Sometimes, project requirements can take an interesting turn, and we may need to think of unusual solutions. Fortunately, we have powerful options up the sleeve, since, after all, we are not talking about some kind of a csv file here – it’s Microsoft Dataverse! So, when it comes to the activity tables in Power Platform,… Read More »
When setting up profile page for newly registered users yesterday (which I wrote about here: https://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics-crm/power-apps-portals-redirecting-newly-registered-users-to-a-custom-page/), I ran into something that I did not realize first. And, then, while digging around tonight, it all became crystal clear. Yep, header and footers are cached, so some of the Liquid code we may expect to work in… Read More »
When we have a team and a bunch of users added to the team, would you expect every user to have access to whatever another user has access to? Since, after all, they are all team members, so should not they be sharing the data? Basically, what if we have the following set up: Is… Read More »
As everybody else has already noticed, CRUD support has been added to the Virtual Entities: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/data-platform/virtual-entities/sample-ve-provider-crud-operations A while ago, I blogged about how we can use canvas apps with virtual entities, and there was a sample plugin there: https://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics-crm/virtual-entities-revisited-setting-up-a-virtual-entity/ So, I figured, I’d just try updating that plugin to support create/update/delete. Since it is, already,… Read More »
Apparently, model-driven apps may need to be activated now: This is part of the ALM updates released recently: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/key-alm-updates/ Somehow, there seem to be a bit of inconsistency there. For example, as of writing this blog post, when I created an app through the classic designer, for instance, it’s did not show up in the… Read More »
If there is any single feature I’ve been missing ever since new maker portal started to take over from the classic solution designer, it’s the treeview. However, have you visited preview version of the maker portal lately? Some things are definitely brewing there, and one of them is new solution experience which brings back… right,… Read More »
Business process flows can definitely help guide our application users – they always look nice in the demos, and they easily draw positive feedback. But, it seems, when the BPF is designed to cover multiple entities, there are some quirks there. Here is the BPF I wanted to create: There are two entities involved: Main… Read More »
“Common Data Service” connectors don’t have an “Upsert” action: And it would have been a problem for one of the flows I had to implement recently if not for David Yack who pointed out that Update action will do an Upsert. What?? Well, he was absolutely right, here you go: Have fun folks. And thank… Read More »
It’s been a while since I wrote about SSIS – most of what we do these days is happening in the cloud. But, sometimes, we still need to resort to the old good time-proven technologies… such as SSIS. What’s the de-facto standard toolset of any Dynamics/PowerPlatform consultant who need to use SSIS? Well, that’s, of… Read More »
Just a few days ago, when I was writing a post about Power BI Paginated Reports, “Dataverse” connection type was still called “Common Data Service(Preview)” there. As of today, in the updated version of the Power BI Report Builder, it’s called “Dataverse”: There is no reference to the preview anymore, but, apparently, it’s still a… Read More »