I have a strange attitude towards managed solutions. In general, I don’t always see great benefits in using them. On the other hand, this is what Microsoft recommends for production environments, so should I even be bringing this up? This is why I probably don’t mind it either way now (managed or unmanaged); although, if… Read More »
While switching between Visual Studio, where I was adding yet another plugin, and Microsoft Flow designer, where I had to tweak a flow earlier this week, I found myself going over another episode of self-assessment which, essentially, was all about trying to answer this question: “why am I using all those different technologies on… Read More »
I wanted to see how a custom PCF control would work in a canvas app, and, as it turned out, it just works if you make sure this experimental feature has been enabled in the environment: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-experimental-release-of-the-powerapps-component-framework-for-canvas-apps/ You also need to enable components for the app: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/component-framework/component-framework-for-canvas-apps So, since I tried it for the Validated… Read More »
Having deployed my Flow in the Test environment earlier today, I quickly realized it was not working. Turned out Flow designer was complaining about the connections in the Flow with the following error: Some of the connections are not authorized yet. If you just created a workflow from a template, please add the authorized connections… Read More »
Microsoft is introducing daily API call limits in the October licensing: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/power-platform/admin/api-request-limits-allocations This will affect all user accounts, all types of licenses, all types of applications/flows. Even non-interactive/application/admin user accounts will be affected. This may give you a bit of a panic attack when you are reading it the first time, but there are a… Read More »
Microsoft has just published more details on the upcoming licensing changes – don’t miss this update: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/updates-to-microsoft-365-dynamics-365-powerapps-and-microsoft-flow-licensing I know there are different ways to look at it – some of us are working more on the model-driven applications side, yet others are using CanvasApps and/or Flows. What’s coming might affect us differently. However, looking at… Read More »
In the last several weeks, I wrote a few blog posts on the devops topic. However, I also meant to conclude those series with a dedicated Q & A post, so here it goes… 1. Why did I use PowerApps build tools? Quite frankly, it was, mostly, out of curiosity. There are other community… Read More »
Have you tried creating a team lately? If not, give it a try, and you may see a couple of team types that were not there before and that might actually get your AD admins excited: Now imagine that there is a group in AAD which you want to use to set up a… Read More »
It seems in the effort to promote PowerApps, Microsoft has created the situation where there had to be a way to take this fast spreading powerapps movement under control – otherwise, everyone with the proper license can create environments, so, if there are 100 licensed users, we may end up with 100 trial environment… Read More »
It’s been a little while since I noticed that my treeview checkbox control stopped working, so I was eager to see what’s going on. Finally, got to look into it today, and it turned out there is a settings in the control manifest file that I overlooked before. Normally, when creating a web resource,… Read More »