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Continue reading →: Power Apps Developer Plan
In May 2021, Power Apps Community Plan has been extended to meet the needs of developers and rebranded as the Power Apps Developer Plan. What is a Developer Plan: Power Apps Developer Plan gives us a free development environment to build and test with Power Apps, Power Automate, and Microsoft Dataverse.…
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Continue reading →: Canvas App | Display and Download large data sets of Images from Azure Blob Container with no delegation issues
In one of my previous articles, I detailed the steps to embed a Canvas app with upload image to Azure Blob feature. In this article lets see, how to work with large data sets and achieve following: Displaying blob images in Gallery. Ability to Download the image. Pre-requisites: Azure Storage…
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Continue reading →: Canvas App Import Failure | CanvasAppEnvironmentMismatch error
We configured a new Dynamics Instance copied from another Instance using ‘Customizations and schema only’ option. While importing a solution with a Canvas App, the solution import failed with CanvasAppEnvironmentMismatch error CanvasApp import: FAILURE: Code: CanvasAppEnvironmentMismatch Message: The specified app ‘xxx-xx-xxxx-xx’ belongs to the environment ‘xxx-xx-xxxx-xx’ and not ‘xxx-xx-xxxx-xx’ which…
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Continue reading →: [Step by Step] Debug Model Driven and Canvas Apps using ‘Monitor’ tool
Monitor tool overview Using Monitor tool, Makers of canvas apps can view events while building a new app or to monitor published apps. Makers of model-driven apps can monitor page navigation, command executions, form-related issues, and other major actions. Using Monitor with Model Driven App Lets see step by step to…
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Continue reading →: Canvas App | Dataverse | Distribute columns to multiple forms and Patch
When working with large tables in Canvas App’s Phone layout Forms, it would be counterintuitive to place all the fields in a single form. In below screen, user has to scroll a lot to fill all the details. In this article, lets see how we can simplify above screen by…
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Continue reading →: [Step by Step] Canvas App | Dataverse | Filter, Patch, For All, Lookup
In this article, lets understand the Filter, Patch, For All and more functions and formulas using following ‘Car and Customer’ scenario. I will be using Dataverse formerly CDS as Data Source. Create a ‘Manufacturer’ table to store Car manufactures. Use OOB ‘Contact’ table to store Customers. Create a ‘Cars’ table…
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Continue reading →: Power Apps | Microsoft Dataverse
Microsoft Dataverse Common Data Service (CDS), the sophisticated and secure backbone that powers Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, has been renamed to Microsoft Dataverse Some terminology in Microsoft Dataverse has been updated. For example, entity is now ‘Table’ and field is now ‘Column’. Learn more. Microsoft Dataverse for Teams Microsoft Dataverse…
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Continue reading →: Canvas Apps | Useful formulas and functions
In this article, I am collating the useful formulas which are frequently used in Canvas Apps. For all functions, I am going to use a Textbox control ‘txtInput’ as reference. Match Validates User inputs based on predefined or custom patterns. For example, you can confirm whether the user has entered…
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Continue reading →: [Code Snippet] Set Business process flow (BPF) stage using C#
Assume you have a BPF with 3 Stages on an Entity ‘Employer’. When you create a new ‘Employer’ record, by default ‘Stage-1’ gets set. What if you have to create the ‘Employer’ record with a different stage. Lets see how to create a record and set the desired BPF stage…


