Create solution’s setting file for export-import purposes (Power Automate + Dataverse)

When I published this blog post about Power Automate Deployment (manual), the great - Bill Blancett gave suggestions regarding the solution's import setting file that we can use if we want to import the solution using CI/CD or using Power Platform Tools CLI (you need to make sure you install this on your machine): TL/DR …

Learn about Power Automate Deployment

Today we will learn basic knowledge regarding the Power Automate deployment model. As you know, when we want to deploy from Dev to UAT, we need those components inside Solution. The basic components of the Power Automate (Flow) and how we are importing it are like the below image: By default, when we create Power …

Power Automate: (Experiment) Migrate Dataverse Legacy to Latest Dataverse Connector

Thinking about how to migrate Dataverse Legacy to the new Dataverse connector as the depreciation date coming? Here is how I migrate it (remembered to always back up your flows before trying it and do it with your own risk). The easiest way to know the difference is by creating the same exact flow with …

Dataverse: Create Custom API to get Email Content based on FetchXml and Email Template

This week, I get a task to update Email Content that is being sent from Power Automate. The existing logic was retrieving data from Dataverse > then populating the data manually (if you need to get lookup data, then you need to have Parse JSON action) > then setting the content with the correct variable …

Create Dataverse Record and Set SharedVariable From PowerAutomate

In Dataverse, we can add several additional parameters when we request something that you can check in this documentation. And from all the optional parameters provided, my favorite is the "Tag" parameter that allows us to pass SharedVariable to the Plugin. In the documentation above, you can see how we can pass those parameters using a WebAPI …

Dataverse: Export Import Solution from your command prompt using PowerApps CLI

Powerapps CLI have lots of function to support our daily activities. The most useful to me of course the command "pac plugin init" that automatically creates Plugin Project. Today, we will learn about Authentication and Solution commands to do export-import across the environment. Installing You can find the download link of the PowerApps CLI on this page. Once you have …

Dynamics CRM: Create API for Sending Translated Message To In-Apps Notification

Today, we will learn how to utilize Azure Cognitive Service to help us translate the message to English, create a PowerAutomate Cloud Flow as an API, and push it to Model-Driven-Apps Apps Notification (Preview).  System Design One of the scenarios that I can think of is we can implement this to make the feedback from the customer resolved as fast …

[Exploration] Dynamics CRM Azure-aware plug-in + Azure Queue + Power Automate

Do you know the Azure-aware plugin? In short, we can create a simple plugin that invokes Azure Service Bus that enables us to do the Publisher-Subscriber model. In this blog post, we will try to make Azure Service Bus, Dynamics CRM Service Endpoint, and CRM Plugin for creating the queue. While for the processing part (subscriber), we will …

How To Consume Microsoft Graph Using Power Automate

Microsoft Graph is a collection of APIs that enable us to access data in the Microsoft Cloud platform. There are lots of useful APIs that we can play with to connect the dot from 1 application through another. For example, we can get data for Users, manage Calendars, etc. Today, we will learn how to consume …

Dynamics CRM Plugin Development: Exploring File and Image DataType

Last week, we learned about File DataType and created Custom API to get the FileName and the Base64String Content. Which I thought is already good enough based on the last knowledge that I knew. But then I saw a post from Daryl Labar about his XrmToolbox EarlyBound Generator improvement around four months ago that said it will generate File attribute …