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Using the User Interface to your advantage with setNotification.

There are some fantastic parts of the model driven app world that are underused and I’m not really sure why? Maybe the fact they require coders to write them but who really knows? Over the course of a few blog posts, I’m going to show you some of my favourite Read more…

By Matt, 4 months4 months ago

Just how easy is Project Oakdale?

I have a pretty good idea of what Project Oakdale is and how it’s a good stop gap between D365/CDS and SharePoint lists. I can see the benefit of it for smaller internal things between Teams too so I thought whilst it’s still very new and in preview that I Read more…

By Matt, 4 months4 months ago

Power Automate Custom Connector Series #1 – What3Words

Sometimes I have a requirement for a custom connector and to be honest, sometimes I don’t but I like the API so I build one anyway as you never know when you’re going to need it! Back in 2019, I was fortunate enough to meet Ben Vollmer and we were Read more…

By Matt, 4 months4 months ago

Changing the fields on “Duplicates Detected”

Having spent a long time specialising in the duplicates and merge area of model driven apps, this is probably one of the most asked questions I’m asked that most people respond with something like “I never knew that”, or “I didn’t see that anywhere in the docs” so I figured Read more…

By Matt, 4 months4 months ago

Enforcing System Required Plugin

During the wrapping up of my required fields series, I wrote a custom plugin to solve the problem that CDS simply doesn’t solve in a safe way – I’ve open sourced that code if you decide you would also like to use it. The raw code can be found on Read more…

By Matt, 4 months4 months ago

Required fields are over-rated (the final part)

4 parts! A 4 part blog post about required fields. Who knew that was possible?! In case you missed previous, here’s part 1, part 2 and part 3. For 3 posts, I’ve spoken about why required fields can be bad and why the phrase “System Required” can be misleading depending Read more…

By Matt, 4 months4 months ago

Required fields are over-rated (part 3)

I’ll be honest when I started writing about required fields, I didn’t expect to still be writing at part 3 but here we are – shows I have a lot of thoughts about them! Part 1 is here and part 2 is here. Previously we have spoken about using required Read more…

By Matt, 4 months4 months ago

Required fields are over-rated (part 2)

Part 2 of a discussion of required fields and where they often fall down in peoples systems.

By Matt, 4 months4 months ago

Required fields are over-rated

Required fields will, at some point, detract from the quality of your data in pretty much any system. I will try and explain why!

By Matt, 5 months4 months ago

Re Introducing Data Validation Tool for CDS

Data Export Validation Tool for D365 CDS. A lot has changed in the world of the Power Platform since this blog post and that’s without even mentioned product name changes. Over a year ago, I launched the Data Export Validation Tool as I was playing with Data Export Service and Read more…

By Matt, 5 months4 months ago

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