I was recently inspired by Power Apps Reorder Gallery Items – April Dunnam – SharePoint Siren, an “oldie but goodie” article by April Dunnam. I decided to build my own implementation. I wanted my version to not have a strong dependency on if there was an n-1 or n+1 item in the list, so I…
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Adventures with Power Platform: How to Use the API to Remove a Dependency
In a recent solution I had modified the command bar for one of my forms, which creates a Component Library. I ended up not needing the modifications, and deleted the Component Library, only to find out there was still a dependency lurking about. I tried everything to figure out what it was and how to…
Adventures with Power Apps: Troubleshooting Component Updates
I am playing around with Solution Layering and Solution Segmentation in the Power Platform. Let me set the stage. I have an environment called AdventureWorks – Core. In this environment, I have the following solutions: I have another environment called AdventureWorks – Dev. In this environment, I have imported the previous solutions, as managed, excepted…
Adventures with Dataverse: Teams and Security Roles
I have a sample application that consists of two tables, Forms and Form Types and a Model-Driven Application called Forms Model App. Currently I have three Form Types: When creating a Form you have to assign a Form Type. I had a new requirement come up. I wanted to allow certain people to have access…
Adventures with Dataverse: Playing with Security Roles
In a previous post, Adventures with Dataverse: Migrating Microsoft SQL Server Tables to Dataverse Tables – Matt Ruma, I walked through migrating a SQL Database to Microsoft Dataverse. In this post, I want to look at adding security roles to control access to the Dataverse entities. The first security role I will create is for…
Adventures with Dataverse: Migrating Microsoft SQL Server Tables to Dataverse Tables
From time to time, I want to migrate data from Microsoft SQL Server to Microsoft Dataverse. Dataverse offers a lot of capabilities for working with entities within the Power Platform. Sure, I could use virtual tables, but those comes with a lot of limitations. I also wanted to create a pattern for Microsoft SQL Server…
Adventures with Power Apps: Model-Driven Apps and Custom Pages
I’ll admit it, I am a fan of Model-Driven Apps. ❤️ They are a great way to accelerate the development of applications that make user of Dataverse. Sometimes I may create a Canvas App or two or three that use my Dataverse entities, but somewhere, I always have a Model-Driven App, even if it’s just…
Adventures with Power Apps: Use Invoker’s Connection? What?
I had a Power Automate flow that was triggered whenever a record was added to a Dataverse table, which would add a new record to another Dataverse table. Pretty straight forward. Or in other words, whenever a record was added to Dataverse Sample 2 – Parent Items, I wanted to add a row to Dataverse…
Adventures with Power Apps: My Quick Create Form Is Not Working! Help!
I was struggling with getting my Quick Create Form working in my Model-Driven App. From all the documentation I looked at, I thought I had things configured correctly. Sadly, I had missed a step. Thank you Owen_Wetherow, I am indebted to you for helping me to fix this. The answer is found at Solved: Quick…
Adventures with Power Apps: Find Email Addresses in Rich Text Editor
Recently I was asked to provide an example for how to extract email addresses from a RichTextEditor component in a Canvas App. The extraction would be two fold: The setup of the Canvas App consisted of the following components. It was pretty easy to setup, where I started to run into challenges was then I…