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 …

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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: 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 …

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 …

Model-Driven Apps: Disable most recently used items programmatically

When we are talking about lookup in MDA (Model Driven Apps), sometimes we are applying some filter (either using addPreSearch or setting it manually from control properties > view) to ensure the data that the user inputted is valid: But, when we are not disabling the Most recently used items, it can ruin the filter …

Let’s try Power Platform Pipelines

One of the latest features that most people waiting for is the Power Platform Pipelines. I created 3 Developers' environments for demonstration and enabled the Managed Environments feature. For those who want to try it, you can follow this link to get your own environment to test (the link will show you how to join …

Dataverse: Setup spkl from pac plugin init project

When we are generating a plugin project using Power Platform CLI > "pac plugin init" command, the csproj that is being generated it's different from the one that SparkleXrm by Scott Durrow has (the plugin project generated using "pac plugin init" I believe using minimal csproj file). That is why when we are installing spkl …