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    Power Apps | Business Rule | Set Field Value vs Set Default Value

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    January 19, 2022

    While configuring Business Rules you might have noticed ‘Set Field Value’ and ‘Set Default Value’ Actions. Though the ‘Set Field Value’ and ‘Set Default Value’ Actions look identical, there are following subtle differences. Set Default Value: ‘Set Default Value’ only triggers on ‘Create’ event and does not trigger on ‘Update’.…

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    Dataverse | Traditional Quick Find vs Enhanced Quick Find (2020 Wave 1 Update)

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    January 10, 2022

    I got a following question from a blog follower who recently started working on Dataverse on ‘Quick Find Search’. Why the ‘Quick Find’ view not fetching the data though there are matched records? So this article is for those who recently started working on Dataverse to differentiate Traditional vs Enhanced…

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    C# | Telesign | Send SMS | Couldn’t load type Telesign.MessagingClient

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    January 8, 2022

    Telesign is a Communications Platform as a Service company. We can Send and receive text messages effortlessly with TeleSign’s global text message API. Other day I’ve subscribed to Telesign trial and was trying to send SMS from my C# console application. As a first step I’ve installed ‘Telesign’ NuGet package…

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    Dataverse | Plugins | ILMerge Alternative | Shared Project

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    January 7, 2022

    Role of ILMerge in Plugin Development: If you are familiar with writing Plugins in Dataverse, chances are that you would have used ILMerge to merge the Assemblies. In a typical Dynamics Plug-in development, we will have following .Net Class Library Projects. Plugins.csproj Plugins.Helper.csproj When you compile above projects, you get…

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    Power BI | Dataverse | Fixing the connection reference of a report

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    December 31, 2021

    For the unversed, Using ‘Power BI embedded’ we can embed a Power BI report as Dashboard in Model Driven App. This Dashboard can be added to a Solution and can be transported to other Environments. However there will be a challenge with report’s Connection reference. When the Dashboard moved to…

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    Power Apps | On-premises data gateway | High-availability Clusters

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    December 27, 2021

    In one of my previous articles, I detailed the steps to connect to an on-premise SQL server from a Canvas App. High availability: Refers to a set of technologies that minimize IT disruptions by providing business continuity of IT services through redundant, fault-tolerant, or failover-protected components inside the same data center. By…

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    Model Driven App | Power BI | Visualize data

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    December 22, 2021

    There’s a new way to visualize your model-driven Power Apps and Dynamics 365 data stored within Dataverse. With a single click, Power BI will automatically generate a set of visuals for you to explore and find insights within your data. Prerequisites: Enable Model Driven App Level Setting: This feature is…

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    Dataverse | Modernize business units (Public Preview)

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    November 12, 2021

    With this preview feature, Users are no longer restricted to accessing/managing data in their own business unit. Users can now access and own records across business units. Security roles from different business units can be assigned to the users regardless of the business unit the users belong to. This feature…

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    Dynamics CRM | Microsoft Power Apps | Legacy OData v2.0 Service removal date

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    November 12, 2021

    OData v2.0 endpoint: The Organization Data Service (Also known as the OData endpoint or the REST endpoint when it was released, the Organization Data Service offers limited capabilities to only create, retrieve, update, or delete table data) is an OData v2.0 endpoint introduced with Dynamics CRM 2011. The Organization Data Service was deprecated with…

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    Power Apps portals | Query data using portals Web API (Public preview)

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    November 12, 2021

    Portals Web API: The Portals Web API enables building a richer user experience inside Power Apps portals pages. We can use the Web API to perform create, update, and delete operations across all Dataverse tables from the portal pages. For example, you can create a new account, update a contact,…

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