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 Radulović started the Serbian Power Platform Community and asked for my help. Thanks for asking me! 🙏
Tag: 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 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?
Continue reading “Setting Autonumber Seed in a Managed Solution in Power Platform”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.
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”Themes in Power Apps maker portal
Vote now 👉 Make make.powerapps.com respect environment theme
When Microsoft introduced Themes in Microsoft Dynamics 365, they moved away from the old Ford approach:
Any customer can have a CRM painted
Microsoft Dynamics CRM branding department before themes
any color that he wants,
so long as it is black.
It was now possible to specify custom color schemes and even your own logo.
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