I found myself in a little weird situation the other day when I had to figure out how to explain the difference between Power Pages and Model Driven apps. It all started with some feedback along the lines of model-driven apps having limits to how much we can customize their look and feel (without essentially… Read More »
Microsoft has been implying the existence of “internal makers community” when promoting Power Platform a lot. This is, likely, where all CoE ideas are coming from. This is where fusion teams make more sense. This is what may make it easier for the citizen developers to do their work. And, on a practical note, this… Read More »
Here is the answer: It’s a bit counterintuitive, I guess. Imagine you were a system administrator in the environment, and you knew there were “Permissions Test” canvas app in that environment. You might think you’d be able to see it, but, in reality, it might not be showing up: Which would not, really, mean the… 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 »
Recently, I have been working on a training for application users which might be helpful to both users and new model-driven application makers: https://www.itaintboring.com/downloads/training/ModelDrivenApplicationsforApplicationUsers.pdf It is meant to cover model-driven application functionality from the user perspective. To be fair, there is a lot to cover, so this is not going to be absolutely exhaustive, but… 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 »
I was working on a condensed version of the licensing guide which could be presented without really going into the details, and here is what I ended up with so far (this is ignoring Virtual Agents, Power BI, and Portals) A user can get licensed for Power Platform and/or Power Automate through the following means:… Read More »
This post should have been written before the one where I had a sample script which can call a flow to download a document, but, since these two posts happened to come out in the reverse order, it seems this is, technically, a prequel. Hm… If you have not seen the previous post, maybe read… 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 »
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 »