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
Power Apps: migrate your Portal between environments
Why? Without the need for third party paid tools, you may want to migrate the configuration of your Power Apps Portal from either a backup or another environment. Only the configuration because content has its own migration path 🚥. What? A post on how to use the Configuration Migration tool within the XRM Tool to … Continue reading Power Apps: migrate your Portal between environments
Power Apps: Contacts authenticating on your Portal
Why? This is the third post in a series on Power Apps Portals. What? In my previous post https://knowhere365.space/power-apps-inviting-contacts-to-your-portal/ inviting Contacts was explained. In this part I will focus on the options available to let other (external) people authenticate on your portal. Authentication lets a person show your portal that they are who they say … Continue reading Power Apps: Contacts authenticating on your Portal
Power Apps: inviting Contacts to your Portal
Why? This is the second post in a series on Power Apps Portals. What? Read my previous part https://knowhere365.space/power-apps-basic-setup-of-your-portal/ for the basics. In this part I will focus on the options available to let other (external) people access your portal. For this post it is important to know that Contacts is the one and only … Continue reading Power Apps: inviting Contacts to your Portal
