Have you ever noticed a table in your solution that you had never added there intentionally? It is kind of a stowaway table – you did not want it there, you did not authorize it to be there, you did not even notice it there until, of course, it was all in production… and, yet,… Read More »
Have you ever noticed the following paragraph in the Canvas Apps coding guidelines? Periodically republishing your apps The PowerApps product team is continually optimizing the Power platform. Sometimes, for backwards compatibility, these optimizations will apply only to apps that are published by using a certain version or later. Therefore, we recommend that you periodically republish… Read More »
So, we all know how managed solutions vs unmanaged solutions discussions used to be raging a few years ago. Then Microsoft stepped in to make it clear that managed solutions are recommended for production environments and unmanaged ones are only supposed to be used in development. This is where things currently stand, and this is… Read More »
Just learned the other day that where Power Automate actions can be showing “display” names in various dropdowns, it might still be some sort of ID/Guid that we should be using when trying a custom value there. For example, in the flow below, when using a “custom value”, I have to use a GUID to… Read More »
When handling errors in the Flows, we can add parallel branches so one of those would run on success, the other one would run on error. However, in the example below, there is a Flow with two parallel branches configured that way, and, even though “On Error” branch is there, the Flow would only execute… Read More »
It’s been a while since “treeview” experience had been added in the preview portal: https://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics/have-you-visited-preview-version-of-the-maker-portal-lately-there-is-solution-treeview-there/ Now we can also see “hidden” elements in the form designer! Classic designer had some nice stuff, after all, and now those features are making their way back into the new designer. There is “created by” on the form below,… Read More »
And I do mean barely. As in, I had to get 700 out of 1000 to pass, and I think I got 738. Under the normal circumstances, I probably wouldn’t even try taking that exam, but there was a reason I wanted to do it, and quickly, so there we go… a Power Platform consultant… Read More »
I was looking at the Omnichannel lately, and , then, I realized something that might be worth sharing. You know how we would often create a configuration entity in our model-driven apps? Omnichannel is doing just that, but it’s taking it one step further. It provides multiple forms for the configuration entity so that each… Read More »
It’s been a few days since my colleague had run into the error below with the Power Apps Portals: From the stacktrace, we can probably guess that the problem is related to the permissions somehow: Adxstudio.Xrm.Cms.Security.WebsiteAccessPermissionProvider.TryAssertRightProperty And, yes, this issues started to happen once an Administrator web role had been deleted. That did not happen… Read More »
When configuring a data source in the plugin registration tool, there is this note which implies that we should be able to supply configuration settings to the data provider plug-ins: There are a few more details in the docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/data-platform/create-edit-virtual-entities Which is encouraging, but it’s still not clear how do we read those configuration settings… Read More »