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04Dec 2018 by admin

Canvas and CDS Relationships

Common Data Services CDS, Dynamics 365 CE, PowerApps, PowerPlatform

New features on the Common Data Service is the relationships and this blog is part of a video posted on Youtube, we will describe most of the features benefits but I will recommend viewing the video. the original documentation will give more details on how to create the Lookup fields and the relationships, the following link has the details Create a Relationship between entities (more…)

03Dec 2018 by admin

Canvas Using OptionSets and Lookup Fields

Dynamics 365 CE, PowerApps, PowerPlatform

The new options from the CDS and PowerApps canvas applications is to use relationships with 1 to many, or many to 1, however this is natively in the Dynamics 365 CE and now on CDS, but how we use these type of fields; for a technical CRM developer this was using the Code Value for the Optionsets and using the ID Guid for the Lookups, among other parts for the complex object. The new web API help to resolve or make it more interesting the way we use these 2 objects, let me get into the details on CRM before we get into the PowerApps Canvas App. (more…)

14Nov 2018 by admin

Microsoft Flow Cascade Update on Dynamics 365 Account Entity

Dynamics 365 CE, Flow, PowerPlatform, Process

The are many connectors under the Power Platform and the ones we will use in this scenario are the Dynamics 365 CE actions and triggers, we will review how to create a Microsoft Flow that connects to Dynamics 365 CE and does Cascading Updates on the Account Address from Parent Account to the Child Accounts records Let’s see how this is done. (more…)

04Nov 2018 by admin

PowerApps Dropdown Color Theme

PowerApps, PowerPlatform

Color coordination was the original PowerApps blog post on my blog, this is the continuation of that series of theme applications and controls synchronization. One of the complex controls in PowerApps is the DropDown controls, you can search values and have multiselection also, I want to have a way to change the colors, accordingly to the topmost control that I called the HeaderBox control, this one will be the base for all the application screens color fill, and the second control is the Header Text, a label that will be the base of the Font, Font color and Size on all the form controls and all app screens. Having those 2 controls as the base of the application UI theme synchronization allows to change the colors and fonts on one location…

28Oct 2018 by admin

PowerApps Color Consistency

PowerApps, PowerPlatform

PowerApps provide lots of options when you are designing a coordinated and synchronized color pattern for your applications. I started looking at some videos from Microsoft on how to design and create a more User appealing application and have an easier way to theme the application or add controls that will look and feel the same way, I was looking a video from Veronica Ward ( Audrie Gordon Youtube channel) and Veronica was mentioning about control consistency and alignment, really important when creating screens and forms to have a good alignment and spacing in between controls for better User interaction but also she display a way to coordinate all controls and colors on the screen. (more…)

19Feb 2018 by admin

Email Whitelisting

Email, Process

THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBING TO ABE SALDANA SHOW. Many companies or email services implement spam filters and block emails that you want to get. Spam Filters are services that check your email and identify if the email is an unwanted or wanted email. To Ensure that you receive our emails please follow these steps: We need to add the abe@abesaldana.com email address to your email whitelist, this is a list of all the email addresses that are accepted and they do not represent span or unwanted emails. In the case that you do not whitelist and email address they often are blocked and move into the spam folder in your email systems, even when you requested to be sent to you. (more…)

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