Force rollup field calculation using Power Automate

Rollup field is a great way to capture aggregated values computed over the records related to a specified record. Rollup fields are also part of the low code approach where in it reduce writing/maintaining codes to calculate those numbers. The rollups fields are calculated by scheduled system jobs that run asynchronously in the background. To … Continue reading Force rollup field calculation using Power Automate

Accessing Current Values of Environment Variables in Power Automate

Environment variables have proven to be a valuable solution for creating custom configuration tables within the environment. One of the notable advantages is their seamless integration into solution packages, allowing for effortless movement between different environments without manual transportation. Initially, retrieving the default or current value of an Environment Variable in Power Automate Flow required … Continue reading Accessing Current Values of Environment Variables in Power Automate

My picks of 2022 release wave 2

Power Apps Modern advanced find turned on by default - Classic advanced find is slow and clunky, newer version definitely have improved look and feel.View only relevant activities in dropdown - This greatly helps in user experience perspective.Connect to external data from Dataverse - Virtual table with standard connector like SQL Server, Excel file, or … Continue reading My picks of 2022 release wave 2

Dynamic URL in the Power Automate email body

Power Automate Send an Email connector is quick and effective way to send email if it is not meant to be tracked inside Dynamics CRM. This gives more flexibility in terms dynamic content that we need to embed inside the email body. The connector also have flexibility to set HTML content via the steps in … Continue reading Dynamic URL in the Power Automate email body

Custom Domain for PowerApps Portal

Adx Studio is awesome addition to the Power Platform. Wait a sec, it is PowerApps Portal forget ADX Studio. PowerApps Portal helps us to create external facing websites that allow external users who are outside the organisation to create, view, etc data in Microsoft Dataverse. It also even allow users to browse content anonymously. External … Continue reading Custom Domain for PowerApps Portal

Portal Studio vs Portal Management

Firstly, we all know portal management which is a model driven app currently. This is been available since the day portals are called ADX Studio. It is a place where we can able to configure the various setting of the portal. On the introduction of the PowerApp portals, it is been designed as a dedicated … Continue reading Portal Studio vs Portal Management

Overlapping instances in scheduled flow

Scheduled flows in Power Automate is a awesome tool to schedule any light weight automation. Schedule flow always have a happy path when we are dealing with small amount of data and it runs only once per day or a monthly once. The deadly ones are the one that are running every hour or even … Continue reading Overlapping instances in scheduled flow

Form component control in model driven app (how to access child form data from parent main form)

Form component is a great control used to work with related table (entity) records on a table form within a Power App. You can work with related table records by adding a form component control to another table's main form.In the below example, the form component control is used to load the contact form in the … Continue reading Form component control in model driven app (how to access child form data from parent main form)