I got a little stuck the other day trying to upload files from Power Automate to a “file” filed in Dataverse – it turned out all the functionality was there, I was simply looking in the wrong place. CDS (current environment) connector has a couple of special actions to work with the file/image attributes: This… Read More »
There was a little unusual scenario to cover. With user-owned tables in Dataverse (see, I’m practicing different pieces of new terminology in the same sentence ), how do we keep all records under the same team? You might probably question the scenario to start with, and I’d be happy to just say that there is… Read More »
I was toying with the idea of creating a dictionary variable in Power Automate, and, it seems, I got onto something. Unless there is an easier way? Well, just for the sake of experiment, what if we wanted to count the number of accounts per owner in our Dataverse instance and store those numbers in… Read More »
This month seems to be all about data integration/data migration for me, so, even though I’m still using good old SSIS in many cases, I wanted to look at the Dataflows a little closer. After all, they don’t require any additional deployment/licensing – we just need to go to the maker portal and start building… Read More »
Integrating external data with model-driven applications in the Microsoft Dataverse can be a challenging task for a number of reasons: Data volumes Storage costs API throttling and entitlement limits Technology limitations Lack of experience with the tools/technologies Vague requirements where a little change can affect the whole approach to the integration In this post,… Read More »
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 »
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 »