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 themβ€”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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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.

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Layouts in FetchXML Builder

This is a new feature. A brand new fancy feature. This tool is now going from two dimensions to three dimensions.

As always, we can work with the query and see the data. From now on – work also with the layouts to get nice designs.

How do we show the data in the Model Driven Apps? Keep on reading…

Don’t like to read? See my simple tutorial video instead!

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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!

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