Remember the old days when all developers (and not only developers) had to also develop an habit of using CTRL+S to save their changes so not to lose them? There is a bit of that in the PowerApps / Dynamics Application designer right now. Depending on how you add entities to the sitemap in… Read More »
There have been a number of really good posts on the licensing so far, but, I think, the main problem for me used to be that I just could not consume all that information till I left the familiar space of the On-Premise implementations and started working in the online environment. So, in this… Read More »
Even if it’s only for myself, I just have to write it down so it sticks. Whenever I want to enable April preview in the environment, I need to go to the Power Platform admin center, and, from there, I need to click the environment link: It seems to be the only way to open… Read More »
You may have managed to put in an unmanaged change in production where you have agreed to use managed solutions only, and it may look like you are doing fine, nobody noticed.. So it’s all good until, suddenly, something starts going wrong! Here is one scenario that does not seem to work well… Read More »
Canvas Apps tutorials / samples are often using the same approach. They will show you how to create an application that is relying on the Gallery and Form controls and walk you through the basic usage of those controls. Here is an example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/customize-layout-sharepoint Those are very powerful controls and you can achieve a lot… Read More »
The answer is not “because it is what it is”! There is certainly more to it. I just created a new user and gave it a couple of roles: This use is supposed to see Customer Service Hub (Unified Interface) and Customer Service (Web)applications. Plus there is that default web application which is normally called… Read More »
This post is nothing but a relatively boring technical walkthrough.. Which is as promised in the previous (hopefully not so boring) teaser post Before you continue with this one, you may want to do some reading on how embedded canvas apps can be added to the model driven apps. I would suggest a few links… Read More »
I think at least half of my posts should start with “I was pulling my hair out, and then..” (Like the picture? Here is the source) If you ever tried creating a printer-ready screen in Dynamics that would, among other things, display a Base64 image stored in a field, you might know the feeling.… Read More »
It would be a challenge these days to find a single person who does not have any picture id at all. Driver licences, health cards, passports, access cards.. Those id-s are everywhere – I probably have to carry at least 2-3 every day, and there are a few more I have to carry occasionally.… Read More »
Yesterday, I was scratching my head trying to figure out why a value I stored in a variable was not displayed correctly in the text box. Turned out I was doing this kind of thing: I was setting a context variable in one place, and I was setting a global variable in another. Both variables… Read More »