Working with real customer’s deployment requires managing multiple environments – at least Test and Production or additionally a Dev environment. One of the common patterns we use in the solutions is to use Azure Functions as an effective, serverless extension of the point-and-click Power Automate flows. This pattern utilises a Custom Connector created to embed the function call and parameters into… Continue reading Azure Functions in Power Platform multiple environments
Category: PowerApps
Dataflows for Power Apps: transform fixed-width text files
What is a fixed width text file? Data in a fixed-width text file is arranged in rows and columns, with one entry per row. Each column has a fixed width, specified in characters, which determines the maximum amount of data it can contain. No delimiters are used to separate the fields in the file. Could we load data from… Continue reading Dataflows for Power Apps: transform fixed-width text files
Dataflows for Power Apps: cyclic reference error with multiple data sources when you start with empty query
As simple as this: if you don't believe in solutions with Dataflow and just copy queries across most likely you are going to get the following error: I had multiple data sources: Dataverse and CSV file. Because I didn't go through the normal order for steps but just started with an empty query and just… Continue reading Dataflows for Power Apps: cyclic reference error with multiple data sources when you start with empty query
Dataflow for Power Apps: “section Section1;…” error on create
This error for me occured when I was copying scripts and using blank queries. This is not my image, not my database, so don't try to access it, please 😀 I found it in Internet to illustrate the point. section Section1; error This message is a little bit a lot not helping. If you deploy… Continue reading Dataflow for Power Apps: “section Section1;…” error on create
❤Dataflow❤ with Power Apps: bulk update for CDS records
This article is using a test data because using customer data is wrong. The rest is very practical stuff. If you don't use Dataflow for Power Apps still I think you should. I am trying to solve a typical problem. We've got a Choice column Business Type for Account (for example). We need to remove… Continue reading ❤Dataflow❤ with Power Apps: bulk update for CDS records