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Continue reading →: Cloud flow | Dataverse Connector | Useful formulas and Syntaxes
In this article, I am going to collate useful Syntaxes and Formulas frequently used in Cloud Flows with Dataverse connector. Format DateTime: When working with date and time values in flow, they may look like: 2019-12-06T22:47:23.0798367Z or 2009-06-15T13:45:30Z You may format these values to look like: 6/15/2009 1:45 PM or…
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Continue reading →: Dataverse | New Text Formats | json, richtext
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…
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Continue reading →: Azure DevOps (ADO) | Pipeline failure | Failed to connect to Dataverse
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…
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Continue reading →: Azure DevOps (ADO) | Pipeline failure | Could not get the latest source version
I’ve created a new ADO project and configured a Pipeline to export Power Apps solution. While running the Pipeline it failed in immediately with following exception. The pipeline is not valid. Could not get the latest source version for repository… Reason: Under the ‘Get sources’ step of the Pipeline, ‘Default…
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Continue reading →: Dataverse Web API | JScript | EDM.Date conversion issue
While triggering ‘Create’ Action from jScript using the Web API we were getting following Edm.date conversion exception: An error occurred while validating input parameters: Microsoft.OData.ODataException: Cannot convert the literal ‘2021-09-22T18:30:00’ to the expected type ‘Edm.Date’. —> System.FormatException: String ‘2021-09-22T18:30:00’ was not recognized as a valid Edm.Date. Reason: In the Create…
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Continue reading →: [Quick Tip] Short cut to open ‘Command Prompt’ pointing to a folder
In this article, lets learn a shortcut to open Command Prompt pointing to a folder from a Windows OS machine. Regular Approach: To open a folder from a different drive than C, we use the following approach to point to the folder. Above example, I am pointing the Command Prompt…
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Continue reading →: Power Platform Tools | Developer Toolkit for Visual Studio 2019
Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio supports the rapid creation, debugging, and deployment of plug-ins. You may note that Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio is similar in appearance and function to the Developer Toolkit for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013. While Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio is similar in…
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Continue reading →: Tip | Model Driven Apps | Client API | setSharedVariable and getSharedVariable
As we know Client-side scripting using JavaScript is one of the ways to apply custom business process logic for displaying data on a form in a model-driven app, In this article lets understand how to pass variables between event handlers (i.e., Different jScript functions registered as event handlers). Lets understand…
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Continue reading →: Code Snippet | JScript | Capture BPF Stage Parameters
Below is code snippet to capture the BPF stage parameters up on the ‘Stage’ change using jscript. Save this script as web resource and register both the ‘onload’ and ‘onStageChane’ functions on form’s onload event. Below is the example of script on Opportunity form. 🙂
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