Why? In my last post Power Platform: Current Value of an Environment Variable in a Solution, I tried to explain a product defect in Environment Variables. Apparently when you try updating the Current Value of an Environment Variable in a (previously imported) Managed Solution, it may seem impossible because of strange errors, notifications and greyed … Continue reading Power Platform: update Current Value of an Environment Variable in a Managed Solution
Power Platform: Current Value of an Environment Variable in a Solution
Why? Enterprise worthy Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in the Power Platform 💪. I like the concept of Unmanaged Solutions for development purposes versus the concept of Managed Solutions for production purposes a lot! However not all functionalities that "Dynamics Consultants" know from the Legacy / Classic experience (Dynamics Portal), are yet fully working for us … Continue reading Power Platform: Current Value of an Environment Variable in a Solution
Power Platform: Solution Import error handling
Why? When importing a solution into the Power Platform, for me it feels like crossing my fingers and hoping for a good outcome without a failed notification (commonly regarded as errors). But because the Power Platform (based on years of experience in Dynamics) has so many overwhelming possibilities, there can be a lot of "dependencies" … Continue reading Power Platform: Solution Import error handling
Power Apps: Get Dataverse Option Set ID as well as Label
Why? Dataverse (previously known as the Common Data Service (CDS)) is the promised land for Power Platform Business Apps and I definitely agree! However Option Sets coming from Dataverse used in Canvas Power Apps, return the textual label only... where the Choice Column of SharePoint returns an object containing the label as well as an … Continue reading Power Apps: Get Dataverse Option Set ID as well as Label
Power Automate: relate CDS records
Why? When you have entities in the Common Data Service (CDS) that are related to each other, every now and then you will want to relate records of these entities using a Power Automate Flow. 🖇 What? Unfortunately this is not as straight forward as just using the unique identifier of the record (GUID) in … Continue reading Power Automate: relate CDS records
Power App: Canvas Apps and Explicit column selection
Why? An issue can occur when you are using Canvas Apps and Data Sources that use related Lookup Data. The issue is that secondary data in the lookup suddenly returns a blank value ⁉ What? My symptoms were: in a Form Control using all default Data Cards, one of the Data Cards looking up data … Continue reading Power App: Canvas Apps and Explicit column selection
Power Automate: Add Common Data Service files as attachments to Modern Approval
Why? In my previous posts, I explained the example of Power Automate: Get Common Data Service Files related to an Entity to Power Automate: Email Common Data Service Files related to an Entity. Now we do not want to email the files, but add the files as attachment to the awesome Modern Approval of Power … Continue reading Power Automate: Add Common Data Service files as attachments to Modern Approval
Power Automate: Email Common Data Service Files related to an Entity
Why? In my previous post Power Automate: Get Common Data Service Files related to an Entity, I explained on how to enable attachments on a CDS Entity and on how to get those attachments (Notes) related to a CDS Record. But now we want to email those attachments 📧 What? I know 🙄: we should … Continue reading Power Automate: Email Common Data Service Files related to an Entity
Power Automate: Get Common Data Service Files related to an Entity
Why? Ever since the December 2019 announcement on improvements to data storage in Common Data Service announcing the File and Image data type, I have been waiting for it to be fully functional. As these improvements yet have to allow more than one attachment per added Field, I am still using the traditional relationshop to … Continue reading Power Automate: Get Common Data Service Files related to an Entity
SharePoint Saturday Warsaw at Microsoft Teams Online
Why? Dzień dobry! Last friday the online event of SharePoint & Office 365 Saturday Warsaw 2020 was being held online 😎. This supposed to be an event in Poland on a saturday but off course under the current Corona / COVID-19 circumstances that would not be possible. So the Community Rockstars Edi, Marcin & Tomasz … Continue reading SharePoint Saturday Warsaw at Microsoft Teams Online
