Author: Laura GB

Over 20 year experience at being passionate about training, solving problems and loving a new challenge especially in the Microsoft's Power Platform suite.

3rd October 2024

Power Automate – Save a File to OneLake Lakehouse

Currently there is no Microsoft Fabric connector in Power Automate. When we want Power Automate to save a file to OneLake Lakehouse, we need to use a workaround. This post walks through the demo I did for the Microsoft Fabric European Conference 2024.

Microsoft Fabric/Power Automate Comments: 0

23rd September 2024

Inherited Value in a Parent Child Pattern

There are times it is useful to calculate an inherited value from parent item to child. The target date of a feature to be passed down to the child user story and then onto the child tasks.

DevOps/Power BI Comments: 0

2nd September 2024

DevOps Parent Child Hierarchy in Power BI

Azure DevOps is built around the pattern than items have child items and so a backlog view will show the items in a hierarchy. When the work items some into Power BI that is not shown. So this gives me the chance to use one of my favourite resources, DAX Patterns and their Parent-Child pattern.

DevOps/Power BI

27th August 2024

DevOps Data into Power BI

Azure DevOps is full of data that management want to to report on. Adding a Power BI report is an obvious way to do this. This post is my take on how I would build the reports.

DevOps/Power BI

20th August 2024

Editing Azure DevOps items in Excel

One of the easiest ways to edit a project in Azure DevOps is to connect Excel to the project. This post walks you through connecting to a project and updating the DevOps items in Excel.

DevOps/Excel

19th August 2024

DevOps updates on behalf of another with Power Automate

I had a need to use automation to do DevOps updates on behalf of another person so when the DevOps adoption metrics were done we the stats were slightly more accurate.

DevOps/Power Automate