Recently, I got a request, or rather a kind ask, if I could give my perspective on how to grow even more in our small, tiny, little part of the world – the Power Platform.
I know, in the big picture, this platform means nothing in a hundred years, but here and now, we live on this platform.
Luka Raduloviฤ started the Serbian Power Platform Community and asked for my help. Thanks for asking me! ๐
Category: Power Platform
Setting Autonumber Seed in a Managed Solution in Power Platform
Some details in the Power Platform are intentionally excluded from the solutions. Still, most of us developers think they are part of themโunless 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?
Continue reading “Setting Autonumber Seed in a Managed Solution in Power Platform”FetchXML improve for us to achieve more
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.
More work โก๏ธ More features
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!
Continue reading “More work โก๏ธ More features”ALM a la Rapp – Evolve Power Platform delivery
What is ALM?
As always, it’s an acronym. ALM means Application Lifecycle Management and many texts about ALM are available; white papers, articles, blogs, how-tos… But in my subjective it means:
Continue reading “ALM a la Rapp – Evolve Power Platform delivery”Keep track of everything we need.
/Mr. Rapp
Don’t track things we can generate.
Generate everything automagically.
Microsoft Power Fx + XRM Tokens
Why mixing two very different but very similar features?
I hope you will see it, if you read on…
What’s a Token?
I don’t really know why… but it’s a word, a special word, representing other words… where the word is a data word, will be replaced with words from the actual data, as it is actually used. I think.
Continue reading “Microsoft Power Fx + XRM Tokens”A few requests for Environment Variables
It’s a small thing, a very fringe feature, and these improved features requests are only for me… or… crucial for everyone…?
The Environment Variables feature became officially released a year ago, probably when I was “off the grid” last year. I sort of missed that… but it’s here now anyway.
It’s like system settings, and is now supported by the core Power Platform. We don’t have to build anything for that anymore.
Continue reading “A few requests for Environment Variables”Know the Dataverse, Solution, and Publisher
Why are Solutions a new feature in FetchXML Builder?
Solutions have nothing to do when we’re working with queries, right?
So why is this the best feature I have released this last year, or longer?
I know, the subject seems like a crazy big blog…
…anyway, go on and see why you should know it!
NEW: Bulk Data Updater ๐
It is crazy!
I have now released
a new version of my tool.
Bulk Data Updater (and Assign, SetState and Delete of course) got the improved:
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