Modern advanced find vs original advanced find – how do they compare? It’s not a single component anymore Modern advanced find is not, really, a single component anymore. We can edit filters, we can manage views, and we can edit columns. All of that is done separately: Conceptually, it’s, probably, not bad, since using Advanced… Read More »
When you are caught in the middle of “which technology do we choose” to develop this application, and when the choice is between Power Platform and custom development, there is rarely a straightforward answer, but there are lots of considerations. Why don’t we go over some of them at least. There is no licensing in… Read More »
Come to think of it, a Power Automate cloud flow with an HTTP trigger and a response action is not that different from a web page for the outside world. Just look at this: If I had contact id passed to this flow as a query parameter, I could use Dataverse connector to set “do… Read More »
Occasionally, you’d probably want to know the time stamp of the last successful run of your power automate flow. For example, you might be working on the data synchronization, and you might need to track those timestamps somehow. Which is a bit of a problem, it seems. You might try following Linn’s blog here: https://linnzawwin.blogspot.com/2020/08/get-flow-run-by-using-dynamics-365cds.html… Read More »
Have you ever wanted to get the list of users a canvas app has been shared with? Of course you could go to the maker portal and look at it there: But you can also do it in your flows easily (assuming you have permissions). There is Power Apps for Admins Connector: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/powerappsforadmins/ And it… Read More »
Power Platform and low code development are not exactly synonyms, but they are close. As in, very close. That seems to be creating an interesting problem. We talk about citizen developers, we talk about professional developers, we talk about Fusion teams… That all makes sense, it seems, but would it be possible to have a citizen developer-only… Read More »
What are Data Loss Prevention polices in Power Platform and why would you use those? That’s the question I had to answer recently in a relatively concise manner, and, perhaps, what came out could be useful for others, too. Essentially, the purpose of DLP in Power Platform is to help prevent users from unintentionally exposing… Read More »
When debugging a plugin, I often use PluginExecutionExceptions to display debugging messages. But, of course, it all works great when my development environment (or the plugin) is relatively isolated. And it all falls apart when there are other people working in the same environment, and they suddenly start seeing those error messages. There is a… Read More »
The question of setting up a branching strategy when doing development in Dataverse comes up almost inevitably. It’s a discussion that happens at a certain point, and it can be happening on the same project a number of times as people are joining the project. Would probably make sense to explain why we are having… Read More »
Yesterday, I posted a question asking what does it mean for a flow to be “within context” of the licensed application. Based on what I was able to figure out eventually, the technical answer might be somewhat different from what we could be assuming. Note: you may want to confirm licensing with Microsoft whenever you… Read More »