Why? There have been a lot of cool announcements last month, but Microsoft Fabric (Introducing Microsoft Fabric: The data platform for the era of AI | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure) integrating with Power Platform definitely was a big one! The way Dataverse can be used in Microsoft Fabric looks amazing 😎. What? As an … Continue reading Power Platform: Dataverse in Microsoft Fabric
Dataverse: use the force of the API in your browser
Why? When I started using Dataverse with Power Automate, I was always using the Power Apps Portal to lookup the definition schema of a Table. Think of the scenario where we need the internal Column / Field name from a Table / Entity. For example in OData filter queries of Power Automate. We would need … Continue reading Dataverse: use the force of the API in your browser
Dataverse for Teams: sharing Canvas Power Apps
Why? Ever since it was introduced as Project Oakdale, I have followed the development of Dataverse for Teams (Microsoft Dataverse for Teams overview - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn) with much interest. One of the features I liked very much was about sharing Canvas Power Apps beyond a team (You can now share Dataverse for … Continue reading Dataverse for Teams: sharing Canvas Power Apps
Power Platform: Current Value of an Environment Variable in the Modern Maker Portal
Why? I like the updated Modern Maker Portal experience of Power Apps a lot. However updating the Current Value of an Environment Variable in the Modern Maker Portal is no longer possible using the method explained in Power Platform: verify Current Value of an Environment Variable in a Managed Solution. In a lot of the … Continue reading Power Platform: Current Value of an Environment Variable in the Modern Maker Portal
Power Platform: verify Current Value of an Environment Variable in a Managed Solution
Why? Microsoft has improved the Environment Variable experience a lot since my last blog posts on this topic (Power Platform: update Current Value of an Environment Variable in a Managed Solution). Even the documentation has a lot more details now (Use environment variables in solutions - Power Apps | Microsoft Docs). However there is still … Continue reading Power Platform: verify Current Value of an Environment Variable in a Managed Solution
Dataverse: use Excel Online of Model Driven Power Apps
Why? Recently I had to import 9.000 records into a Dataverse table. I wanted to use the Excel Online option of Model Driven Power Apps in Dataverse. I like this option because that is one of the options that a "simple" end user has when using a Model Driven Power App. It is easy to … Continue reading Dataverse: use Excel Online of Model Driven Power Apps
Power Apps: Dataverse Choice Column filter from Combobox
Why? A few Posts ago (Power Apps: Get Dataverse Option Set ID as well as Label), I showed that working with a Choice Column in Dataverse (previously known as an Option Set in the Common Data Service) could be challenging.... Mainly thanks to all the functionality that exists behind these "complex objects". Functionalities like multi-language … Continue reading Power Apps: Dataverse Choice Column filter from Combobox
Power Automate: delete a deleted Flow
Why? We can delete a Power Automate Flow in the Power Automate Portal. However it seems that the Flow is not really gone, so how can we delete a deleted Flow? 🤯 Even though we cannot find the Flow in the Power Automate Portal anymore, somewhere in Dataverse there is still a record of your … Continue reading Power Automate: delete a deleted Flow
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
