It’s a rare situation when 3 different Dataverse developers, all having quite a bit of experience with plugins, start talking about plugins functionality and can’t agree on how it actually works Yet, this is exactly what happened when Daryl LaBar suggested that I should be using shared variables to handle the problem described in the… Read More »
There is a common problem which happens to my plugins over time. As I keep adding more and more code, at some points all those relationships between the plugins are becoming really confusing – there might be an update in one plugin which will kick off another plugin, and that plugins, in term, might lead… Read More »
A few things happened recently which got me thinking about things we usually don’t talk about in the Power Platform world: Steve Mordue mentioned Dunning-Kruger Effect in his recent podcast/blog post: https://stevemordue.com/microsoft-marching-masses-to-peak-of-mt-stupid/ Another fellow MVP, Olena Grischenko, posted this interesting comment on Linkedin: “Doing lots of error handing in Power Automate recently Feels more and… Read More »
What if you wanted to populate model-driven app form controls based on the previous selections made by the same user? To give you a specific example: let’s say there is a location field on the form, and let’s say our user can travel between multiple locations. In both locations, this user is going to work… Read More »
There is a strange action in Power Automate which is really not there to do anything other than to help you organize the Flow a little better, it seems: We can use scopes to put other actions in them, so we can, then collapse and expand those scopes this improving the manageability of the Flow:… Read More »
Every now and then, we need to change Flow action names. This usually happens to me once the Flow has already been somewhat developed and I have a bunch of actions which have very meaningful names: It helps to know that there are 3 list record actions in the Flow above. But it does not… Read More »
Now that we went through the process of creating a Power Automate flow that’s using Word Template action, why don’t we get this integrated into a model-driven application? Let’s first create a very simple invoice form. You should be able to do it easily (or you could use any other entity – I’m just… Read More »
I’ve never been a big fan of Word Template in Dynamics 365 since they have quite a few limitations, and, yet, I had to use them every now and then since they are so easy to develop (till you run into the limitations, of course). Besides, they are not so easy to deploy into different… Read More »
There is another renaming, so just be aware: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/reshape-the-future-of-work-with-microsoft-dataverse-for-teams-now-generally-available/ And I can’t help but notice https://dataverse.org/ Well, I know it’s difficult to come up with good names these days since all of them have already been taken, but, quite frankly, what’s wrong with CDS, or, at least, how come Dataverse sounds better? Either way, it… Read More »
Recently, I happened to look into how google sheets connector works, and, to be honest, I was a little bit disappointed. First, I wanted to blame google. But, it turned out, there is no hiding the fact that’s it’s been provided by Microsoft itself: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/googlesheet/ In general, this connector works. But there is one notable… Read More »