The enhanced data model has now been GA for a while and I know for all my new projects, we are using by default the enhanced data model. However, there are many “legacy” portals still using the standard data. Microsoft has recently (finally) released a tool to migrate the website metadata from a standard to… Continue reading Power Pages: convert standard to enhanced data model
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Connecting Microsoft Outlook to model-driven Power Apps
One of the great and long standing features of Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (aka CRM) is the integration with Microsoft Outlook. Using the Dynamics 365 App for Outlook you can synchronize contacts, link meetings and appointments and track emails against records so they will show up in the timeline. What about Power Apps? Did you… Continue reading Connecting Microsoft Outlook to model-driven Power Apps
Secrets of the Dataverse: The Report Wizard
Anyone who has been working with Dynamics CRM/Dynamics 365 at some point likely tried the Report Wizard. The Report Wizard was introduced in Dynamics CRM v4.0 as a way to quickly create ad-hoc reports. A video version of this blog post can be found on the 365.Training YouTube channel. Reports created using the Report Wizard… Continue reading Secrets of the Dataverse: The Report Wizard
Updating Currency Exchange Rates in Dataverse (including Dynamics 365)
A little know feature of Dataverse is the ability to manage multiple currencies. This is one of the many standard features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 that is also available when building your own Power Apps based on Dataverse. A while back I posted a blog called Guide to Currencies in the Common Data Service (Note that… Continue reading Updating Currency Exchange Rates in Dataverse (including Dynamics 365)
Set Up Your Workstation to Create SSRS Reports for Dataverse, Model-Driven Power Apps and Dynamics 365
Despite all the cool stuff you can do with the Power Platform, one of my most popular blog posts is Set Up Your Workstation to Create SQL Server Reporting Services Reports for Dynamics 365. The post was likely popular because there were different components in the setup process and Microsoft never did a great job… Continue reading Set Up Your Workstation to Create SSRS Reports for Dataverse, Model-Driven Power Apps and Dynamics 365
How to setup a Common Data Service Application User (and why)
When you build custom solutions where you need to create, read, update or delete data in the Common Data Service (including Dynamics 365 apps), you don’t necessarily want that application to use specific user credentials to do its work. This used to be a common way for external applications and integrations to authenticate to the… Continue reading How to setup a Common Data Service Application User (and why)
How to Delete your Power Apps Community Plan Environment
If you are like me, the best way to learn is hands on. There are hundreds of Power Platform community content such as blogs, videos, presentations and learning paths. Chances are, your boss or clients won’t be keen on you experimenting using their production environments. A great way to experiment is to use the Power… Continue reading How to Delete your Power Apps Community Plan Environment
Simple ALM for Power Apps/Dynamics 365 Projects Revisited – Power Apps Build Tools edition
A few months back I wrote a post on how to implement simple PowerShell scripts to export, unpack and import solutions for Dynamics 365 and Power App projects. That post can be found here and is still relevant; Simple ALM for Dynamics 365/CDS Projects Summary All PowerApps/Dynamics 365/CDS projects, big or small should be using… Continue reading Simple ALM for Power Apps/Dynamics 365 Projects Revisited – Power Apps Build Tools edition
Guide to Currencies in the Common Data Service
A few years back I wrote a blog post on how currencies worked in Dynamics CRM. This was before the Power Platform and the concept of model-driven Power Apps, but essentially, Dynamics CRM was a model-driven Power App. The question came up recently on a Power Apps forum (Facebook, I think) and I realized there… Continue reading Guide to Currencies in the Common Data Service
How to Delete a PowerApps Environment
If you are like me, you have been creating a lot of environments for various projects, proof-of-concepts and experiments. Sooner or later you will hit an instance/capacity issue and will no longer be able to create new or convert to production environments in your Power Platform Tenant. The quickest way around this is to do… Continue reading How to Delete a PowerApps Environment
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