The technique for adding alternating colors to a Canvas App gallery has been described in various posts, here is one of those: http://powerapps.co.nz/auckland/index.php/our-blog/41-add-alternating-row-colours-to-power-apps-gallery We just need to add a new column to the data source, which is going to store the sequential row number, and, once we have it, we can use it to calculate… Read More »
ITA Business Rules Admin v1.01 has been released, and it comes with some cool features: 1. You can now register your rules to run in Pre-Validation, in Pre-Operation, or in Post-Operation Why is this important? Those stages correspond to the plugin execution stages, and, depending on what happens behind the scene, Post-Operation data may be… Read More »
These are not the same business rules you are used to in Dataverse – these are relying on the plugins and FetchXML, so, technically, there is nothing new since we’ve been using plugins forever. However, the cool thing about them is that: Everything is in git, and you’ll find plugin source codes, as well as… Read More »
Or, in our case, there is a new user in Power Pages: Power Pages :: Improved Dataverse connection using Dataverse Application User | Microsoft Power Pages In short, this change unlinks portal accounts from the built-in System user in Dataverse, and, even though the transition is supposed to be smooth, I figured I’d dig a… Read More »
When talking about the theming, we may actually need to talk about two different aspects of it, though they usually come together. There are UI “appearance” settings such as font weight and size, background color, border width, etc. But there are, also, layout templates which are meant to define common application layout, layout elements, and,… Read More »
I was going to come up with an intro for this post to describe how diverse Power Platform has become etc, but it seems to be a moot point, I just need to admit that, normally, I do a lot more work with the Dataverse-backed apps / flows than with any other apps/flows. So, from… Read More »
Have you ever thought of how your cloud flows keep working even after you diligently followed your company policy and updated your password a few times in a row? I am not necessarily going to be 100% accurate below. Would be happy to be 80% close, and, please, feel free to drop me a note… Read More »
Imagine being a Power Platform administrator and dealing with the users having fun and creating Canvas App all over the place. They might be doing it in the default environment, which would be expected to some extent, or they might be doing it in the dedicated environments without thinking too much of the potential data… Read More »
Have been scratching your head trying to figure out where to see the apps / flows created by other users in the environment, you might have noticed that those apps and flows may need to be shared with you, even if you have maker/admin permissions: In the example above, I don’t see personal flows created… Read More »
Jukka has been hitting the nail on Power Pages costs with his posts lately, but I started to wonder if there are different usage scenarios, and, perhaps, there are situations when Power Pages can even be used for blogging? Actually, the fact that we are seriously talking about it now means Power Pages have come… Read More »