Despite this blog post’s catchy title there is no magic upgrade button to move Microsoft Lists to Dataverse for Teams. There may be in the future but until then migration translates to rebuild. A list rebuild to Dataverse will most likely be caused by a design requirement that Lists is not suited to, like setting up complex table… READ MORE
Power Pages provides new maker experiences to the established foundation of Power Apps portals to build powerful, business websites. Whether you have worked with portals in the past or are a brand new website maker, this session will have something for you. Learn how to quickly provision a new Power Pages site, match it to your corporate branding and quickly surface data from Microsoft Dataverse securely. Do all of this without leaving the new design studio interface!
Nick Doleman from Microsoft, Canada, talks about a fascinating array of topics in this webinar from Power Platform Week! First, he talks about Power Pages and shows you what Power Pages is by demoing how to build a simple portal app. This involves the provision of the site, taking a look at some of the tools required, and designing, building, and styling web pages. It also involves talking about how that page can interact with data, security in power pages, and lastly, how to allow users to view their data.
The Power Apps team have had a long-standing quality tool called the Solution Checker. This was built into the Dataverse solution management interface, ALM Power Platform Build Tools and even a PowerShell version. The challenge with the Solution Checker has always been that by the time you find out about the issues, it’s often too late and the solution has… READ MORE
When you’re building Power Apps within a Microsoft Teams based Dataverse environment, the most common target group of app users is obviously people who belong to that team. This is very logical when the purpose of the app is to collaborate as a team on something that might have otherwise been an Excel sheet shared… READ MORE
This post will explain how you can set the icon for a Microsoft Dataverse custom table (entity icon) in the Power Apps maker portal. When the custom tables are created for Dynamics 365 and model-driven app projects, updating the icon of the table is important because it is automatically assigned a puzzle piece 🧩 icon… READ MORE
When I published this blog post about Power Automate Deployment (manual), the great – Bill Blancett gave suggestions regarding the solution’s import setting file that we can use if we want to import the solution using CI/CD or using Power Platform Tools CLI (you need to make sure you install this on your machine): TL/DR from… READ MORE
With the List Rows action of Microsoft Dataverse, we can use FetchXML to query the data. For such queries, all we need is to populate the Table name and Fetch Xml Query parameters. But what if we only have the FetchXML? What if we want to query dynamically from different tables based on the FetchXML? One of the use cases would be… READ MORE
Delegation of queries in Canvas Apps/Custom Pages has long been a troublesome topic and we are always looking out for the triangle of doom, or the double blue underline of eternal stench (well, it is Halloween soon!) I try to keep a close eye on the connector delegation support table in the official documentation for any changes… READ MORE
Why would you use Dataverse, if SharePoint lists gives you the option to avoid premium licences? Dataverse or SharePoint lists? Dataverse or SharePoint lists, that is the question. There are a few things we have to consider when we try to answer the question. Data Volume Security Delegation Licence Cost Simplicity Development time Maintainability Connectors/APIs… READ MORE
Hey everyone, recently we had the problem of integrating (mass) data into a PowerApp. The goal was to to display, and more importantly, search for specific entries in a Dataverse table containing ~5.000 entries. Due to the limitation of only receiving very limited (default 100, up to 2.000) entries when using the default Dataverse Connector,
