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Row Summary in Model-Driven Apps

Row Summary in Model-Driven Apps

Tue, 10/14/2025 - 10:04 By Stephane Pelhatre

Introduction

In model-driven applications, forms often contain many fields spread across multiple tabs and sections, which can make it difficult and time-consuming to find key information. Navigating between these tabs slows productivity and increases the risk of missing important information. Finding key insights quickly can be a challenge.

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Dataverse Functions Deep Dive

Thu, 08/28/2025 - 14:38 By Stephane Pelhatre

Introduction

Microsoft released in 2024 Dataverse low-code plugins. The promise was great : writing plugins using low-code tools. No need to have development skills and use a development environment as Microsoft Visual Studio, write C# code and register plugin in your environment.

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) :

Recycle Bin Dataverse

Recycle Bin Dataverse

Thu, 07/04/2024 - 14:40 By joao.neto

Intro

Have you deleted some Dataverse records accidentally and you're struggling how to managed it ?

The new Recycle Bin feature in preview might be what it solves your problem.

It allows Administrator only (in the preview version) to recover user deleted records up to 30 days!

How it Works

First we need to ensure that the feature is activated doing it this way_

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Power Apps : permanently delete users

Mon, 06/17/2024 - 18:07 By Stephane Pelhatre

Introduction

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.

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:

Change the base currency of a Dataverse environment in Power Platform

Change the base currency of a Dataverse environment in Power Platform

Thu, 05/23/2024 - 14:23 By julien.biedermann

When creating an environment with a database in Microsoft Power Platform, you need to specify the currency to be used as the base currency in Dataverse. This base currency acts as the default currency and is used for currency conversion and reporting.

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