Category Archives: PowerApps

How to: add a ribbon button that calls a Power Automate flow (and downloads generated document as a result)

If you ever wanted to add a ribbon button that would be calling a flow (one usage scenario for this is to start sing Power BI Paginated Reports and/or Power Automat Word Templates to generate documents/reports), there is a sample script below which you could use to achieve just that. Here is how the user… Read More »

Canvas app error: the requested operation is invalid. Server Response: _scrubbedSensitiveData_

Here is an interesting error I ran into the other day: It does sound like there was something in the server response that was considered “sensitive data”, but what could have happened? The screenshot above is, actually, from the application I created specifically to reproduce the error and see why it’s happening, so it’s very… Read More »

DataSourceInfo – checking table permissions

You might have seen Lance Delano’s post about permissions support functions: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/permissions-support-in-datasourceinfo-and-new-recordinfo-functions-for-dataverse/ This can be very useful, and it sort of feels this might be part of the functionality that would be required to use Power FX when configuring command bar buttons in model driven apps (since we would need to disable/enable those buttons based… Read More »

Using C# code in custom connector to connect to Dataverse?

This one is almost of an academical interest; since, after all, there is Dataverse connector available already. But,  just on the principle, I was wondering if it were possible to use C# code in the custom connector to connect to Dataverse? Actually, there is nothing special about Dataverse – the same approach could be used… Read More »