This month seems to be all about data integration/data migration for me, so, even though I’m still using good old SSIS in many cases, I wanted to look at the Dataflows a little closer. After all, they don’t require any additional deployment/licensing – we just need to go to the maker portal and start building… Read More »
Integrating external data with model-driven applications in the Microsoft Dataverse can be a challenging task for a number of reasons: Data volumes Storage costs API throttling and entitlement limits Technology limitations Lack of experience with the tools/technologies Vague requirements where a little change can affect the whole approach to the integration In this post,… Read More »
As you could see in the first post of these series, virtual entities are still alive, Microsoft itself is relying on them for integrations, and we can also do some interesting things with them. In the second post, I walked you through the process of setting up a virtual entity and creating a custom provider.… Read More »
In the previous post, I blogged about how useful virtual entities can be when integrating external data with Dataverse, and how we can take that integration even further by adding CRUD support through an embedded canvas app. But there was a teaser video and no technical details, so, in this post, I’ll talk about setting… Read More »
If you have not heard of the virtual entities for a while, it’s understandable. Sometimes, it seems there were no new developments on that front for a while now. And, yet, it might not be quite fair, so, it seems, I’m going to write a few posts on this topic (not that I like writing… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »