We will discuss on this blog the possibility of changing the view name using the Power Automate Cloud Flows. This idea comes from the fact that I am frequently asked to change the naming of the views. In fact, one of my clients tags all his views with division names. So, when changing the division name, I have to update the corresponding tag in each view.

For example, for the Account table, I have the following views:

• (Old Division) Active Account
• (Old Division) My Active Account
• (Old Division) Accounts Being Followed
• …..

The objective is to change the (Old Division) tag by (New Division) in all account entity’s views.

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How does it work?

• A System View corresponds to a row in the SavedQuery table.
• SavedQuery’s row can be updated by CDS (Current Environement) Connector.
• Custimization can be published by the OOB PublishXml action.

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Cloud Flow steps in detail:

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  //Get All Account's System Views tagged by (Old Division)
  Filter Row:
   contains(name, '%Old Division%') and returnedtypecode eq 'account'

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  Name Expression: replace(items('Apply_to_each')?['name'],'Old Division','New Division')

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  ParameterXml: <importexportxml><entities><entity>account</entity></entities></importexportxml>