If you look at the Power Apps licensing guide, you will see that flow execution is, usually, permitted within app context: That same wording applies to pretty much all licence types, including Dynamics 365. And there is a corresponding note in the Power Apps Licensing FAQs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/powerapps-flow-licensing-faq Question, though. How do you read this? For… Read More »
In Microsoft Dataverse, business rules are not application-specific. They can be scoped to a certain main form, they can be scoped to a table, or they can be scoped to all forms in that table (in the latter case, this would mean the rules would also apply to all quick create forms). Model-Driven applications will… Read More »
For some reason, this issue comes up every now and then. It may come up when talking to the new application users, to the new developers, to the business analysts sometimes… and, usually, it needs to be addressed quickly. Basically, it might not be obvious that different applications in the same environment might still be… Read More »
If one says “A”, he has to say “B”, right? So here is an addition to my yesterday’s “introduction to Microsoft Dataverse security model”. Hope you’ll find it useful, too. In the basic security model, every user belongs to a business unit, and, when a role is assigned to a user, all permissions are applied… Read More »
Not sure this overview of the security model in Microsoft Dataverse offers better/additional insight, but I came up with it anyways while working on the Power Platform course, so, hopefully, it’ll be useful. In Microsoft Dataverse, security model operates with the following concepts: There is a Dataverse Environment – it has its own database, its… Read More »
re you or your team looking for a guided training on some / all of the topics below? Here is how it works: 1. Power Platform Security We will look at the Dataverse security model and its implications for different Power Platform components. Time-permitting, we will also discuss related aspects of Sharepoint security, quickly review… Read More »
I’ve been diligently checking for this setting in my admin portal a few times per week lately, and, finally, it has arrived: Before you proceed, you might want to read my earlier intro post for this feature: https://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics-crm/matrix-business-units-the-cool-new-way-of-setting-up-user-security-in-microsoft-dataverse/ In this post, I’m just going to show how this works. First of all, don’t be surprised… Read More »
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 »
It happens every now and then that I have to re-create a columns across multiple environments, all because of the data type change. Sometimes, there are good reasons for that, and, sometimes, all I can do is kick myself for not thinking it through from the beginning; since, of course, changing data type for a… Read More »
I like how Microsoft keeps introducing changes to the Power Apps licensing – it’s good to see prices going down, API limits going up, and new licensing options being introduced in addition to the existing ones. So, what’s the story with that new “pay as you go” plan? https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/ It’s an interesting addition to the… Read More »