I’ve long being using Update action of the Dataverse connector to do “upserts”, and it just turned out there are, now (have been for a while?), two separate actions: Update a rowUpsert a row Behind the scenes “Upsert a row” is the old good “UpdateRecord” action. And “Update a row” is a new “UpdateOnlyRecord” action.… Read More »
I think whoever came up with the term “prompt engineering” may have misunderstood what “engineering” is. Alternatively, they might have honestly hoped the art of composing those AI prompts would turn into the actual engineering; but, I think, so far it has not happened, and it’s probably unlikely to happen. Just look at how “engineering” is… Read More »
I know the title of this post may sound like what a conspiracy theorist would have said. However, even if we are being driven to extinction through the use of AI, I don’t think it’s being done intentionally. That makes it anything but conspiracy. The world around us is largely ignorant of our desire for… Read More »
It always catches me by surprise when I spend a few hours trying to figure something out, and then it turns out to be a known issue. Except that it’s not that well known, perhaps. How would you call it, by the way? According to the Copilot, it’s called a “paradox”: Either way, in case… Read More »
A few years ago (was it really “a few” or just 1 or 2? It does not count as “a few”, right?), when I first saw how AI tools were able to generate code, to produce very reasonable answers, and to manifest other signs of “intelligence”, my first reaction was “oh, crap, the end is… Read More »
I was trying to test some security settings the other day and ran into the message below while trying to open a model-driven app using the usual …/main.aspx?appid=… url: This is not an error message I would have seen before, so I had to retry different security roles etc, all to no avail. It was… Read More »
Have you ever thought of creating a custom function in liquid to reuse it in multiple places? Technically you can’t, not a custom function. However, you can create web templates as components, and that allows us to use such templates almost in the same way we’d be using functions. For example, you could easily re-use tag… Read More »
Let’s say you are trying to use Power Pages web api to set a lookup column to null. You might want to ask copilot, but, depending on which one you ask (maybe none of them?), it might not know, not yet at least: Well, normally, you’d be using this syntax to prepare your data object… Read More »
As usual with such posts, there is the same story: there was a time our Power Pages flows were working fine, until they were not, since we started to get an error, and, to be more specific, here is the error: Request to Azure Resource Manager failed with error: ‘{“error”:{“code”:”InvokerConnectionOverrideFailed”,”message”:”Could not find any valid connection… Read More »
Every now and then I seem to be going over a bit of an identity crisis, so I have to remind myself what is it I do best and how is it different from what some may think I am supposed to do. So let’s see if this makes sense… but let’s start from waaay… Read More »