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 »
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 »
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 »
You have probably heard that Entities are Tables now? If not, have a look here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/powerapps/maker/common-data-service/data-platform-intro#terminology-updates Well, am I thrilled about it? Am I concerned about it? Quite frankly, we should all get used, by now, to all those changes in the product names and/or in the terminology around Microsoft products. Sometimes, those changes are… Read More »
Right on the heels of my previous post where I was talking about delegation in Canvas Apps, here is another one on the same topic. We can’t help but break delegation when filtering polymorphic lookups, right? Since, of course, “AsType” cannot be delegated: Well, if you are up to writing a little plugin, it’s, actually,… Read More »