This is my first attempt at coming up with a rubric to guide a team on whether an application should be created using the Power Platform or a more traditional development technologies, such as React, Angular, C#, JavaScript, etc. The first place I start is with the audience of the application or applications. Is the…
Most of my life I have been a traditional developer, primarily working with C#. C# has a neat function called String.Join. This function allows the caller to pass in an array of values and a separator character and then returns those results has a concatenated string with each array value separated with the separator character….
I recently created a Canvas App that uses the SQL Server Connector. I went back and forth with deploying the Solution, which contained the Canvas App and the Connection Reference, from my DEV environment to my TEST environment. I made sure that my Canvas App used my Connection Reference, by removing the SQL Data connection…
Let’s say you have a Dataverse record that you want to do some things to post creation, for example, maybe you have special requirements for generating a value for the Primary Name column or need to add records to another Dataverse table, and so on. That begs the question, how would you prevent the user…
I wanted to generate a Word Document that would display user information from the Dataverse. I wanted to display the results in a table, but the table would not take up the complete width of the Word Document so I wanted support for two columns. To generate my report I created a flow, which I…
This article is just a list of recommended best practices for the Default environment curated from other Power Platform sites. What makes the Default Environment so special? A single default environment is automatically created by Power Apps for each tenant and shared by all users in that tenant. Users with a standard Power Apps/Power Automate…
In my Model-Driven App, I wanted users to be able to use the Quick Create Form when click the New button. Seemed like a pretty simple request, but like most things, it wasn’t. I was able to use the Quick Create From from a Sub-grid or a Lookup, but not a View. What to do?…
As I was “sharpening my saw” with deploying Power Platform solutions from one environment to another I ran into a “gotcha” that took a couple of days to resolve! Ugh! Let me set the stage. In my Dev environment I have a solution that contains the following: The Sample 1 Item List cloud flows consists…
I wanted to create an example of Model-Driven App view where a user could set the value of a Yes/No Choice, which would in turn, toggle the visibility of a specific section within the view. I created a Solution. From my solution, I created a Table in the Dataverse, called Sample 3 – Items. The…
I was asked to create a sample Canvas App that made use of the Smartsheet Connector. I created a Smartsheet account, and created a sheet call Star Wars Characters. I created two flows, one to get the columns and another to get the rows. Now, I realized I could have done this in a single…
