Setting Autonumber Seed in a Managed Solution in Power Platform

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Some details in the Power Platform are intentionally excluded from the solutions. Still, most of us developers think they are part of them—unless we read enough about the docs (which is boooring).
One example is Seed for columns that have the type Autonumber.

As far as I know, the seed is not stored in our tables or columns; it is only known in the deep down of the mystery SQL Server. So, how can it even be settable in the Maker Portal?

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Three Big improvements in UML Diagram Generator for Microsoft Dataverse

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I send a HUGE thanks to three of my fantastic users for these three new great features!

Jim Novak at Microsoft got me a big pull request to support – not only just PlantUML – but also DBML.
Matt Ritchie at Wesley Mission gave me a tip about supporting packages what I call Groups.
@Warp999 suggested that we may let Themes decide the layout of our Dataverse model.
I only know her/his user at GitHub – please reveal you if you want to!

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Helping Me – Helping You

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Starting up a business? Nope.

Well, I have my own small company – we all have one, of course, mostly for fun, and it is clearly dormant. Don’t you have one?

My created tools are free, but definitely not just for fun!

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Scary, dangerous, creepy tools 😱😬

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…am I hacking your system?

There are a bunch of completely awesome and can’t-live-without tools. Most are created by the community, like me.

These tools can break your system. Completely.

“Are these tools even legal??”

Too often, I’ve heard CTOs and others say that these tools should be stopped! Either by thoroughly educating all users not to use them or simply by blocking these crazy tools on their computers.

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Tools can always be improved

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While working on the next release, I realized I had to make this tool look better, nicer, and cleaner.

I was working to add a few new features, so why take on the extra work to deliver a tiny new interface?

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FetchXML improve for us to achieve more

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I got a challenge from my colleague at CRMK:

I need to set owners on accounts with a team with the same name as the account.

Mia @ CRMK

Is that even possible??
Yes, it actually is.

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Follow Microsoft to trigger plugins by Bulk Operations

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Microsoft has recently urged us to move all our plugin steps from messages: Create, Update, Delete to instead use: CreateMultiple, UpdateMultiple, and DeleteMultiple.

I like that.
I like that a lot

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More work ➡️ More features

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During the last few months, I’ve been working more than ever (well, most after my little stroke issue three years ago), and more work apparently creates more needs, more features, more improvement – just more!

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