A number of folks have pointed out that solution environment variables are, now, in preview: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/common-data-service/environmentvariables I was looking at it yesterday, and, it seems, I’m having a bit mixed emotions. Environment variables seem to represent a hybrid experience: we can work with them in the model-driven application, but we can also work with… Read More »
You may have heard of it already, but there is going to be a new way to purchase Power Platform services soon – Self-Service Purchase Capabilities are arriving in November: There is a corresponding FAQ page that answers some of the questions you may have: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/commerce/subscriptions/self-service-purchase-faq One thing to keep in mind, though, is… Read More »
In the previous post I talked about using a “RetrieveMultiple” (+Update/Create) plugin to incorporate business logic into a Canvas App. And, of course, the very first question I got is “why using a plugin if you could use a Flow”? It’s a fair question, and I figured I’d try to provide a fair answer. Have… Read More »
Sometimes, a Canvas App can save a project. This would be almost impossible for me to say even a year ago; however, the way my current project evolved in the last two weeks, I can think of no better tool to quickly deliver the functionality required by the client. And, so, if you are… Read More »
I am wondering how many of us have missed this post: “Preview for usability enhancements to lookups in Unified Interface” https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/preview-for-usability-enhancements-to-lookups-in-unified-interface/ I certainly did. So, to summarize, here is what’s happening now when you are clicking that magnifying glass button in the lookup field: If “recent list” is enabled for the lookup, you will… Read More »
Having deployed my Flow in the Test environment earlier today, I quickly realized it was not working. Turned out Flow designer was complaining about the connections in the Flow with the following error: Some of the connections are not authorized yet. If you just created a workflow from a template, please add the authorized connections… Read More »
It seems in the effort to promote PowerApps, Microsoft has created the situation where there had to be a way to take this fast spreading powerapps movement under control – otherwise, everyone with the proper license can create environments, so, if there are 100 licensed users, we may end up with 100 trial environment… Read More »
Before you read this post, here is the disclaimer: whatever I write below is my own interpretation which you may want to confirm with Microsoft. Why is there a disclaimer? Well, I’m going to talk licensing below… So, you know there are two different types of CDS (Dynamics CDS and regular CDS). I am… Read More »
I was curious to see what writing an actual custom PowerApps component using the PowerApps Component Framework (PCF) would look like, but, up until a few days ago, there was always something in the way. Now that I finally got some hands-on experience, it seems there are a few things which I wanted to… Read More »
This post is a proof of concept for the following scenario: Would not it be nice if we could use more than one security group so that, for example, we would have admins in one group and all the other users in another. This way, we might add that admin group to Sharepoint so admin… Read More »