Navigating Dataverse – 2024 Update In 2021, I wrote a series of blog posts on how to navigate up and down a chain of Dataverse tables At the time, finding the related parent or child records was straightforward using dot …
The Date Picker Control – When using a Date Picker control to select a date and store it in Dataverse, the format of the stored content depends on whether the Dataverse column has been defined as ‘Date only’ or as …
Filtering on Date Fields – I’ve always found working with Dataverse date columns in Power Apps temperamental. I’ve always found a solution that works, but the nagging doubt has remained that I wasn’t completely clear why there was a problem …
There’s a Chinese proverb that says “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” and that equally applies to coding complex formulas in Power FX I was asked about a previous post Filter Based on Child Data, and …
Filter based on Child Data – Here’s a quick demo on how to get a filtered list of records from a parent Dataverse table based on data in a child table In my user case, I have a simple Dataverse structure …
Multiple Search Criteria – If you want to have multiple criteria to filter the contents of a gallery in a Canvas App, here is the best way to achieve it! My user case is that I want to be able …
Lookup Columns – In this post I’ll show how to use Power Automate to access lookup columns and change multiple child records in Dataverse based on the parent table’s record value Boxes & Files In my example, I have a …
When building a Canvas app screen, sometimes there’s not enough screen space for all the data you want to display. Possible solutions are to implement vertical or horizontal scrolling or add tabs to the screen, but a nice alternative can …
Dataverse Many to Many Relationships It can be a little tricky to work out how to navigate the many to many relationships between Dataverse tables Let’s look at the many-to-many relationship between the Teams and User tables. A Team can …
By default, in Power Apps, the data in a choice column is displayed in the order in which the choice options are entered in Dataverse However, choice columns can be filtered and sorted when displayed in a Canvas app. How …
Exiting an app is fine when data has been saved, but the inadvertant closing of an app can lead to lost work. Read on to find out how to use the ConfirmExit property to help prevent users losing unsaved changes …
Android users frequently use the back button on the lower panel of the Android interface to perform a back operation and return to previously viewed screens By default, with a canvas app, this button invokes the Android prompt to close …
