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Dataverse Managed Environments Deep Dive

Dataverse Managed Environments Deep Dive

Tue, 10/08/2024 - 14:45 By julien.biedermann

Dataverse Managed Environments Deep Dive:

What is Managed Environments ?

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

Dataverse Elastic Tables Deep Dive Tutorial

Thu, 06/27/2024 - 14:46 By joao.neto

Dataverse Elastic Tables Deep Dive Tutorial

Intro

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!

Dynamics 365 : Dataverse Preferred solution

Mon, 06/17/2024 - 14:45 By Stephane Pelhatre

Dynamics 365 : Dataverse Preferred solution

Introduction

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

Mon, 06/17/2024 - 13:47 By Stephane Pelhatre

Power Apps : Smart Email Address Validation

Introduction

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:

Model-Driven App Copy

How to duplicate a Model Driven App

Thu, 02/29/2024 - 15:08 By joao.neto

Intro

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.

 

How To (using the modern editor)

  • In your Power App environment (make.powerapps.com) go to Solutions and select "New solution"

  • Enter your new App Display Name, Name and publisher

Power Apps Release Channel

Thu, 02/15/2024 - 14:32 By joao.neto

Intro

Have you have asked yourself how frequent Microsoft is delivering new features into you Power Apps environment? I do !

So the initial concept comes from M365 channels that was later adapted to Power Apps and it allow admins to chose how often your Power Apps  env gets new features from Microsoft.

How it works

The by default is the called Semi-annual channel (twice per year) giving the cadence of 2 release waves per year (April and October).

A new monthly channel option that enables GA-ready features to be release every month.

Customer Type Field

Dynamics 365 Dataverse : Customer Type Field

Thu, 01/18/2024 - 15:04 By joao.neto

What is?

This field it's provisioned along with some of the traditional Dynamics 365 licenses (sales, customer service) and it's a specialized type of lookup field designed specifically for establish a relationship between records in different entities ("linking records") to account or contact entities, often used in the Opportunity entity.

When adding new table columns based on this field type two new relationships are added to the entity making it the interesting part of this field.