Just noticed a new button showing up in my environments this morning, and, at first, I thought “wow”, but, then, I thought a bit more, and now I ‘m wondering. It does allow opening the same model-driven screen in a separate window, but is it worth giving up some real-estate in the command bar for… Read More »
It is often helpful to split bigger Power Automate flows into a bunch of smaller ones, so there is a parent flow, and, possibly, a few child flows. However, when the child flow fails, here is what you might see as a result in the flow run history: In the example above, there was a… Read More »
When working with model-driven applications, we always have to publish our changes to see them applied to the user interface. In some cases, it’s ok. We can keep adding columns to the form and publish those changes one, for example. That’s a little frustrating, but it’s acceptable. In other cases, this may become much more… Read More »
When working with Microsoft Dataverse, have you ever tried to figure out what exactly is happening behind the scene, and why that specific column is getting a certain value which you would not expect it would be getting? One might think it is easy to do, but consider how many ways are there to actually… Read More »
The month of October is upon us, and, with that, there are all the pumpkins, costumes, decorations, and all the other Halloween stuff. So, then, why don’t we talk about the skeletons we have either found, or, possibly, left in the virtual closets of all those Dynamics/PowerPlatform projects we have worked on? While doing this,… Read More »
I was looking at my blog statistics in Google analytics today (doing a review every now and then), and noticed something that I’m curious about. To start with, I don’t do a lot of presentations, so my blog, for the most part, is all about delivering written material. Which is available in any time zone… Read More »
I was playing with the side panes tonight, and, even though there is no argument they have great potential , I wonder if you’ve already started using them or if there are a few missing features which are holding you off? To start with, side panes are pretty well documented in the docs. They are… Read More »
First of all, it was nice to see familiar faces there, and it was at least equally nice to see unfamiliar ones! Thank you all for showing up to participate in the discussion, it was much appreciated. To recap, we had a quick presentation – you will find the link below: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/116l7TaolAAIjOrbJv1PxuhGNr1eFG58-iCe26Tu0qNg/edit?usp=sharing And, in the… Read More »
This one is almost of an academical interest; since, after all, there is Dataverse connector available already. But, just on the principle, I was wondering if it were possible to use C# code in the custom connector to connect to Dataverse? Actually, there is nothing special about Dataverse – the same approach could be used… Read More »
I wrote my previous post knowing full well it was going to sound controversial to any pro-dev, that’s if a pro-dev were to read it. Turned out a fellow MVP, Daryl LaBar, did, and he just raised the bar by responding with a well-articulated article of his own: https://dotnetdust.blogspot.com/2021/09/Long-Functions-Are-Always-A-Code-Smell.html Before I continue, I have to… Read More »