Are you as impatient as I am and gets annoyed when you create or reset a Dataverse environment in the admin portal and can't see it in the maker portal? Well with a couple of clicks I can show you how you go to open your environment and start building solutions in no time. The... Continue Reading →
Build Deployable Power Automate Flows for Dynamics Customer Voice with Environment Variables
Dynamics Customer Voice is the survey tool that stores all its data in Dataverse. Dataverse have quite the process to maintain a healthy ALM and deployment process, but if you plan to include Customer Voice in your solution it can complicate things. This is how I solved this challenge, with help and inspiration from my... Continue Reading →
A Double Expand Query and Some Missing Dynamic Content in Power Automate
Just earlier this week I had to do a double expand (getting data from a table that are two relationships away) and realized that when I did that, I didn't get any dynamic content. Bleh. Well. Not too difficult to solve with an expression, continue to read to find out how. An example scenario So... Continue Reading →
Help! I Need a Code Component!
Have you browsed the PCF Gallery and thought: WOW, this is exactly what I need! Do you know how to actually incorporate an open source PCF/Code Component in your solution and maintain high quality? These are some of the things you need to consider. What is a Code Component/PCF? So let's start with some background.... Continue Reading →
How to create in-app Notifications with Navigation in Model-driven Apps with Power Automate
Isn't that title a mouthful? The thing is when you read the microsoft documentation on this feature it's mostly code instructions apart from how to create a really basic notifications. But what if I don't want to use JavaScript and still want those fancy pancy navigation links in my notifications? Here is how. Background As... Continue Reading →
Get EntitySetName with XrmToolBox
You know that annoying error you get when trying to populate a lookup field in Power Automate with the Current Environment connector? And you might have found blog posts that the solution is to set the EntitySetName before the dynamic data? Good so far - but how the hell do you find the EntitySetName? Let... Continue Reading →
Get App ID with List Records in Power Automate
The new UCI and the ability to have several model driven apps changed the playground a lot for us ol' dynamics folks. It brought shiny new capabilities and flexibility but it also brought a tiny bit of more complexity to the game. Suddenly when you want to send an e-mail with a record URL you... Continue Reading →
How to Avoid the “Get Record” Action to Retrieve Related Data in Power Automate
In a previous blog post I wrote about how to use FetchXML to List Records from CDS in Power Automate. But what if a column you defined in your FetchXML doesn't show up in the Dynamic content because it is a column from a related record? Defining the FetchXML Let's start with using the most... Continue Reading →
No-Code Hack – Use Calculated Fields for Event Age Validation
This past weekend I was at Dynamics Power Saturday in Amsterdam an delivered a session I call "No-Code Hacks". One of my hacks was to show how you can solve a requirement for age limit at event by only using customization, a requirement usually solved with JavaScript. What is a Hack? To start with I... Continue Reading →
Assign User Security Roles in a CDS Model Driven App
Being able to build model-driven apps on the Power Platform with out actually having it base it on a Dynamics CE first party app opens up a world of possibilities, but also a few new experiences for a former Dynamics-gal like myself. For instance when I was going to assign my Users their Security Roles... Continue Reading →
Sara Lagerquist 