Author Archives: Alex Shlega

Power Platform Quiz #1

Here is a short Power Platform quiz for you. It might be the only one I’ll come up with, or it might turn into a “thing” here – we’ll see. Anyways, in case you wanted to test yourself, there are 10 questions to answer. [HDquiz quiz = “39”]

What is Microsoft Dataverse?

I have been working on the Power Platform course lately, and a lot of “going back to basics” has been happening along the way. One of the topics which seem to be surprisingly difficult to cover is explaining what Microsoft Dataverse is. Here is how Power Platform docs describe Dataverse: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/data-platform/data-platform-intro “Dataverse lets you securely… Read More »

Power Platform training course

re you or your team looking for a guided training on some / all of the topics below? Here is how it works: 1. Power Platform Security We will look at the Dataverse security model and its implications for different Power Platform components. Time-permitting, we will also discuss related aspects of Sharepoint security, quickly review… Read More »

Record ownership across business units (aka “matrix data access structure”) – it’s here now

I’ve been diligently checking for this setting in my admin portal a few times per week lately, and, finally, it has arrived: Before you proceed, you might want to read my earlier intro post for this feature: https://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics-crm/matrix-business-units-the-cool-new-way-of-setting-up-user-security-in-microsoft-dataverse/ In this post, I’m just going to show how this works. First of all, don’t be surprised… Read More »

How to: add a ribbon button that calls a Power Automate flow (and downloads generated document as a result)

If you ever wanted to add a ribbon button that would be calling a flow (one usage scenario for this is to start sing Power BI Paginated Reports and/or Power Automat Word Templates to generate documents/reports), there is a sample script below which you could use to achieve just that. Here is how the user… Read More »