07Dec 2018 by admin
PowerApps Canvas using Status Fields in CDS

PowerApps Canvas using Status Fields in CDS

Common Data Services CDS, Dynamics 365 CE, Flow, PowerApps, PowerPlatform
When creating a new Custom Entity and also out of the box core entities, automatically the system in this case CDS will create a series of fields that are used internally and for auditing, and others for user and application use, in this blog I want to give more details on how the Status and Status Reason are used in CDS, and how is been in Dynamics 365 CE for many years earlier.  The Status and Status Reason fields are used to make the records Active or Inactive, giving you the option to mention why the record is active (New, Active, In-progress, draft) or inactive (Cancel, Completed, Sent, ...), when the record is inactive in Dynamics 365 CE, you can NOT make more changes to the record and you will…
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06Dec 2018 by admin
PowerApps Canvas using Lookups with CDS

PowerApps Canvas using Lookups with CDS

Common Data Services CDS, Dynamics 365 CE, Flow, PowerApps, PowerPlatform
The following video is the second part of how to use Canvas apps Lookup fields with CDS (Common Data Service), this video covers how to use the combo box to display lookup fields and using CDS entities or collections to display the data, also how to save the data with PowerApps Patch function and Flow. Previously I presented a blog post and video that show how to use the Dynamics 365 connector with the canvas app and lookups, this videos will provide more details on how to use lookups with CDS (Common Data Service), there are some differences when using the Patch function on the PowerApps application. The application is similar on screen and how the collections and entities are assigned to the Combo box controls, where the differences are…
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04Dec 2018 by admin
Canvas and CDS Relationships

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…)
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03Dec 2018 by admin
Canvas Using OptionSets and Lookup Fields

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…)
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