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    Power Platform | Environment Variables | Always Visible and Editable during Solution Import and Pipeline Deployments

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    December 14, 2023

    In case you imported a Dataverse solution in the past, you might have observed that, during the solution import, the Environment Variable doesn’t appear in the configuration options if it already has a ‘Default Value’ set. This created some confusion and ambiguity on how environment variables were obtaining their values…

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    Customer ‘Lockbox’ policy in Power Platform and Dynamics 365

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    December 13, 2023

    Were you aware that administrators can create lockbox policies in the Power Platform admin center, enabling the restriction of data access for Microsoft support engineers? What’s Lockbox and how it protects the data: Consider that your organization’s Power Platform or Dynamics 365 application is live. Let’s explore the following use…

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    Power Automate | Approvals kit

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    December 12, 2023

    “Approvals kit” – a kit from Power CAT that will accelerate building your approvals faster than ever – available as a public preview. Approvals kit is a no-code ready-made kit built on top of Power Platform components that allows your organization to configure sophisticated approvals such as conditional branching, delegation, admin overrides…

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  • Dataverse

    Dataverse | Edit table data in Excel and publish it back to Dataverse

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    December 6, 2023

    In my previous article (Use Dataflows to import data from Excel file to Dataverse) I explained the steps to load data from an Excel sheet to Dataverse using the Dataflows. This approach provides the flexibility to transform the data before loading it into Dataverse, along with other rich features of…

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    [Step by Step] Use Dataflows to import data from Excel file to Dataverse | Map lookups

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    November 29, 2023

    In this article, let’s learn how to load data from an Excel sheet into multiple Dataverse tables using Dataflows. Lets first understand what dataflows are. What are dataflows? Now that we know the basics, let’s learn about dataflows using the following scenario. Scenario: Let’s begin the execution of scenarios. Create…

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    [Quick Tip] Canvas App | Gallery Control | Clear default record selection

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    November 29, 2023

    By default, the first record in the Gallery control is selected. In the example below, ‘Microsoft’ is the first record and is selected by default.. Clear record selection: To prevent any record from being selected by default, use the ‘Default‘ property of the Gallery control and set it to {}.…

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  • Misc

    Pac cli | Update Environment settings

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    November 15, 2023

    Imagine you need to enable the ‘Power Apps component framework for canvas apps‘ setting in your Power Platform environment. The process is straightforward: connect to the Power Platform Admin Center and go to environment settings and enable it as shown below. Alternatively, you can use the following code block to…

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    [Step by Step] Power Apps | Using ‘Tabs or tab list’ modern control

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    November 14, 2023

    In this article, I will explain how to use Tabs or tab list modern control by building a simple Canvas App. Before we begin, let’s first understand what Modern controls are in canvas apps. Modern controls in Canvas Apps: Enable modern controls and themes for your app: At the time…

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  • Power BI

    Power BI | ‘Datasets’ renamed to ‘Semantic models’

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    November 13, 2023

    Power BI datasets represent enterprise-grade semantic models providing the authoritative source of truth for reports in the largest organizations, promoting consistent, data-driven decisions. The announcement of Microsoft Fabric earlier this year marks the dawn of a new era for the product. In the age of Fabric, the term “dataset” is too generic, and doesn’t…

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  • DevOps

    git checkout | fatal: ‘origin/main’ is not a commit and a branch ‘main’ cannot be created from it

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    November 7, 2023

    We have an Azure DevOps pipeline, and in one of the steps (see below), we trigger the git checkout command. We began encountering the following fatal error. Reason and Fix: 🙂

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