Have you heard of the PowerStorms? As Microsoft keeps changing application development climate to the better, some fascinating things start happening around the Globe. Four of us happened to find ourselves right in the center of one of those on July 16 – that’s when the first ever PowerStorm session happened! There were four of… Read More »
It seems to be very common when there is a project which is trying to implement SCRUM, and which can never really do it because of the inherent problem which occurs when there is a dedicated QA team. SCRUM assumes QA happens within the sprint, but, when scrum development team is different from the QA… Read More »
So, CDS is DataFlex now. Actually, it’s important to call it Microsoft Dataflex since there is a separate non-Microsoft product called DataFlex. It’s the second rebranding of what we used to know as XRM, but it may be the one that will stick for a little longer (I know what you are thinking… but we… Read More »
We can use three different functions to save a form: formContext.data.entity.save formContext.data.save formContext.data.refresh(true…) Off the top of your head, do you know which one will result in the “onSave” form event and when? Those details might not be quite obvious when looking at the documentation for each of the functions separately, but there is… Read More »
You may have heard that we can now use Monitor with model-driven applications. It can provide some very useful context about the client-side behavior of your apps, but there is one option which may be particularly useful when troubleshooting end-user issues. It seems this process is supposed to be done through the “Invite” button below:… Read More »
Wow, we’ve been asking about it for a (long) while: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-column-comparison-through-fetchxml-sdk-and-odata/ Do you want to do column comparison with Fetch? You can do it now – it’s only supported for a few conditions so far: Equal NotEqual GreaterThan GreaterEqual LessThan LessEqual And it’s not, yet, supported in the UI query building tools (Advanced Find).… Read More »
I was looking at this post by CRM Ninja, and it hit me that, even though that post had a different purpose, it had an interesting workaround for the “one relationship only” problem which happens when trying to add the same relationship more than once to the query. For example, on the screenshot below, I… Read More »
The Canvas App Code Reuse tool has just been listed, so it should be much easier to install it now: Just a quick summary: You can use this tool to do implement repeatable code in your canvas apps Essentially, you’ll do a bit of mark up to identify places in your canvas app where… Read More »
There was a quick discussion on linkedin yesterday where the post by Jerry Weinstock stating that change tracking must be enabled for the Flows to work was mentioned: https://www.crminnovation.com/blog/microsoft-flow-crm-change-tracking-option/ Given that I did not do anything with the Flows 3-4 years ago, and I never had to worry about change tracking recently, I was a… Read More »
I was playing with the PowerAutomate approvals tonight, and, since I have not used them at all before, I am wondering if CDS is an “add on” for the approvals or if CDS is a pre-requisite? See, when looking at the link above, it seems I don’t need CDS to work with the approvals: However,… Read More »