Recently I was asked to create a reservation system for a client. The actual use case is not too complex, but it requires a public front end for non-organization users to submit a booking request, along with a slew of management and approval options for the back-office user. So I said to myself “yep, that... Continue Reading →
A case (or more) of Data Export Service (DES)
This article is not about what DES is, or how to configure it. You will find literally a thousand articles about that by running a quick search. Instead, I want to focus on some of the scenarios where this makes sense to use.
Concatenate Record Name using Flow
Now you can concatenate record names or any other fields from values in other fields or fields of related records in minutes. Gone are the days of custom code.
Evolving Power Platform Flows as solution aware elements
Recently, with the move to the new versions of the platform and the extension of the Power Platform over the entire ecosystem, we can finally include Flows in a solution.
Retrieve ERP (FnO) schema using Flow
Have you ever worked against a configured FNO, trying to integrate, and finding it a chore to get the schema? What’s the internal field name for that? You could figure it out from ERP, or you could just extract the entire schema using a simple Flow. Make sure you login to flow.microsoft.com with an account... Continue Reading →
