The functionality to restore backups in Dynamics 365 CRM / Customer Engagement / Common Data Service has been there for a while now. Have you actually used it in a real project in production? 😶 This week we actually didn't have a choice. We got an issue with a managed solution where neither we could … Continue reading Restore enviroment backup
The new Power Apps Maker experience for model-driven apps is catching up more and more with the old classic one. Today, while I was using make.preview.powerapps.com, I noticed this new button "Form settings" where you can now configure the form security roles, order and fallback option. Classic form configuration Current Make experience Preview Make experience … Continue reading Form settings available on preview
The Power Platform curries on evolving and the second wave for this year is already in its way. Microsoft has announced this month the key dates that we should keep in mind to prepare our teams, processes and environments. 2020 Release wave 2 key dates More information is coming the 8th of July. This link … Continue reading 2020 release wave 2 key dates
Would you like to try some of the new features coming for Power Apps? Here is a quick trick you may have missed. Rather than using the default URL https://make.powerapps.com, add a preview to it: https://make.preview.powerapps.com For instance, you can test the new Power Apps portals themes: Where in the preview experience, you will see … Continue reading Make Preview Power Apps
Power BI is normally used to read and visualise data. However, you can go further than that and trigger actions to initiate other workflows. How powerful could this be?! Let's say we have a business scenario where we are analalysing the revenue of our customers. We have this inforamtion in our CRM system but we … Continue reading Actionable Power BI reports
Level Up for Dynamics 365 is one of the most useful productivity tools if you are working with the Power Platform and model-driven apps. This utility is a Chrome extension that allows users to perform advanced actions, that normally would require JavaScript bookmarklets. In this article I'll describe how God Mode works and cover some … Continue reading Level Up God Mode
Microsoft is bringing a new experience around the users apps and the work account information on July 20th 2020, when all users will be automatically switched over. In this article you will learn about the new URLs and their look & feel. My Apps Old URL https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com/r#/applications New URL https://myapplications.microsoft.com https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/user-help/my-apps-portal-end-user-access My Account Old URL … Continue reading My Apps, My Account
The Dynamics 365 Category entity has certain peculiarities, like it doesn't have a state and status attributes as many other entities in Dynamics 365 and the Common Data Service. In this article I'll describe how to create your own custom Category Status and lock the attributes in the form accordingly. Dynamics 365 Category entity doesn't … Continue reading Where is my Category status?
While I was configuring a new Power Portal for a new project, I suddently got a critical error that completely stopped the web site working. The error message was "Server Error in '/' Application.". This article describes how I managed to find out what was the issue and fix problem. The Power Portals have a … Continue reading Server Error in Power Portal
Microsoft has introduced recently a new set of security settigs to provide a more secure identity protection by default. From now on, when you create a new Dynamics 365 or Power Platform trial, you will get these new settigs enabled automatically. These are some of the new changes that have been introduced: Requiring all users … Continue reading Security defaults
