That title is quite a mouthful, and I did try to collapse it into a few succinct statements but couldn’t make it work. But this is a question I see all the time and like anything, there are a few ways to handle it. The Problem You have a number of developers working on multiple … Read More
Filtering Data with APIM and Dataverse
In our previous post on setting up Dynamics/Dataverse to connect with Azure APIM, we looked at how to get data from Dynamics through APIM. That’s great, but what we’re trying to simplify for your users is how to filter data through a well-defined API. Going back to our Contact example, I’m going to create a … Read More
Getting Started with Azure API Management with PowerApps
Using Azure’s API Management Gateway (APIM) is a great way to offer access to your Dataverse/Dynamics/PowerApps environment and simplify access through a simplified programming interface. There is a great blog post on how to set up your Azure APIM environment to connect to Dynamics available here. The article is a great Getting Started, in my … Read More
Updating your App Registration Connection References for Power Automate
A few days ago, I had someone message asking me to update the secret key the App Registrations for our Power Automate Flows. At first glance I thought – “No problem” – I’ll go to the Flow, and update the connections. But even though I could add an app registration for a flow from the … Read More
PowerApps Solution Architecture: The All-In-One Solution
After many years of building apps on the Dynamics/PowerApps platform, I still get asked about how to architect PowerApps solutions. How do I group components? What’s the best solution for pipelines? What solution model works best for big or small teams? How do we future-proof ourselves so we never have to change our solution ever … Read More
Adding Azure Key Vault Environment Variables to your Solution
When I was doing some early learning on Environment Variables, I came upon the inclusion of Azure Key Vaults within Environment Variables and wanted to dig into this more. If you haven’t seen this functionality, when you go and create a new Environment Variable in your solution you can select the source as an Azure … Read More
Building and Deploying your First Azure Function with Node.js
I’ve been writing Azure Functions for a while and working with Node and thought it was time I took the plunge to get both of them working together. To get started, you’ll want to have Node.js (because that’s what you’re building), VSCode (because that’s for coding), and the Azure Core Functions Tool Library (because that’s … Read More
Power Automate Flows Turning On when Off
I was recently working with a client on a project where we had to disable some of our flows from running to validate some data scenarios. Turn Flows Off, they turn off, all good. Then we decided to investigate what the problem might be so we opened up the flow and clicked on “edit”. Now, … Read More
The Never-Ending Managed vs UnManaged Solution Debate
I came across a great win the other day when doing some work using pipelines in PowerApps. When it came to deploying to another environment, the only option was to deploy as Managed. Yes, Managed. That was the only option and the first time that I have ever seen a definite push for people to … Read More
Using Environment Variables in Power Automate
I’ve been meaning to play with Environment Variables in Power Automate a bit more and spent some time with them today using them in conjunction with Pipelines. Environment Variables are a great replacement for those configuration entities you used to create that lets you configure environment data as you deploy it and then let your … Read More