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

Power Automate: Reply to an adaptive card post in Microsoft Teams

Why? Because adaptive cards are so cool to make and even cooler to introduce to the business, you should also want to be able to reply on an adaptive card post from a Power Automate Flow. Especially from a business point of view the data in an adaptive card is probably no longer relevant after … Continue reading Power Automate: Reply to an adaptive card post in Microsoft Teams

Power Automate: Calendar invites from a Shared Mailbox

Why? Sending an invite from a Shared Mailbox using Power Automate can be quite useful when building your own business applications because then you can integrate and automate the actions that normally someone would have to do manually from a Shared Mailbox 💌. What? This post will show how to send a Calendar invite from … Continue reading Power Automate: Calendar invites from a Shared Mailbox

Power Automate: get data from email body

Why? I recently was invited to join Jon Levesque on his Youtube channel for a small topic on the Power Platform. I have been wanting to blog about this for a while now but a video may be even better for explaning purposes 💪 What? This post is just to reference the video and make … Continue reading Power Automate: get data from email body