About Power Platform CLI Solution Command

We can use tons of remarkable commands in Power Platform CLI that can be very useful. For example, when changing Localization. Instead of doing it in the usual way which needs to change the Personalization Settings > Languages > Base Language: Then we need to go to the component itself in the make.powerapps.com and changed …

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Share File into Power Virtual Agents from Dataverse File data type

For example, you have a table in Dataverse and let the user upload a File into it. Then, when other users interact with PVA (Power Virtual Agent/Chat Bot), we will allow the user to see/download the file. The flow of the scenario will be like the below image: As you can see, we will use …

Xrm.Utility.getEntityMetadata to get the localized label

I got a request to basically create PCF for Two OptionSet (boolean) with the main purpose is to keep Yes, No, and Null/Empty values. If you get the requirement, making it is not hard. But, usually in the project, we also need to support multi-languages. There's an article from Carl de Souza that explaining about …

Power Automate: Working with DateTime to Dataverse

As you know, working with DateTime is never an easy task. Especially if you also combine your Power Automate flow with Dataverse (which by default support showing DateTime based on the System User > Time Zone setting). So, today I will show a little bit of knowledge that I got while creating the Flow that …

MDA: Testing JS changes without deploying

Our routine as Developers, if we get a new task/bug, is "change the code", "deploy", and "validate". For the front scripting, if we don't have the tool to help us update the necessary file easily, we need to open the JS component > update > deploy and publish > then go to the page that …

MDA: How to invoke the formOnLoad event after saved

On form on load event, it is very common to set how the UI looks based on certain conditions. For instance, when the status of the entity/table is Inactive, we need to lock all the controls. So, today we will learn how to do it via JavaScript (client scripting). Without further ado, let's go. I …

How to install Dynamics 365 Report Authoring Extension from Scratch

I rarely create/update reports. And to be honest, my knowledge actually stuck on creating reports using "Report Builder" which at that time we still used the On-Premise version to query the things we needed to make the report. While the latest version uses Fetch XML and forces us to basically install the extension that we …

Dataverse: How to use the condition operator or in multiple tables in FetchXML

Today we will learn how to use the conditional operator "Or" when applying addPresearch in Javascript (but you also can implement it from the backend too). The scenario that we will apply is, on the Contact table, we have a lookup to Parent Contact/Account. In the below image, we can see that I prepare data …

About Dataverse Environment Variable Export-Import

Today we will learn in-depth about Dataverse Environment Variable. Basically, Environment Variable is a table where we can store a value that we will use for our customizations. Where the popular way to do it in the past is creating a custom table (e.g [your_prefix]_configuration/[your_prefix]_generalsetup), now we have the official way to store those data. …

Dataverse – Azure Aware Plugin + Service Bus Queue + Azure Function + Dataverse Custom API

Today, we will learn how to make use of the Azure Service Bus Queue to be implemented alongside Dataverse. The idea is Azure Service Bus Queue offers mechanism to make requests well-ordered which can be a way to make sure that your data is processed in the correct order. The flow that we will build …