When deploying solutions using Power Platform Pipelines, I ran into a frustrating ‘ImportAsHolding’ error ☠️—triggered by dependencies between deleted flows.
Adventures with Power Platform: Deployment Struggles
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Author: mattruma
Adventures with Power Platform: Agilicious
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Agilicious is an app designed for a small team managing over 100 clients. It allows users to share completed tasks, current work, and assistance needed, with notifications sent to Teams or Outlook. The app includes components for managing reports, filters, and notifications.
Adventures with Model-Driven Apps: Hiding Custom Button for a New Record
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I created a Model-Driven App where I customized the command bar for the main form and added a custom button. I want the custom button to only be visible for existing Dataverse records. Or in other words, when the user clicks New, I want the button to be hidden. 🫥 Now, I’ve done this a…
Adventures with Canvas Apps: Dynamic-like Survey Engine
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I recently had an ask to build a Canvas App for entering Surveys. Surveys consisted of one or more Forms. The Forms are assigned to a Survey and then filled out in a specified order. I decide on Dataverse as data store, but could really be anything, SQL Server, and dare I say, SharePoint. Note,…
Adventures with Power Pages: Working with Parent and Child Dataverse Tables
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I wanted to create a Power Pages site to manage invoices. I created three Dataverse tables for Product, Invoice and Invoice Item. ⚒️ I created the Power Pages site, with several pages. I added my Lists and Basic Forms to the appropriate pages and added Table permissions. 🔒 I created an Invoice form that displays…
Adventures with Power Platform: My First Deployment with GitHub Actions
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I have deployed Power Platform solutions with the in-product Power Platform Pipelines, now I wanted to try it with GitHub Actions. I created a Solution called ALM 2 Solution, real sophisticated name. 😄 My Solution includes these components: The Flow ALM 2 Environment Variable List (Power Apps) uses the Connection Reference ALM 2 Dataverse Connection…
Adventures with Power Platform: You Shall Not Pass!
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I wanted to discourage makers from creating applications in the default Power Platform environment. Unfortunately, I can’t prevent them from doing so in an easy to set up way. Hmm. 🤔 After giving this some further thought 💡, maybe I can respond to a change in a Dataverse table, that’s where the Canvas Apps are…
Adventures with Power Platform: Sample Timesheet Canvas App
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I wanted to create a Canvas App that took a list of Time Transactions and showed them in a matrix format by Task and Duration. I also wanted to edit the data. ✏️ If you want to see it in action in your Environment, download it at https://mattruma.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/TimesheetSolution_1_0_0_0.zip. Let’s breakdown what I have in my…
Adventures with Power Platform: Convert Managed Solution to Unmanaged Solution
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Not sure if this ever happened to you, but it happened to me! I accidentally reset my Development Environment, which is a Sandbox Environment, and lost one of my Unmanaged Solutions, one that I really couldn’t afford to lose. Simple oversight on my part, but what could I do? Thankfully, I still had a copy…
Adventures with Dataverse: Fun with Currency and Decimal Data Types
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I had a question around what happens to the value of a Dataverse field of type Currency or Decimal when I changed the decimal precision. The question❓, what happens to the underlying values stored in the Dataverse field when the decimal precision is changed? Is it automatically truncated? 🤔 Or is the original value retained…