Category Archives: PowerApps

Lookups behavior in Wave 2 – recent items, wildcard search, magnifying glass button, etc

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 »

Using PowerShell to export/import solutions, data, and Word Templates

I blogged about it before, but now that ItAintBoring.CDS.PowerShell library has been fine tuned, it might be time to do it again. There are three parts to this post: Introduction ItAintBoring.CDS.PowerShell installation instructions ItAintBoring.CDS.PowerShell usage example INTRODUCTION There are different ways we can set up ci/cd – we can use Azure Devops, we… Read More »

Test harness for PCF controls – we can also use “start npm start”

While developing a PCF control, you might want to start the test harness. Although, if you are, like me, not doing PCF development daily, let me clarify what the “test harness” is. Essentially, it’s what you can/should use to test your PCF control without having to deploy it into the CDS environment. Once it’s started,… Read More »

Managed solutions – let’s debunk some misconceptions

I have a strange attitude towards managed solutions. In general, I don’t always see great benefits in using them. On the other hand, this is what Microsoft recommends for production environments, so should I even be bringing this up? This is why I probably don’t mind it either way now (managed or unmanaged); although, if… Read More »

Choosing the right Model-Driven App Supporting Technology

While switching between Visual Studio, where I was adding yet another plugin, and Microsoft Flow designer, where I had to tweak a flow earlier this week, I found myself going over another episode of self-assessment which, essentially, was all about trying to answer this question: “why am I using all those different technologies on… Read More »

PCF controls in Canvas Apps and why using Xrm namespace might not be a good idea

I wanted to see how a custom PCF control would work in a canvas app, and, as it turned out, it just works if you make sure this experimental feature has been enabled in the environment: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-experimental-release-of-the-powerapps-component-framework-for-canvas-apps/ You also need to enable components for the app: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/component-framework/component-framework-for-canvas-apps So, since I tried it for the Validated… Read More »

Upcoming API call limits: a few things to keep in mind

Microsoft is introducing daily API call limits in the October licensing: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/power-platform/admin/api-request-limits-allocations This will affect all user accounts, all types of licenses, all types of applications/flows. Even non-interactive/application/admin user accounts will be affected. This may give you a bit of a panic attack when you are reading it the first time, but there are a… Read More »

New licensing is just around the corner now – more details keep coming out

Microsoft has just published more details on the upcoming licensing changes – don’t miss this update: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/updates-to-microsoft-365-dynamics-365-powerapps-and-microsoft-flow-licensing I know there are different ways to look at it – some of us are working more on the model-driven applications side, yet others are using CanvasApps and/or Flows. What’s coming might affect us differently. However, looking at… Read More »

DevOps for Dynamics/PowerApps – Q & A

In the last several weeks, I wrote a few blog posts on the devops topic. However, I also meant to conclude those series with a dedicated Q & A post, so here it goes… 1. Why did I use PowerApps build tools? Quite frankly, it was, mostly, out of curiosity. There are other community… Read More »

Use AAD Groups to set up your PowerApps / Dynamics teams

Have you tried creating a team lately? If not, give it a try, and you may see a couple of team types that were not there before and that might actually get your AD admins excited: Now imagine that there is a group in AAD which you want to use to set up a… Read More »