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Creating Reports in Dynamics 365 Dataverse

You can create a report in Dataverse Power Apps inside a solution. Follow below steps to create a Report for Power Apps. Step:1 – Create Report Create a Power Apps Solution and choose New Report. This will open the report designer where you can choose for which table the report to be designed and what…
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Status and Status Reason fields in Dataverse Power Apps and Dynamics 365 and its usage

To understand more about status fields, why status and status reason both fields are there in dataverse and power apps watch the below video. hope this helps.

Retain Audit logs in 30 days or configure as per business need in Dataverse

You can enable auditing to track data changes. But when you keep the auditing enabled, it will keep the log table increasing with audit logs which will take the database size. So to cleanup audit data every 30 days follow below step. Navigate to https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/home and select correct environment from environment list. Click Settings and…
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Event Pipeline execution model in Dataverse plugins – pre-validation, pre-operation, core-operation, post-operation

Learn about Event Pipeline execution model in Dataverse plugins – pre-validation, pre-operation, core-operation, post-operation. Hope this helps.

Barcode scanner app using canvas app power apps and capture customer signature using pen component

For every delivery business, you must need to capture the delivery information and its status. When a delivery boy delivers the product, the delivery need to scan the barcode of the physical product and capture signature of the customer so that the data will be saved in Dataverse. if you want to know how to…
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Understanding Managed Properties in Power Apps Solution Components

Managed properties is introduced to allow component customizations inside a managed solution. By default all components are disabled for customizing in a managed solution. But for some reason if you want to allow customization for components inside a managed solution then you can follow below steps. Note that only inside a unmanaged solution you can…
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Change the rollup field update frequency in Dataverse or Dynamics 365

By default, each attribute is updated hourly. When a rollup attribute is created or updated a Mass Calculated Rollup Fields job is scheduled to run in 12 hours But you can change it. Follow below steps to change the frequency. Business Scenario: We have a Total Loan Amount Rollup field in customer table and we want…
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Generate QR Code/ Bar Code using Power Automate with Dataverse

You can generate QR codes/ Bar codes and store the QR code/ Bar code against a Dataverse record as an image file. Follow the below steps to achieve this business needs. Step 1 : Prepare Dataverse Table with Columns Open Power Apps and Navigate to Solutions and choose your solution with correct environment. Add respective…
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Show hide sitemap sub-area in model driven power apps as per table privilege

In model driven power apps, a sub-area can point to a table, web resource, custom page, URL link and dashboard. You can hide sub-areas as per the table privilege or miscellaneous privilege. here I explained about hiding sub area using table privilege. Watch the video to know more.

Append v/s Append To in Dynamics CRM/ Dynamics 365 CE/ Dataverse

Append and Append To privileges are very confusing for all. This article will explain you what is the difference between them. Append and Append To generally deals with the entities that are having a one-to-many (1:N) (Parent : Child) relationship or many-to-one (N:1) (Child: Parent) relationship. Basically appending means when you select a lookup value…
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Fallback Form in Power Apps or Dynamics 365 Model driven apps/ Dataverse

Forms are excellent way to communicate with data in Microsoft Dataverse or Power Apps. We can enable security roles for Table Forms so that user with a specific security role can only access to the form. Now the question is what about the user having a different security role and none of the Entity form…
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Manage Search index for Dataverse Search in Power Apps

Dataverse Search is now the global search for all power apps. If you have not enabled enable it now. Follow my blog here to know how to enable Dataverse search. After it is enabled we can manage search index for Dataverse search. Open your Power Apps Solution and Click on Overview section here you can…
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Configure field dependency in Power Apps Solutions for JavaScript Web Resources

Working with solution is not new for us. While working with solutions we have to follow best practices by managing component dependencies to avoid unknowing breaking of components. lets us take an example. You are trying to validate a field using JavaScript and you need to have the field on the form. But somehow as…
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Enable Advanced lookup in Power Apps in Dynamics 365/ Dataverse

Advanced lookup gives a better way to search records. So let us see how we can enable this behavior of lookup in power apps. Login to Office.com and click on Power Apps icon. Choose correct environment. Click on Gear icon and choose Admin Center or directly open https://admin.powerplatform.com. Choose correct environment and click settings. Choose…
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How to enable Dataverse Search in Power Apps

Now the modern search is Dataverse search. So how can we enable it lets see here. Login to https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/. and select the environment and click on b. Choose Product Feature and select Dataverse Search navigate to Search panel and Enable it and Save it. Now open any model driven app and you will see Dataverse…
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Solution Overview gives all information about a solution in power apps

In modern power apps solution design there are many features added. One of this is solution overview. This gives information about the solution in details. Login Office.com and Click on Power Apps. Select correct environment and choose Solutions from sitemap. click on a solution. Make sure the solution preview in ON. Now click on your…
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Check the solution history in Dynamics 365 or Dataverse

Now you can see the history of solution imports, Errors, Publisher info, Start time, End Time and Error information about all solutions in your environment. Go to Office.com and login using your credential. Click on Power Apps icon and choose solutions. In the solutions window click on More option and choose See history. Now you…
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Developer Resource has a new place in power apps

Previously the Developer resources option was available in Advanced Setting option of Dynamics 365 but now its available in Power Apps home page making a better navigations. Check the screenshot below: Login Office.com and click on Power Apps link. It will open Power Apps and click on Gear icon to open options. Now click on…
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How to load side panels on a form in model driven apps in power apps

Side panels gives a better user experience to display relevant records on a table form. You classic way of loading panel is to use loadpanel method but now there is a better way to load multiple side panels with scripts. see below how we can load multiple panes. To load a side panel to display…
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[Super useful] Enable Pop-up dialog feature for lookup fields on form to edit or create the record associated with it in Dataverse/ dynamics 365

If you want to use pop-up control to create/edit the record associated with the lookup for a form then follow the below steps to enable it. Open Office.com and navigate to the form of table which contains the lookup. click on the lookup control on the form in form design mode and enable two properties.…
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Disable most recently used items in lookup controls in Dataverse/ Dynamics 365

When we work with table records using table forms sometimes lookup controls display most recently used items when we click the lookup. But now there is a way to disable it. Login to Office.com and navigate to table and open the specific form where the lookup exist. click on the lookup and go to properties…
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Dataflow Configuration in Dataverse – in details

Dataflow gives us a flexibility to pull data from an external data source and push it in Dataverse without any custom code. The dataflow will use connectors to pull data and push data. Follow the steps below to work with Dataflow. Step:1 – Login Office.com and navigate to Dataflow Login office.com using your credential and…
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How to use formula in Business Rules for Automations in Dataverse/ Dynamics 365

Business Rules is a game changer and we all know it. With out writing JavaScript and C# code plugins we just just configure to automate/validate many business logic using Business Rules. In this post I will tell you how you can leverage Business Rules using formula. Business Requirement: Calculate hourly rate of course by using…
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Integrate Customer Voice with Dataverse/Dynamics 365 using Power Automate

Customer Voice is a robust enterprise application to capture customer and employee feedbacks directly from enterprise surveys using ready-made templates and workflows. Now we can leverage the survey sending process from Dataverse or Dynamics 365 using Power Automate ensuring no-code concept. So let us start how we can achieve this. STEP-1 : Configure Customer Voice…
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How to clear lookup field in Dataverse/ Dynamics 365 using canvas app

Here we will see how we can make lookup field blank using Canvas App. I have taken a gallery to display Contacts and displaying the First name, last name and Account. here I have taken a button in every row and trying to make the Account field blank for the selected row from the gallery.…
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[Step-by-Step] Custom API in Microsoft Dataverse/Dynamics 365 Configuration and Demo with Plugin

In this post I will explain how you can configure Custom API Request, Custom API Request Parameters and Custom API Response Parameter. DataVerse supports creating custom API so that external applications call the API to perform some custom action. We can also call Plugins from the Custom API. In this post I will show you…
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