DataVerse

How to use Quick find view to search records in DataVerse/ Dynamics 365 programmatically using Web API

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss an interesting topic on how to perform search queries using Quick find view in DataVerse/ Dynamics 365 through WebApi endpoint. In DataVerse, Quick find view drives the results of searching in the search text box of an entity. If we have a …

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How to write plugins in DataVerse using low code PowerFx functions.

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss about a very interesting feature that I came across – Low code plugins in DataVerse. Before I go ahead and get started, please note that this is an experimental feature. You can learn about this in Microsoft Documentation. Through my blog I …

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{Solved} Dynamics 365 App for outlook missing from Sitemap in DataVerse/ Dynamics 365

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss about an issue I encountered while enabling Dynamics 365 App for Outlook in a DataVerse environment. Through my blog I share interesting tips and discuss on latest releases of Microsoft.NET technologies, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, SharePoint and Client scripting libraries. Please subscribe …

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Filtering attributes for DataVerse plugins registered on Create – How to execute them for specific field changes only.

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss about filtering attributes for Plugins on Create message in DataVerse/ Dynamics 365. The blog will cover the following topics. Through my blog I share interesting tips and discuss on latest releases of Microsoft.NET technologies, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, SharePoint and Client …

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How to write Plugins on CreateMultiple and UpdateMultiple messages in DataVerse

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog, I will discuss on how to write plugins on CreateMultiple and UpdateMultiple messages of DataVerse. If you are not aware of the feature, Microsoft have recently released two new messages in the platform. As of the time of writing this blog, these messages are still …

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How to use CreateMultiple and UpdateMultiple messages using DataVerse SDK Client

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog, I will discuss a preview feature recently release by Microsoft. Through my blog I share interesting tips and discuss on latest releases of Microsoft.NET technologies, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, SharePoint and Client scripting libraries. Please subscribe to my blog to stay updated. Microsoft has announced …

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How to perform DataVerse actions in transaction in Power Automate

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog we are going to learn on how to execute DataVerse actions using transaction scope in Power Automate flow. Through my blog I share interesting tips and discuss on latest releases of Microsoft.NET technologies, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, SharePoint and Client scripting libraries. Please subscribe to …

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How to use fetch function to make HTTP requests from Javascript?

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show how you can make GET and POST requests from Javascript using the fetch function instead of using the very popular XMLHttpRequest. fetch function was introduced way back in 2015 as a modern successor to XMLHttpRequest. fetch returns a Promise and provide a …

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{Solved} “There is no available gateway” – Error while connecting to DataVerse from Power BI using Direct Query.

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show how you can troubleshoot errors you may encounter when creating Power BI reports with DataVerse data using Direct Query option. Without further ado, let’s jump straight to an example. My Power BI Data model has couple of Data sources. If you are …

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How to bind DataVerse Choices field to a Combobox in Model Driven Custom Pages/ Fluent UI combobox in canvas app

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog we will walk you through the following scenarios. If you want to know how to bind a regular Combobox canvas app control to the Choices field of DataVerse, you can follow my blog link here. Let’s get started. My DataVerse table Projects has a Choices field – Capability. It’s values …

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How to bind Choices field of DataVerse to a combobox in PowerApps Canvas apps

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I show how to display a Choices field of DataVerse in a Canvas app Combobox. If your requirement is to bind the Choices field to Combobox in Model driven apps custom pages or canvas app fluent UI combobox, you can follow the blog link here. …

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How to call DataVerse actions/ custom api directly from Power Apps canvas apps

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will demonstrate how to execute Dataverse actions directly from a canvas app. Dataverse actions are great. You can write very complex business logic inside a custom API. Not only that, you can pass multiple input parameters in the request and return multiple response properties. …

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How to retrieve content of Image column in DataVerse and send it as an email attachment

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss on how we can retrieve the contents of DataVerse image column and send it as an attachment in an email. We are going to use Power Automate for this. Power Automate DataVerse connector has actions to upload and download image and file …

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How to get value of Environment variable in Model driven apps/ Dynamics 365 javascript

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss how to get the value of Environment variables of DataVerse in Dynamics 365/ Model Driven apps. I have the following environment variable in my environment and I want to retrieve the value of it in my form script code. To understand how …

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How to bind a Multiselect choice of DataVerse to a combobox in Canvas apps

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will share a quick tip on how to bind a multiselect choice field of DataVerse in a canvas app combobox. For this demo I have created a table in Dataverse – Report which has a multi-select choice column Category. Below are the choices. I …

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How to find all contacts whose birthday falls in current month in DataVerse/ Dynamics 365

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss on how to display all contacts whose birthday falls in the current month. While this blog focus on only finding birthdays in the current month, you can use similar techniques to accomplish the following requirements. and in-fact many other similar requirement on …

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How to set a lookup value in Dynamics 365/ Model Driven apps using javascript

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show on how to set a lookup field value in Dynamics 365/ Model Driven apps using javascript. Lookups in Dynamics 365 model driven apps are essentially arrays. Each array object should have the following three properties. In my example I want to set …

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How to retrieve a user’s timezone from DataVerse in a Power Automate flow

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog, I will show you on how to get the timezone details of a user from DataVerse in a Power Automate flow. Before we get started with the Power Automate flow, it’s important to understand the tables in DataVerse which we will use in the Power …

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How to display DataVerse Lookup as Dropdown in canvas apps

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will discuss on how to display a lookup column of DataVerse as a Dropdown in Power Apps canvas apps. Account has a contact lookup field – Primary Contact. The field is usually required to store the primary contact for a customer. For our demo, …

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No Entities to select when creating SLA in Dynamics 365 Customer Service

Hello everyone. Welcome back to my blog. Today I will discuss about a common problem faced while creating a Service level agreement (SLA) in Dynamics 365 Customer service. If you are new to Dynamics 365 Customer service module or new to the unified interface, you may face this too. Let’s say I want to create …

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How to use Plugin registration tool to register dependent assemblies in DataVerse/ Dynamics 365 plugins.

Welcome to all my blog readers. Today’s topic will be a bit longer than my usual blogs. I will talk about a new feature introduced with Power Platform 2022 Release wave 1. It’s a feature you have been awaiting for especially if you are a Power Platform/ Dynamics 365 Developer. Today I am will discuss …

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When a record is selected – Dataverse trigger flow not showing

Welcome back to all my blog readers. In today’s blog I am going to share with you my recent experience while working with Power Automate flows. I have a model driven app which has a list of contacts for each account. I need a Power Automate flow which should run when a contact record is …

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How to redirect user to Login Page after session timeout in Power Apps portals

It’s been sometime that I have written a blog on portals. However came across this requirement and thought of posting it for my readers. This blog focus on couple of topics. Configure session timeout in Power Apps portals. Redirect to the SignIn page or to any custom page of your choice post session timeout. If …

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Users in Dynamics 365/ Data Verse can be assigned security roles from multiple business units. How does this effect you existing security model?

Before I start the blog, a quick reminder – The feature we are going to discuss here is a preview feature. Since the advent of erstwhile Dynamics CRM and later Dynamics 365 and now in DataVerse, a user can belong to a single business unit. And a user can be assigned a security role of …

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Get Web Api Version Dynamically in Dynamics 365/ DataVerse

Follow Debajit’s Power Apps & Dynamics 365 Blog on WordPress.com Loads of my blog readers wanted to know how to get the Web API version dynamically in scripts. In this blog, I will walk you through the steps to accomplish the same. DataVerse or Dynamics 365 Apps WebAPI endpoint is of the following format. With each …

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