Inject PowerApps Environment Variables into Entity Record Data

PowerApps Environment Variables, a new solution component that provides a great way to transport a definition, default value and override value used in configuration. This provides a lot of opportunity as configuration based in data with a solution was always really complex to do. It solves a great problem but how else can it be …

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Using PowerApps Environment Variables

If you paid close attention to the entities in your environments you might have noticed that environmentvariabledefinitions and environmentvariablevalues have recently showed up in all CDS environment databases (Dynamics 365 apps included). You can also look at your Solution History and probably see a solutions called EnvironmentVariables and EnvironmentVariablesAnchor. If you have EnvironmentVariables 1.0.1.9 then …

PowerApps Portals Pricing Update

Microsoft listens to feedback. The PowerApps Portals pricing that was revealed at Inspire and quickly drew many double takes is getting revised with tier pricing. Below is the full chart of details on the tiers, but the summary is that pricing is based on the amount of logins you purchase per month, with packs of …

PowerApps Portals API – Clear Cache

The cache has been the achilles heel sometimes of the Dynamics 365 portal and now Power Portals. A common function is to clear or reset the cache of the portal so you can see your changes and you can now do that through a hidden API call. Most of us Dynamics 365 portal users know …

PowerApps Portals Licensing for October 2019

If you didn't hear the news from Inspire, the PowerApps Portals is now in public preview and with that comes the announcement of the licensing for the portals. Some of the major changes are to change it to a capacity based license instead of basically a site/portal license. What that comes out looking like is …

Resetting PowerApps Environments Scripted

PowerApps and CDS without the bulk of the Dynamics 365 apps (Sales, Customer Service, etc.) are all the rage now and if you are a developer following a healthy ALM process then you are likely creating and destroying these CDS naked environments on a regular basis. Developers love to work with script and code, and …

Deploy a CDS Starter Portal (Preview)

CDS Starter Portal was a feature mentioned in the April 2019 release notes and if you happen to have a Dynamics 365 tenant that also has PowerApps environment CDS databases provisioned you might have noticed you can actually preview this now! On a new portal add-on if you go and configure, or on an existing …