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.
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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,…
I had the great pleasure to give a presentation on Dataverse Custom API during the PowerPlatform 24 event on May 5, 2021. You can find the recording here: https://365.training/Player/Index/Power24-05-2021/3daa9377-b3a2-eb11-b1ac-00224808418b
The new Dataverse Custom API feature (now in General Availability 
) empowers developers with the ability to create their own custom messages to extends the capabilities of the Power Platform. These custom messages are then exposed by the Dataverse endpoints (WebApi and Organizationservice) like other out-of-the-box messages (Create, Update, etc..).…
I had the great pleasure to speak at the Scottish Summit 2021. Here is the link to my session on Youtube.
Pursuing my series of blog posts on Dataverse Custom API features, this one will be ‘short and sweet’ and explores the usage of the IsPrivate attribute that can be found on the Custom API Table. The ability to set an API as a Private message is a unique feature of…
I had the great pleasure to geek out with Jonas Rapp and Daryl Labar on this episode of XrmToolCast
This is the first article in a series of posts aimed at showing the main differences between Dataverse Custom APIs and the more traditional Workflow Custom Actions. This article will focus on the AllowedCustomProcessingStep attribute of Custom APIs. Custom API vs Custom Action Dataverse Custom APIs and Workflow Custom Action…
Like most Power Platform developers, I am a heavy user of the XrmToolBox a community project led by Tanguy Touzard. The myriad of tools it surfaces just makes my day to day job a lot less painful. I also secretly been wanting to write a tool of my own to…