In the previous post, I wrote about how we can use C# code in Power Automate connectors now. The example given there (converting a string to uppercase) was not that useful, of course, since we could simply use an expression and a “toUpper” function directly in the expression. So I thought of a more useful… Read More »
When it comes to implementing business logic In the Dataverse environments, we have a few valid options: Cloud flows Plugins Classic workflows Yes, classic workflows is not at the top of our minds these days, but, with no Flow alternative to the real-time workflows, I don’t see them going away easily yet. However, for all… Read More »
What exactly is the difference between solution upgrade and solution update? It might not be quite obvious from the description of each operation when you are importing a solution: Let’s do a quick test then. To start with, here is how my original solution looks like – there is nothing fancy there, it’s just a… Read More »
I’ve been hunting a missing dependency in my solution for almost two days. You’d think that should have been piece of cake – just go to the solution, and missing component, and that’s all you need to do. But, then, is it that simple? Here is the story of one elusive relationship (all table names… Read More »
I keep saying there is just no way to know everything about Power Platform these days. Below is a a year-old news, and I just ran into it out of a sudden while trying Power FX buttons (which I am still trying). Somehow, a new item showed up on the menu which I am pretty… Read More »
I think Power FX Command designer is going to be the news of the month (or, possibly, of the whole summer): https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-command-designer-with-power-fx-preview/ However, that’s something I’ll need to look at a bit later. In the meantime, there was a more pressing need on the project I’ve been working on, and that’s all about setting up… Read More »
So, we all know how managed solutions vs unmanaged solutions discussions used to be raging a few years ago. Then Microsoft stepped in to make it clear that managed solutions are recommended for production environments and unmanaged ones are only supposed to be used in development. This is where things currently stand, and this is… Read More »
It’s been a while since “treeview” experience had been added in the preview portal: https://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics/have-you-visited-preview-version-of-the-maker-portal-lately-there-is-solution-treeview-there/ Now we can also see “hidden” elements in the form designer! Classic designer had some nice stuff, after all, and now those features are making their way back into the new designer. There is “created by” on the form below,… Read More »
When configuring a data source in the plugin registration tool, there is this note which implies that we should be able to supply configuration settings to the data provider plug-ins: There are a few more details in the docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/data-platform/create-edit-virtual-entities Which is encouraging, but it’s still not clear how do we read those configuration settings… Read More »
And, no, it’s not a typo. It’s easy to have a solution that you can’t import – as long as some dependencies are missing in both the solution being imported and in the target environment, such a solution cannot be imported. But we also can’t export some solutions – I don’t see such errors often,… Read More »