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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Part 2 of a discussion of required fields and where they often fall down in peoples systems.
Required fields will, at some point, detract from the quality of your data in pretty much any system. I will try and explain why!
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…
In recent updates, the default behaviour for merging meant it moved to an async action (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/async-cascading). The main UI hasn’t really changed but by moving async, there is some significant changes in the UX and it isn’t near as intuitive as it used to be. What makes it worse is Read more…