Recently, I happened to look into how google sheets connector works, and, to be honest, I was a little bit disappointed. First, I wanted to blame google. But, it turned out, there is no hiding the fact that’s it’s been provided by Microsoft itself: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/googlesheet/ In general, this connector works. But there is one notable… Read More »
Bitwise operators are, likely, not the most popular operators in the low-code world, so there is no surprise Power Automate does not have those. Which is a bit unfortunate, since, when we do need those operators, it seems like we have to opt for a custom connector/azure function/etc. But, come to think of it, if… Read More »
If you ever tried using “List Records” action with the POA table (principalobjectaccess), you might have noticed it’s not showing up in the dropdown list: However, it’s easy to solve. You just need to know the “set” name for that table (which is “principalobjectaccessset”), and, then, you can enter that name as a custom value:… Read More »
You have probably heard that Entities are Tables now? If not, have a look here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/powerapps/maker/common-data-service/data-platform-intro#terminology-updates Well, am I thrilled about it? Am I concerned about it? Quite frankly, we should all get used, by now, to all those changes in the product names and/or in the terminology around Microsoft products. Sometimes, those changes are… Read More »
Right on the heels of my previous post where I was talking about delegation in Canvas Apps, here is another one on the same topic. We can’t help but break delegation when filtering polymorphic lookups, right? Since, of course, “AsType” cannot be delegated: Well, if you are up to writing a little plugin, it’s, actually,… Read More »
Here is a warning message which I keep running into: (The “Filter” part of this formula might not work correctly on large data sets) It’s not that I keep running into it every day. But I find myself looking at this warning every time I’m setting up data sources for a new application. So, maybe,… Read More »
The script below might help if you wanted to read CDS environment variable value in your javascript web resource. top.environmentVariables = []; function getEnvironmentVariableInternal(varName){ “use strict”; top.environmentVariables[varName] = null; Xrm.WebApi.retrieveMultipleRecords(“environmentvariabledefinition”, `?$top=1&fetchXml=<fetch version=’1.0′ output-format=’xml-platform’ mapping=’logical’ distinct=’true’> <entity name=’environmentvariabledefinition’> <attribute name=’defaultvalue’ /> <filter type=’and’> <condition attribute=’schemaname’ operator=’eq’ value=’` + varName + `’ /> </filter> <link-entity name=’environmentvariablevalue’ from=’environmentvariabledefinitionid’… Read More »
With Wednesday being a holiday (Remembrance Day in Canada), Thursday feels a bit like Monday. Which means I am still in the “holiday mode”, I don’t necessarily want to do anything at all, and, hence, some of the minor issues with Power Platform which should have been fixed long ago seem somewhat inflated on this… Read More »
You know how we can pick output fields from the Flow actions: So, why is it that, for the flow below, “Filter Array” output is not presented in the same way it’s done for the “Get Rows” action? Even though I’m really just filtering on the results of the “Get rows”, so would not it… Read More »
If you ever wanted to use Google sheets in Power Automate, there is a connector for that: However, it turned out to be a little tricky, and this is what this post is about. Imagine there is a very simple spreadsheet: What if I wanted to read a specific row from that spreadsheet in the… Read More »