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Getting address based on latitude and longitude from Bing maps using Power Automate Flow.

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Hello Guys, In our previous  blog   we have seen how to display maps in canvas application. Today we are going to explore more about Bing Maps and Power Automate Flow. Do follow us to know more about Dynamics and Power Platform. Also if you like our blog then please comment and share this blog with your friends. Today we are going to see how we can retrieve address based on latitude and longitude using Bing maps and Microsoft Power Automate Flow. We will be creating a flow which will be triggered on creation of contact entity. Here we go. Visit  https://make.powerapps.com  and select your environment and solution. Now click on new and add a new automated cloud flow and configure it as shown below: Configure first step as shown below: Now add a new step and search Bing Maps, and select Get location by point(preview) and configure it as shown below: Add a new step, search parse JSON and configure it as shown below: You can use below schema: {      "type" :  "object" ,

Displaying Bing Map on Canvas application in Power Apps.

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Hello Guys, In our previous  blog  we have seen how to retrieve Latitude and Longitude using Power Automate Flow. Today we are going to learn how to display Bing maps on canvas application in Power Apps. Do follow us to know more about Dynamics and Power Platform. Also if you like our blog then please comment and share this blog with your friends. In our previous blogs we have displayed Bing Maps on Model Driven App. Consider a scenario where we need to perform the same thing on canvas application then how to achieve this. Bing Maps connector allows us to achieve this functionality in canvas application. Let's see how to do that. Visit  https://make.powerapps.com  and select your current working environment. Once done and select your solution. we will be creating a canvas application and Bing Map Connection from the scratch. First  we require Bing Maps Connector. Click on New -> More -> Connection Reference. Configure it as shown below: Now when you select New Connection, it

Getting latitude and longitude based on address from Bing maps using Power Automate Flow.

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Hello Guys, In our previous  blog  we have seen how to enable Bing Maps in D365 CRM. Today we are going to explore more about Bing Maps and Power Automate Flow. Do follow us to know more about Dynamics and Power Platform. Also if you like our blog then please comment and share this blog with your friends. To work with Bing Maps using Power Automate we require to setup Bing Maps developer account. Click on  Bing Maps Portal . Click on Sign In Button and specify your credential.  Click on "Yes, let's create a new account" and fill the info as shown below and click on create. We will need an API key for our MS flows. Click on My account and choose My Keys. Specify the details and click on create. So now key is created. You can click on show key and copy the key paste it somewhere for future purpose. Now we will be creating two fields on Contact entity where we can display and store latitude and longitude. For time being we have already created this two fields as shown below:

Enable Bing Maps in D365 CE.

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Hello Guys, In our previous  blog  we have seen how to create custom connector for Power Automate Flow. Today we are going to explore about Bing Maps and how to enable this Maps in Dynamics 365 CRM. Do follow us to know more about Dynamics and Power Platform. Also if you like our blog then please comment and share this blog with your friends. While working with D365 CRM, we have seen many features which are disabled by Microsoft and can be enabled by user as per their requirements. One of the important feature is to enable the maps in D365. First of all we will see where we can find this view. We have some OOB Tables like Account, Contact, Lead etc. on which we can see this map feature available.  As you can see in above image we have one contact record which is having address and below that one section is present where we can see the map option which is currently not enabled for the organization. Once you click on Get Direction link you will be redirected to Bing Maps which will optio