There is a bunch of useful admin cmdlets we can use with the PowerPlatform, but, as it turned out, they can be a little tricky. As part of the CI/CD adventure, I wanted to start using those admin scripts to create/destroy environments on the fly, so here is what you may want to keep in… Read More »
Now that John and Debbie have there own dev/test instances, and they also have their own development branches in Git (Feature1 for John, Feature2 for Debbie), it’s time for them to start making changes. John was supposed to add a new entity, so let’s just assume he knows how to do that in the… Read More »
In the two of my recent posts, I tried approaching CI/CD problem for Dynamics, but, in the end, I was obviously defeated by the complexity of either of those two approaches. Essentially, they were both artificial since both assumed that we can’t use source control merge. If you are wondering what those two attempts… Read More »
I’ve been definitely struggling to figure out any kind of sane “merge” process for the configuration changes, so I figured I’d just try to approach ALM differently using the old good “master configuration” idea (http://gonzaloruizcrm.blogspot.com/2012/01/setting-up-your-development-environment.html) Here is what I came up with so far: There are two repositories in Git: one for the… Read More »
Team development for Dynamics has always been a little vague topic. To start with, it’s usually recommended to use SolutionPackager – presumably, that helps with the source control since you can unpack solution files, then pack them, then observe how individual components have changed from one commit to another. But what does it really… Read More »
Recently, there was an interesting announcement from the Power Apps Team: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/automate-your-application-lifecycle-management-alm-with-powerapps-build-tools-preview/ Before I continue, I wanted to quickly summarize the list of Azure DevOps tasks available in this release. Here it goes: PowerApps Tools Installer PowerApps Import Solution PowerApps Export Solution PowerApps Unpack Solution PowerApps Pack Solution PowerApps Set Solution Version PowerApps Deploy… Read More »
Every now and then, I see this kind of error message in the UCI: It may seem useful, but, when looking at the log file, all I can say is that, well, something has happened. Since all I can see in the downloaded log file is a bunch of callstack lines similar to the one… Read More »
Did you ever have to tag records? What if we could organize those tags into a hierarchy, and, then, present them as a tree so the user could check off a few tags to identify the record? Maybe it would look somewhat similar to this – at the top, there is a tree version,… Read More »
When creating a custom PCF control for a subgrid, how do you display “add new item”, “quick find”, and other commands/actions/navigation items which you would normally see accompanying the subgrids on the forms? That’s what I was recently asking in the community forums: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Component-Framework/PCF-controls-for-specific-subgrid-columns/m-p/304895#M440 Once again, folks from the PCF team have raised to the… Read More »
This post may have no practical meaning, really. Well, except, maybe, that the next time somebody tells you “Organization Service has been deprecated” you can say confidently that the rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated. I used to think that the Organization Service is going away, it’s getting replaced by Web API,… Read More »