Dataverse Managed Environments Deep Dive:
Managed environments is a set of features that allows administrators to manage Power Platform at scale with more control, less effort, and more visibility.
List of features available with Managed Environments for now (18/09/24) :
Dataverse Elastic Tables Deep Dive Tutorial
Said to be the "Super Heros" of the information world, that they're super fast and can store lots of information and that they're a game changer for storing massive loads of data.
I went to undercover what's behind the scenes of this Elastic Tables feature and check if the rumours are fake or not!
When a user is deleted from the Microsoft 365 admin center, the user isn't removed from Dataverse environments in which it is active. Instead, the user's status is set to Disabled in the Power Platform. And you do have the possibility to delete it.
As a consequence many disabled users can pile up in the Power Platform.
With the feature 'Delete Disabled Users' Microsoft has introduced the possibility to permanently delete disabled users from the Power Platform.
Dynamics 365 : Dataverse Preferred solution
By default, unless already in the context of an unmanaged solution, all changes performed in your Power Apps environment (creating a table or column, updating a form, ...) are stored in the solution named Common Data Services Default Solution.
With the preferred solution you can specify a solution to which all your changes, that are made outside of the context of the unmanaged solution, should be automatically added.
Power Apps : Smart Email Address Validation
Traditionally, the existing Email column type has only basic email validation: a valid email address consists of an email prefix (left part of @ symbol) and an email domain (right part of @ symbol). So it is a very basic validation.
With smart Email address validation, the Email column comes with better validation that includes reasons for the column being invalid.
Smart Email address validation detects the following issues:
The Alternate keys provide an efficient and accurate way of integrating data with external systems. It’s essential in cases when an external system doesn’t store the Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) IDs that uniquely identify rows in Microsoft Dataverse.
Some of the benefits of the alternate keys feature include:
You're probably familiar with the "Choice" data type in Power Apps which allows you to select a single item from a drop-down list.
You may also be familiar with multi-select column (called Choices) which allows you to select multiple items in a drop-down list.
Who never ambled around Power Apps trying to get the way to make a copy of its Sales, Field Service, or any other App to kick-start a new App?
Well I did !
And that's why I'm giving here a tip on how to leverage it quick and easy.
In your Power App environment (make.powerapps.com) go to Solutions and select "New solution"
Enter your new App Display Name, Name and publisher
The official announcement of the public preview of formula columns in Dataverse was made on September 15, 2021 and was released in general availability in late 2023.
