Why? In one of my previous blog posts Power Automate: Flows within context of Power Apps, I already explained that Microsoft will enforce Power Automate licensing on Flows using premium functionalities. Here I also explained on how to associate a Flow within context in case Premium Power Apps licensing is enough. Now I recently started … Continue reading Power Automate: Associate a Flow within context of Power Apps
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
Power Automate: Flows within context of Power Apps
Why? It has been quite some while now since Microsoft announced that Power Automate Flows using premium functionalities, could run within the context of Power Apps. But it was only recently that I came across an enforcement notification from a Power Automate Flow: "This flow's owner needs a premium license". The instructions to get a … Continue reading Power Automate: Flows within context of Power Apps
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
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 Apps: source code edit for Canvas Apps in Visual Studio Code
Why? In April, I showed how to unpack and repack Power Apps .msapp files of Canvas Apps in the blog post Power Apps: source code edit for Canvas Apps » Knowhere365. Using this functionality, we can view and edit the source code of Canvas Apps. In a recent announcement last week (Canvas source code tool … Continue reading Power Apps: source code edit for Canvas Apps in Visual Studio Code
Power Apps: source code edit for Canvas Apps
Why? Ever since I saw the post Source code files for Canvas apps from Microsoft, I thought this might come in handy for some of my Canvas Apps. As a non-coding Citizen Developer, I just thought that day would be more in the future. A day when this feature would not be experimental anymore but … Continue reading Power Apps: source code edit for Canvas Apps
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 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
