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.
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.
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.
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.
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