Category Archives: Microsoft PowerApps

How to Read the current Model-driven App details using client API references

Introduction: In a recent project while working on client-side scriptings, we had come across a requirement where we interact with Dynamics 365 CRM data using WebAPI and query expressions. In most cases, we needed the current Model-driven app AppId to build the WebAPI URLs. We had achieved this by using Dynamics CRM Client API references.… Read More »

Filtering Sequences in Sales Accelerator by using Tags in Dynamics 365 CRM

Introduction In Dynamics 365 2021 release wave2, you will notice there are many enhancements added under the Sales Accelerator. One of which I came across is the new filtering capability added to the sequence grid. Sequences feature in the Sales Accelerator helps the sales manager to define consecutive actions that sellers need to follow while… Read More »

Decide the views you want to see in Model driven apps in Dynamics 365 CRM / Dataverse

In our earlier blog we talked about the new modern advanced find experience. As a part of modernization exercise we lost the button. Here we discuss what they gave us – Ability to choose the views that you see in the View selector. And that’s a huge one. With the modern advanced find experience enabled,… Read More »

Easy Configuration of ‘Choices’ Column in Power Apps Portal

Introduction: In this blog, we have explained how to configure the Choices column in Power Apps Portal and how to retrieve the selected options from the same. This latest feature will help us to display the Choices column i.e. Multi-Select Option fields on Basic Forms. To configure this feature in Power Apps Portal, we need… Read More »

Check entity form design of different devices using Power Apps

Introduction: In this blog, we will see how we can test entity form (OOB, Custom) on different devices such as Desktops, Tablets, and Mobile Phones using Power Apps. When we use classic mode to customize entity form, we don’t get the ability to preview the designed entity from on different resolution. To test the form… Read More »

How to read the value from a Flip Switch Control in EasyRepro?

Introduction: Over time we have seen how by using EasyRepro we can perform UI Automation testing in Dynamics 365 CRM by getting and setting values in fields of different datatypes. In EasyRepro we do find predefined methods to get and set values of fields of different data types. However, recently while creating an automation project… Read More »

‘Error occured.System.Exception: Can not create the routing rule item as selected queue is not of entity type…’ Solved

Introduction: While working with case entity and queue entity in the Customer Service Hub app we encountered an issue which states that we can only route to Entity type queue. After investigating, we found that this issue arises due to OmniChannel Apps installed in Dynamics 365 CRM environment. What is the issue? We created a… Read More »

Dataverse Search – Easier than before to find data in Dynamics 365 CRM / Dataverse

Amongst the various options to quickly lookup or search data in Dataverse / Dynamics 365, the most popular remain 1. Search box in the view – search within the view being listed 2. Advanced find search – you can setup your detailed search criteria for specific tables and columns and get the desired results 3.… Read More »

Collaboration between makers now available in Preview for Model Driven Power Apps in Dynamics 365 CRM / Dataverse

Introduction In PowerApps, Microsoft has introduced one new feature i.e. Comments. With the help of comments you can add comments against a view, form, and dashboard. Because of this feature, another person who is working on the same entity form or view will get an idea of what changes were made by the person. Mainly… Read More »