiBaklan
Planner Hyperlinks via Flow's Update Task Details
Greetings all, I have multiple planners that I administer. It is a common desire to have dynamically created hyperlinks added to the planner board tasks that take you to the SharePoint List's line item that was used for creating the task. I have used a power automate flow (solution) for creating said task and hyperlinks from line items. I have used power automate's update task details action to add those dynamic hyperlinks. However, for some unknown reason it also doubles the size of the card with a huge hyperlink to open the task (although the original card hyperlink still works). Why? You can see examples of it in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCtXprXyO40 at the 13:41 mark. The Planning and Executing columns have tasks with these huge unnecessary task opening links added. Why? And how can a person get rid of those since it seems to be a built in function of the flow action OR the Planner to have that? Having all that extra space taken for no reason just limits the number of tasks that can be on view at any time. I have researched and found blurbs about utilizing an Graph API tool but I'm not granted server access to implement such a thing. Is there another way around this that can be done to have said hyperlinks that DON'T create those huge extra links that are totally unnecessary? Thanks for any assistance on the matter, McGeeksCan we get Schedule view back?
When showing off Planner to a group of people today they noticed on an older, different plan the Schedule view, and really liked it. Of course, what I was showing them doesn't have that option anymore. Is it possible to to get this view back or if necessary, a "monthly" option within the "Timeline" view? Thanks
