Author Archives: Alex Shlega

Using flow-generated word documents in model-driven apps

Document Templates have been available in model-driven apps for a while now – they are integrated with the model-driven apps, and it’s easy for the users to access them. They do have limitations, though. We cannot filter those documents, we can only use 1 level of relationships, on each relationship we can only load 100… Read More »

Flow connections and CI/CD

I am wondering if PowerAutomate flows can really be part of CI/CD when there are non-CDS connections? There seem to be a few problems here: Once deployed, the flow is turned off, and all non-CDS connections have to be re-wired in order to turn it on. That’s a manual step While re-wiring the connections, we’ll… Read More »

Adaptive Cards – PowerStorm session findings

Just had a really cool PowerStorm session with Aric Levin and Linn Zaw Win. You would think that’s not a lot of people, and there would be no argument there, but, that said, the idea of those sessions is not to do a demo/presentation, but, rather, to try something out together. Long story short, I… Read More »

PowerStorm watch for July 30 – Adaptive Cards possible

Hey everybody – another PowerStorm watch has just been confirmed, and, apparently, it’s going to happen on Thursday, July 30, at 9 PM EST.     According to the itaintboring powerologists, here are some examples of the conditions you may expect during the event: Different ideas of using Adaptive Cards with Power Platform will be… Read More »

When would onSave form event occur in model-driven apps?

We can use three different functions to save a form: formContext.data.entity.save formContext.data.save formContext.data.refresh(true…)   Off the top of your head, do you know which one will result in the “onSave” form event and when? Those details might not be quite obvious when looking at the documentation for each of the functions separately, but there is… Read More »

Using application monitor to troubleshoot Model-Driven apps

You may have heard that we can now use Monitor with model-driven applications. It can provide some very useful context about the client-side behavior of your apps, but there is one option which may be particularly useful when troubleshooting end-user issues. It seems this process is supposed to be done through the “Invite” button below:… Read More »