Environment variables in Dataverse are a powerful vehicule to develop portable customizations between different environment. Recently, a new Secret Data Type was introduced that enables the use of secrets stored in Azure Key Vaults 🔐 . The integration between Dataverse and Azure Key Vault was long-awaited and I am really…
One of the most anticipated feature of the PowerApps Control Framework (PCF) last year was the Lookup datatype support. Hence the ability to bind a PCF control to a Lookup field in a Dataverse Model-Driven form to customize it’s behavior. The feature was released last summer (see official post) and…
In my last post I explained how to enable custom webpack configurations in a PowerApps Control Framework project. I also showed how to generate the source-map file of the generated PCF bundle. PCF controls – Custom Webpack configurations To continue on this track and push things a little further, I…
When developing Power Platform PCF controls, at build-time, Webpack is invoked to bundle the code and dependencies into deployable assets. While the out-of-the-box configurations are suitable for most of the basic PCF control needs, sometimes, you need to throw your own custom instructions in the game. This is what we…
In-App notifications for Model-Driven apps (still in preview at the time of writing) exposes a central notification hub in Power Platform model-driven apps and the notifications model provides a fantastic vehicle to deliver contextual and user-specific information. In this blog post, I will continue my exploration of In-App notifications and…
In-App notifications for PowerPlatform Model-Driven apps are now available in preview. The feature provides a central notification hub in the app and the notifications provides a fantastic vehicle to deliver contextual and user-specific information to end users. While my last post showed how to enable notifications in model-driven apps, let’s…
In-App notifications for PowerPlatform model-driven apps has been released in public preview (see official Microsoft blog post below). I am particularly excited about this new feature as it opens up very interesting scenarios that can have a significant impact on the user experience. Before you can start flooding your users…
I was invited for the 2nd time on the XrmToolCast podcast with Scott Durrow and Daryl Labar, this time to talk about the Custom Api Manager and Catalog Manager for XrmToolbox.
Business Events (still in preview at the time of writing) are opening up new paradigms for event-driven patterns in the Dataverse. (👉see Microsoft press release). Essentially, They rely on 2 new tables Catalog and Catalog Assignment that are surfaced in the Solution explorer. However, the authoring capabilities are limited for…
If you are developing Dataverse Custom APIs, you might have noticed that a new column (field) called ‘Enabled For Workflow‘ recently showed up in the Custom API form. In this post, we will try to make sense of this new feature, understand its impact on the Custom API extension model,…
