Tag Archives: CDS Connector

Execution Context for CDS (Current Environment) Connector in Power Automate Flows Explained

Power Automate Flows are executed as an asynchronous background execution. It is important to understand the execution context being used for all the steps/actions designed in the flow for audit purposes. Prior to this setting being made available, you needed to associate a connection with every action and the action was executed under the context… Read More »

How to set Owner field dynamically using Power Automate CDS Connector (Current Environment)

Introduction We previously experienced How to set or map null values in the Lookup Field using Power Automate CDS Connector. Let us explore How to set the Owner field dynamically using Power Automate. Scenario: On the Contact entity, there exists an owner field and we want to set the same owner (which can be a user… Read More »

Microsoft Power Automate Flow Trigger Conditions & CDS Filter Expressions Explained!

Microsoft Power Automate Flows are the recommended path forward for extending business logic that traditionally was extended using Plugins and Workflows. For code execution trigger we were only offered message as an option and in case of the update message a step forward to choose the fields that need to be updated for the plugin… Read More »

Update Existing Records in CDS (Common Data Service) Using Microsoft Flow

Introduction: In one of our previous blog, we have seen how to create records in Dynamics 365 CRM using Microsoft flow mobile app. In this blog we will see how we can update the existing record in CDS environment using flow mobile app. For example, we want to update the particular Account record using this… Read More »