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ENTITY OR TABLE – I Finally got it. I think.

I only show an image of a table, for two reasons: Do not know what a well known picture of entity is (outside of ERD) Dynamics 365 CE / Dataverse has said Goodbye to entities I really did not know why, and this disturbed me for a while. I kept referring entities as entities initially. […]

Hey Microsoft, What Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg

So if I had to say what comes first to sales person: the answer would be a lead If I had to ask the same question to a sales person entering data into Dynamics 365 CE Sales:the answer would be a lead Most probably most of these people would look at weirdly for asking the […]

DATAVERSE DATA IMPORTING METHODS

What are they, which should I choose? IMPORTING METHODS Without even digging deep here are 8 ways to import data. Note not limited to these. make.powerapps.com => Dataverse => DataFlows make.powerapps.com => Dataverse => tables => Account (example) => Data => Edit Data in Excel make.powerapps.com => Solutions => <mysolution> => tables => Account (example) […]

DATAVERSE DATA IMPORTING ERROR MESSAGE

Not the clearest error message Context In a previous blog, I complimented Business Central but bemoaned the quality of the Dataverse error messages. In this blog, I will discuss one of these error messages This message turns out to be misleading in the scenario discussed below. Complex Imports A common process to import data, the […]

LEGENDARY BLOG!! : POWER AUTOMATE

Who knew!!! Child Flows So you want to duplicate a flow that calls a child flow. This is a common requirement for me. Easy “Save As”. However Microsoft says NO, you cannot do this. I would love to know why not. Instead of a simple button, we have to resort to a complex method involving […]

WOW!! BUSINESS CENTRAL:

YOUR IMPORTING DATA IMPRESSES Dataverse has so many choices what should I use Noise The importing of data is critical into any new application. The importing process of data is often treated as noise. In other words it needs to be done, but not given respect in terms of estimating enough time to ensure it […]

FIELD SERVICE – APPROVE TIMESHEETS

Can Field Service and Project Operations both be Dynamics 365 CE? Field Service vs Project Operations Both of these are great in their own right, but there are many inconsistencies between them. It is not good for consultants or Microsoft that these inconsistencies exist. The users get frustrated, question their observations, ask the consultants, question […]

POWER APPS SELECT(

Recently, I have written complex Power App Canvas App, lots of code. Really stretching this low code environment. The code is more complex because, I do not want to have to change the same code in more than one place. Yes, that is code reuse. But this introduces complexities such as chaining SELECT(<BUTTON>) commands. All […]

FIELD SERVICE – WORK ORDER – GEM

When Microsoft gets it Right Setting up field Service Microsoft has really been paying attention to the grumblings of the community. In the last few wave releases we have seen many features implemented wrt making the setup of field service easier. This one flew under the radar for me. Creating an Incident Type from a […]

POWER PLATFORM – ERROR HANDLING

If you have to fail, fail graciously ERROR HANDLING – LOW CODE – WHY? This is very important, if your app wants to play with men. My analogy is there are boys and there are men, boys are the most common low app found, you know the typical three screen scenario. The ideas may be […]