Earlier this month, I wrote a couple of post about reporting/document generation. While working on it, I also tried one other option which you may find useful, too. One of the biggest problems with Word Templates, be it classic word templates in model-driven apps or new populate word template action in Power Automate is that… Read More »
There are a few reasons I still have not, really, touched Power BI (beyond some very basic things just to see what it’s capable of), but, having looked at my reporting options recently, I figured Power BI paginated reports might be what’s required on the project. Luckily, it turned out we might be fine on… Read More »
For some reason, the part of Power Platform that used to be Dynamics CRM (and was, then, transformed into what’s called “first party” applications) has always been limited in its reporting and document generation capabilities. It’s still the case, it seems, and it’s a strange situation for an enterprise-grade platform. After all, what’s the point… Read More »
A few years ago, there was a common mantra on pretty much any project I was on: “Stick to the configuration. There should be no javascripts and/or plugins” This was happening since quite a few people had run into problems with those low-level customizations in the past. Which is understandable – to start with, you… Read More »
Connection references have been released (well, not quite, but they are in public preview, which is close enough), and, from the ALM support perspective, it might be one of the most anticipated features for those of us who have been struggling with all those connections in the Flows (chances are, if you are using Flows,… Read More »
Document Templates have been available in model-driven apps for a while now – they are integrated with the model-driven apps, and it’s easy for the users to access them. They do have limitations, though. We cannot filter those documents, we can only use 1 level of relationships, on each relationship we can only load 100… Read More »
What seems to be the most popular reason why a business rule would not be working? There is very little that can really break in the business rules, except for one thing: we can include certain fields into the business rule conditions, and, then, forget to add those fields to the context (which can be… Read More »
I am wondering if PowerAutomate flows can really be part of CI/CD when there are non-CDS connections? There seem to be a few problems here: Once deployed, the flow is turned off, and all non-CDS connections have to be re-wired in order to turn it on. That’s a manual step While re-wiring the connections, we’ll… Read More »
It seems to be very common when there is a project which is trying to implement SCRUM, and which can never really do it because of the inherent problem which occurs when there is a dedicated QA team. SCRUM assumes QA happens within the sprint, but, when scrum development team is different from the QA… Read More »
So, CDS is DataFlex now. Actually, it’s important to call it Microsoft Dataflex since there is a separate non-Microsoft product called DataFlex. It’s the second rebranding of what we used to know as XRM, but it may be the one that will stick for a little longer (I know what you are thinking… but we… Read More »