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One thing that drove me crazy on a regular basis was getting more than 5000 records from Dataverse in Power Automate. It felt like sometimes it was working while in other cases it was not. Microsoft’s documentation clearly states that it SHOULD be working when you are using Pagination 👍 A quick test on the Contact entity without any filters says this is true, first done without pagination returns exactly 5000 records....

Welcome to the second part of our ALM series 🚀 In the first part we discussed the idea behind it and made a rough sketch of how one can implement a Power Platform specific ALM process. In this part, we are looking at the Source Control step of it. Source control is our storage of every version and change we are making to our solution. This is incredibly helpful for documentation purposes but you can also easily roll back to the previous version....

ALM is a term being used more and more around the Power Platform and covers a wide area of topics. In this series, I want to take a deeper look at it and use a project of mine to illustrate the process with lots of examples. Let’s start with the most obvious questions: What does “ALM” even mean? 🤔 ALM is short for “Application Lifecycle Management” and is most commonly used to describe the combination of processes, tools, and most importantly people to manage a product or app during its complete lifecycle from development, testing, deployment, production usage, feedback and so on....

There is a new preview feature for Model-Driven Apps available: Customize app commands (preview) 🎉 If you are familiar with Scott Durow’s Ribbon Workbench then you will be familiar with the concept of modifying your apps ribbon menu or how Microsoft calls it nowadays - the command bar: Command bars are at the core of every model-driven app and appear in many different locations. Commands are arranged in relation to other commands and are associated with a command bar location....

Recently I had a few cases in working with Power Automate and Dataverse Plugins where I had do stuff like sums and other things related to many records. Until I mostly gone the probably “most simple” way: Fetching all relevant records and iterate through them and do the calculation that was needed. Works okay but always felt a bit cumbersome 🤔 This time I wanted to try something new I always was there but until now had never tried: FetchXML aggregates....

Ever encountered problems with loading data in your Canvas app OnStart property when embedding it in a Model-Driven-App? While it usually works great, I found one situation where you have to put in some additional steps to ensure everything is loaded correctly. Time for a Quick Tip 💡 ❓ Using ModelDrivenFormIntegration.Item as filter In my app I want to embed a Canvas app on the main form of my entity Budget....

You might have heard of Domain Driven Design (DDD), or in case of Power Platform of License Driven Design but do you know there is a new kid on block? Today we are going to introduce Emoji Driven Design (EDD) 🥳 In my last post I was exploring how you can utilize Emojis as table and app icons. People seemed to like it so in this post I wanted to explore where else we can use Emojis in Model-Driven apps to quickly enhance their user experience and looks....

When you take a look around this blog you might notice that I’m a huge fan of using emojis. They offer a lot of advantages and make texts easier to read by supplying visual emphasis. Thanks to the power of Unicode we can use them almost everywhere. That includes the Power Platform. I probably first saw this applied by Megan Walker in her famous post Using Emojis in Option Sets. After seeing that you can put them in option sets and charts, my apps started to look a lot more colorful ✌...

Canvas Apps provide an awesome way of presenting tailored UIs to customers in order to enable them to solve their problems in the best possible way. However, a lot of users still love their Outlook client and seem to spend most of their time writing mails in it. Power Apps already provides a built-in Outlook Add-in to get Model-Driven Apps running in Outlook, but there is no such way for Canvas Apps....

In the first and second part of our series we learned what we want to achieve and created our first Outlook Add-in which displays our own custom canvas app. Yay! 🎉 Now we are going to make the whole experience dynamic. Until now the displayed canvas is static in a way, that it is not aware on which mail it is displayed. For that reason, we are going to transfer parameters from the Outlook to the canvas app....