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Dataverse | New Text Formats | json, richtext

September 16, 2021 Leave a comment

Text in Dataverse is a data type that can store a max of 4000 characters. Text has multiple formats that instruct the UI to treat it differently.

As an example, Email is a text format tells the client to treat the contents of the field as an email. It can display the data as a link that, when clicked, launches your default email client and inserts the address in the To: field.

There are 2 new formats, json and richtext have been introduced.

Json 

  • json format will store text strings in a json format.
  • This format will not perform any validations on the correctness of the json. It simply allows you to store, view, and retrieve the content with json markup.
  • This is currently limited for use on non-SQL tables (like Data Lake).

Richtext 

  • richtext format will allow the use of markup tags to format your text when viewed in a compatible control.
  • By setting this value you can enable richtext for any other text or multiline text column.
  • A control is coming soon in the Canvas and Model Driven space that will be used whenever a column indicates it is richtext.

Please refer this article for more details.

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Azure DevOps (ADO) | Pipeline failure | Failed to connect to Dataverse

September 16, 2021 Leave a comment

One of my ADO pipelines ‘Power Platform Publish Customizations’ task failed with “Failed to connect to Dataverse” error.

Reason:

  • ‘Power Platform Publish Customizations’ task’s ‘Authentication type’ was selected as ‘Username/password’ which does not have MFA support.
  • MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) was enabled on the Environment, which I was trying to connect from the Pipeline.
  • Since the ‘Power Platform Publish Customizations’ task’s ‘Authentication type’ was selected as ‘Username/password’ which does not support MFA, pipeline could not connect to the Dataverse environment.

Fix:

  • Create an ‘Application User’ by completing App Registration in Azure Active Directory and grant a Security Role.
  • In the ADO pipeline’s ‘Power Platform Publish Customizations’ task, select ‘Authentication type’ as ‘Service Principal’.
  • Make sure the ‘Service Connection’ configured properly with Azure App Registration details (i.e., Tenant ID, Application ID and Client Secret).
    • My connection name is ‘SP_ExpAugust21’ and details are as follows.
  • Save and run the pipeline and it should work now.

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