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[Model-driven apps – In-App notifications] Only System Administrators can view notifications, What about the other users ?

In-app notifications for model-driven apps is a feature that has historically been highly requested by the Dynamics 365 community for the past few years. To meet this long awaited need, Microsoft has introduced this feature for Dynamics 365 CE but not only, also for model driven applications, a Power Apps license is enough to take … Continue reading [Model-driven apps – In-App notifications] Only System Administrators can view notifications, What about the other users ?

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[Model-driven apps – Power Fx] How to open multiple rows in new tabs using Power Fx commands ?

According to the roadmap published by Microsoft, Power Fx commands for model-driven apps will go into general availability from May 2022. This blog will discuss an example using modern commands, and I hope it will encourage you to adopt this new way to customize the command bar and buttons. As mentioned in the blog title, … Continue reading [Model-driven apps – Power Fx] How to open multiple rows in new tabs using Power Fx commands ?

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[Power Automate – Dataverse] How to execute a fetchXml query that includes options not supported by the List rows action?

Dataverse list rows connector allows to retrieve rows from a Dataverse table. This connector can filter rows using OData expressions or fetchXml queries. Unfortunately, the connector does not support all fetchXml requests. This blog will discuss an approach to execute this kind of unsupported queries. Let's look at what the documentation says:The distinct operator and aggregation … Continue reading [Power Automate – Dataverse] How to execute a fetchXml query that includes options not supported by the List rows action?

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[Canvas Apps – Dataverse] How to get distinct values from datasource ?

Power Apps Canvas Apps offers the Distinct function that returns unique values from a table or data source. Unfortunately, this function may not work as expected if the data source contains a large data set. Let's look at this with an example by reproducing the issue: Let's take the Dataverse table 'Contact' and its column … Continue reading [Canvas Apps – Dataverse] How to get distinct values from datasource ?

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[Model-driven apps – Client Scripting] How to avoid calling the same function twice when creating a new record ?

Model-driven apps offer a client API that allows us to implement some business logic in JavaScript. The client API accepts to attach functions to events such as form loading, data changing and more. Generally, we have two possibilities to register a function for a given event. Either in a static way, using configuration. Or dynamically, … Continue reading [Model-driven apps – Client Scripting] How to avoid calling the same function twice when creating a new record ?

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Optimistic Concurrency in Model-Driven Apps Forms

This blog will discuss a proposed implementation of Optimized Concurrency for Model-Driven Apps forms. My implementation is executed on the model-driven app only, using the client API and the new Asynchronous capabilities that the API offers. I won't go into the details of my analysis that led to this implementation proposal. However, I was strongly … Continue reading Optimistic Concurrency in Model-Driven Apps Forms

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Dynamics 365 CRM [Dataverse] – How to cancel the merge cascade for a given relationship ?

In the previous blog, we saw the possibility to force the merge of two accounts if the subordinate account is attached to an active offer. Today we will see how to cancel the merge cascade for a given relationship. Before going further, we will see the standard behavior of the merge. Indeed, after the merge, … Continue reading Dynamics 365 CRM [Dataverse] – How to cancel the merge cascade for a given relationship ?

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Dynamics 365 For Sales: How to merge Accounts if the subordinate record is associated with one or more active quotes?

Merging records on Dynamics 365 CRM is a very powerful feature that prevents duplicate records. I was asked to study this feature for a client who wanted to clean up his customer records, and we reached a point where we had to merge accounts that were related to active quotes. If you didn't know it, … Continue reading Dynamics 365 For Sales: How to merge Accounts if the subordinate record is associated with one or more active quotes?

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Transform your Model-driven app to a multi-session app using settings solution component

This blog will discuss new component added to Power Apps. It is about the "Settings" component. Indeed, this component allows adding a configuration layer for a model-driven application. This allows to easily activate or deactivate a feature for a model-driven app. For more information on this component, I invite you to read this excellent blog … Continue reading Transform your Model-driven app to a multi-session app using settings solution component