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Welcome back to this small series of posts on PowerApps and CDS.
Now that we’ve looked at how to create your first CDS database in the previous article HERE, let’s see how we can use it by loading some sample data.
We can load a sub-set of data generated using a free online service like Fake Name Generator (http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/). Go to Order in Bulk and get a set of data generated based on the setting you configure on the wizard. You can get a maximum of 50,000 records, but for the purpose of this example de default 3,000 should suffice.
Now, with the data file in hand, let’s see how we can load these records into our Contact entity. Read the rest of this entry »
Common Data Service is an Azure based service that allows you to bring data together from the Dynamics family of products, along with other external sources. It is based on the concept of having data living together in one place, where it can be served to apps created through PowerApps.
As described in this previous article, you start by creating an environment. With that in hand, you are ready to create your first database. Make sure you are an administrator in the current environment where the database is to be create, and that the correct license is assigned to you. You create the database either through the Admin center as described in the linked article, of directly from the PowerApps working console, by selecting first the environment you will work in, and then navigating to Common Data Service > Entities.
