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

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

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)

Full-screen experience to manage solution and it objects

Managing solution stays the same way since it is introduced to Dynamics CRM. There might be new components included in the solution rather than the way it functions and behave. Evolution of power platform, things take a turn and every stereotyped ways are been challenged and changed the way it worked previously. It is a … Continue reading Full-screen experience to manage solution and it objects

Confirmation dialog while saving Dataverse record

There are times we might need to have a confirmation dialog before saving the record and in the case of cancel, needs to refresh the form data to previous state. Confirmation dialog is achievable using the client side SDK scripts. It is pretty easy to put the confirmation dialog in the save event, the tricky … Continue reading Confirmation dialog while saving Dataverse record