Sometimes, project requirements can take an interesting turn, and we may need to think of unusual solutions. Fortunately, we have powerful options up the sleeve, since, after all, we are not talking about some kind of a csv file here – it’s Microsoft Dataverse! So, when it comes to the activity tables in Power Platform,… Read More »
It seems this old new debate is starting again, so now that Jukka and Natraj have posted great articles on the topic: https://jukkaniiranen.com/2021/04/democratizing-code/ https://dreamingincrm.com/2021/04/08/does-power-platform-need-developers-anymore/ I really can’t help but chime in, even if not on that same scale. See, I code. However, I used to write about it before, and I’m still stating the same:… Read More »
When we have a team and a bunch of users added to the team, would you expect every user to have access to whatever another user has access to? Since, after all, they are all team members, so should not they be sharing the data? Basically, what if we have the following set up: Is… Read More »
The other day, I was wondering if I could, somehow, come up with an app that would be tracking twitter mentions of certain keywords, and, then, do some analytics on top of that. And you know what? It took me 4 hours in total to get it up and running on Power Platform – the… Read More »
As everybody else has already noticed, CRUD support has been added to the Virtual Entities: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/data-platform/virtual-entities/sample-ve-provider-crud-operations A while ago, I blogged about how we can use canvas apps with virtual entities, and there was a sample plugin there: https://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics-crm/virtual-entities-revisited-setting-up-a-virtual-entity/ So, I figured, I’d just try updating that plugin to support create/update/delete. Since it is, already,… Read More »
Apparently, model-driven apps may need to be activated now: This is part of the ALM updates released recently: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/key-alm-updates/ Somehow, there seem to be a bit of inconsistency there. For example, as of writing this blog post, when I created an app through the classic designer, for instance, it’s did not show up in the… Read More »
Business process flows can definitely help guide our application users – they always look nice in the demos, and they easily draw positive feedback. But, it seems, when the BPF is designed to cover multiple entities, there are some quirks there. Here is the BPF I wanted to create: There are two entities involved: Main… Read More »
This is definitely not something new – you’ll find quite a few blog posts on this topic. But if, for some reason, you are not aware of this feature, it might make your day. As it made mine a few months back… and the only reason I’m talking about it now is that, well, it’s… Read More »
In the previous post, I wrote about how we can use Dataverse image columns in the Power BI Paginated reports (or in the SSRS reports for that matter). What kept bugging me is whether we could actually use a Power Apps Portal to surface that image. Turned out that is not doable, at least not… Read More »
Now that SSRS authoring tools have finally been updated (and there is a great article Nick Doelman published the other day on this topic), it might be the right time to ponder on which technology we should be using moving forward since there are two now: Power BI Paginated Reports SSRS So, how do… Read More »