Canvas App Size A canvas app runs in a client browser as a single web page and the larger the canvas app size, the greater the device memory that can be required for the app to run If an app […]
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If an action in a Power Automate cloud flow runs as expected, a HTTP 200 response is received together with any data requested. However, if the action doesn’t complete due to an ‘intermittent failure’ then one of the following status
From time-to-time, things don’t work out exactly as expected, in flows as in life! Using error handling, you can specify an action to run only after the failure of the previous action Error Handling In this example, I want to
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Power Automate flows have a maximum size of 500 actions. However, long before you get anywhere close to this limit, think about breaking a monolithic flow down into integrated smaller child flows Child Flows Child flows have a manual trigger
Dataverse has been developed for Dynamics where comprehensive data security is essential. For this reason, Dataverse security is incredibly powerful and flexible, but with that comes a level of complexity! In this post I’ve tried to simplify and explain the
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When retrieving rows using Power Automate, by default the number of rows returned is limited to a maximum of 5000 for Dataverse and 100 for SharePoint Dataverse To increase the limit for Dataverse, turn on the pagination feature from Settings
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As flows grow in complexity, managing a flow’s structure becomes important for fixing issues & testing The Scope action can be used to help make a flow manageable. Scope is an action that groups other actions within it. Its purpose
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CSS is a great way to create graphics and cool effects in a Canvas App. CSS is powerful, flexible and often avoids the complexity of creating a PCF code component With CSS you can visually do pretty much anything and
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In the previous post, I explained how to delete a file based on a change to a column in Dataverse. I used an automated flow to delete a file stored in a Dataverse column which triggered every time the status
Dataverse storage costs can be expensive. If you want to automatically delete a file stored in a Dataverse file column that is no longer required, here’s how to do it In this example, whenever the status of a row in
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Do you need to pass a JSON array to a child flow? Here are 2 simple flows. The parent creates a simple JSON array that I want to pass to the child flow The difficulty is that a child flow requires
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Join JSON Arrays This is how to join two JSON arrays with Power Automate. The first array is generated from Dataverse. The ‘List rows’ step extracts the first 5 rows from a table, in this case the Counties of England
