I accidentally – or purposely, for the sake of having something to figure out – added the Status field for a Car entity to Car Main Form form. Whoops! 🤦♂️ I don’t really need it on the form as Activate and Deactivate buttons will handle setting the Status for me. I clicked on the Status…
Wow! That title was a mouthful! 😊 Let me set the stage. I have the following Dataverse tables: I want to create a Canvas App for managing records in the Many To Many A Item table, that included managing the Many To Many C Item records. I set the Items property of the Gallery to…
I wanted to create an app that allows owners of a Microsoft Entra ID group to manage users. To get a list of all the groups a user owns I tried the Office 365 Groups Connector and the List Owned Groups V2 method. That seemed to only want to return a list of M365 Groups….
Let me set the stage. I have two Connections in my environment that point to the same database server and database, the first one named SQL Server 1 (XXX) and the second one named SQL Server 2 (XXX), where XXX is the name of the database. Both use an implicit connection using SQL Authentication, see…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
