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    Canvas App | Get Environment ID without the need of cloud flow

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    July 12, 2023

    In one of my previous articles I explained the steps to fetch the Environment ID in Power Automate flows. In this article, lets see how to leverage Canvas Apps table data source, to fetch the Environment ID in Canvas App. What is Environment Id Steps to fetch the Environment ID…

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  • PowerApps

    Command Bar | Power Fx | Clone a record along with child records

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    July 4, 2023

    In one of the previous articles, I’ve explained how to perform a simple record level clone using Power Fx formulas. In this article, let’s delve deeper and explore the process of cloning a record along with its child records. Scenario: I’ve a Model Driven App with 3 Dataverse tables. Now…

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  • Dataverse

    Dataverse solution import failure| Invalid format of KeyVault secret reference found

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    June 30, 2023

    Please refer my previous article on steps to configure and consume the Environment Variable of type Secret. I had encountered an issue while importing a solution that had an Environment Variable of type Secret, using pac cli. Reason and Fix: 🙂

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  • Canvas Apps

    Canvas App | Utilizing Timer control to Display Timed Popups

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    June 29, 2023

    In one of my previous articles, I’ve explained the steps to show popups. In this article, lets see how to auto close popups after certain duration using Timer control. Scenario: Enter the desired duration to display the popup, then click ‘Go’ to activate the popup, which will automatically disappear after…

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  • PowerApps

    Canvas App | Dataverse| Verify the logged in user ‘s direct roles and team membership roles

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    June 28, 2023

    In one of my previous articles, I provided the Power Fx formula, to Check if the logged in User has a specific set of security roles. However, the Power Fx formula mentioned in the article only fetches and matches the user’s direct security roles, and does not include the team’s security…

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  • Power Automate

    [Beginners] Power Automate | Dataverse | Read choice column labels

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    June 26, 2023

    In this article let me show you how you can fetch the labels of Choice/Choices columns of a Dataverse tabels. Scenario: I’ve a following ‘Student’ table with a Choice (i.e., City) and a Choices (i.e., Hobbies) columns. By default, cloud flow Dataverse actions fetches the ‘Value’ of Choice columns. Lets…

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  • Canvas Apps

    Canvas App | Dataverse| Check if the logged in User has specific set of security role(s)

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    June 22, 2023

    In this article, lets see how to determine whether the logged in user has a specific set of security roles. Following is the formula we will be using to fulfill the requirement. Steps to use the formula: 🙂

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  • PowerApps

    Power Fx | DataSourceInfo function

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    June 22, 2023

    Assume that you are building a Canvas app using ‘Accounts’ table of Dataverse datasource and you need to show a button only if the logged in user has ‘Delete’ permission on ‘Accounts’ table. We can easily fulfill above requirement using DataSourceInfo function. DataSourceInfo function provides information about a particular column…

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  • DevOps

    Power Platform Build Tools for Azure DevOps | LIB_EndpointAuthNotExist error

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    June 8, 2023

    We have a “Power Platform Set Connection Variables” task of Power Platform Build Tools added to our Azure DevOps Pipeline. Other day, pipeline failed with error “LIB_EndpointAuthNotExist”. Reason & Fix: 🙂

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    Power Apps | ‘Host’ object

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    May 16, 2023

    Assume that you are a Power Apps maker and you have built an app and shared it with users. A few users have reported issues, and you would like to know the following from the users to troubleshoot: So what’s the best way to get those details. The solutions is…

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