Taking Your Model-driven App to the Next Level with Xrm.App.sidePanes

Side panes are a type of interface component that can display related information or actions to the user in a panel on the side of the screen. This can be particularly useful for improving the user experience by reducing the need to switch between different pages or tabs. Here's an example of how to use … Continue reading Taking Your Model-driven App to the Next Level with Xrm.App.sidePanes

Plugin vs Entity scoped business rules

In Dataverse, a business rule is a declarative way to apply a set of conditions and actions in the system. Business rules in Dataverse can be scoped at the entity level and at the form level. The scope of a business rule in Dataverse determines which records and forms the rule applies to. There are … Continue reading Plugin vs Entity scoped business rules

Dataverse matrix data access structure aka modernized business units

Business Unit structure is a basic of the security structure on Dataverse. In most of the case it depicts the organisation structure of the business. Standard behaviour of Dataverse is that one user can be part of only one business unit. There are business constraints around that for long time were a user cannot be … Continue reading Dataverse matrix data access structure aka modernized business units

Where is the advanced find?

Dynamics community since yesterday kind of lost their ever loving tool Advanced Find. Everyone including the business is wondering and finding hard to move out of Advanced Find. But that is what it is now, you need to get used to this new Advanced Filters using the unified interface. How I can able to save … Continue reading Where is the advanced find?

[PowerTips] Hide/Show button for non-admin users using Power Fx

In my previous post, I have articulate how we can use Ribbon workbench to add display rules to show/hide buttons. Introduction of new command designer using Power Fx is also a tool we can use to update the enable or visible rules. Limitation with command designer is that it won't support legacy button to customize. … Continue reading [PowerTips] Hide/Show button for non-admin users using Power Fx

[PowerTips] Hide button for non-admin users without any scripting

Show and Hide ribbon button in PowerApps haven't change for so long. Most of the implementation are not using first party app or its core functionality thus some of buttons are not relevant for the business to have any value. Hiding the button is easy though using ribbon workbench by tampering the ribbon XML. Hiding … Continue reading [PowerTips] Hide button for non-admin users without any scripting

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

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)