For some reason, I got hooked up on the custom connectors for the time being. It’s a bit of a learning curve for somebody who has not been doing a lot of development outside of the plugins/scripts/occasional .NET for a while, so, if nothing else, it’s a good exercise in re-building at least some of… Read More »
As far as adding custom code to PowerApps/PowerAutomate goes, I’ve looked at three different options so far: Custom Connectors Azure Functions CDS Custom Actions Those are all valid options, but there are things to consider which go beyond purely technical aspects. For example, even though some Office 365 licenses include Power Apps use rights,… Read More »
Have you ever noticed there is at least one entity in the Model-Driven apps (and in Dynamics before) which would sometimes claim a form is read-only, but which would still be somewhat updatable in the user interface? Even more, this peculiar behavior may not be easily controlled through java scripts. See, you can update “Regarding” field… Read More »
That’s just how many linked entities you can have in FetchXml. I guess I have never needed more than this. That’s until today, of course: Actually, this is not how I discovered it. I was writing an SSRS report and the number of linked entities in my FetchXml query kept growing, so at some… Read More »
We all know that by October 2020 classic web client will be retiring, and UCI interface will take over everywhere where the classic web client might still be reigning at the moment of writing this post. This can be a very sensitive topic, though, and it can be quite confusing, too. As mentioned in this… Read More »
I used to think that connectors would be isolated from my local machine in the sense that, since they are in the cloud, my machine would be talking to the Flow/Canvas Apps/Flow Designer/etc, but not to the connector directly. Basically, like this: And I was going to mention it in the context of security in… Read More »
I will start this post with exactly the same picture as the previous one to keep us all alert. Remember, Logic Apps have Inline Scripts now – there is no time to relax till we find an appropriate answer to this challenge: And, even though I feel much better now keeping in mind that… Read More »
Just look at this – it’s a screenshot from Logic Apps: To say that I felt bad when I saw this is to say nothing! I was pretty much devastated. Do you know that Logic Apps have an Inline Script component that a logic app designer can use to run Javascript? And we, Power… Read More »
I just learned how to create balloons! At first, it actually did not look that interesting at all when I clicked the question mark button: Yep, it felt a little empty there. So, I started to wonder, what can I do to make it more interesting? Turned out there is quite a bit… Read More »
I got a tricky Power Automate Flow the other day – it was boldly refusing to meet my expectations in what it was supposed to do. In retrospect, as much as I would want to say that it was all happening since Power Automate was in a bad mood, there seem to be a couple… Read More »