That title is quite a mouthful, and I did try to collapse it into a few succinct statements but couldn’t make it work. But this is a question I see all the time and like anything, there are a few ways to handle it. The Problem You have a number of developers working on multiple … Read More
In our previous post on setting up Dynamics/Dataverse to connect with Azure APIM, we looked at how to get data from Dynamics through APIM. That’s great, but what we’re trying to simplify for your users is how to filter data through a well-defined API. Going back to our Contact example, I’m going to create a … Read More
Using Azure’s API Management Gateway (APIM) is a great way to offer access to your Dataverse/Dynamics/PowerApps environment and simplify access through a simplified programming interface. There is a great blog post on how to set up your Azure APIM environment to connect to Dynamics available here. The article is a great Getting Started, in my … Read More
A few days ago, I had someone message asking me to update the secret key the App Registrations for our Power Automate Flows. At first glance I thought – “No problem” – I’ll go to the Flow, and update the connections. But even though I could add an app registration for a flow from the … Read More
After many years of building apps on the Dynamics/PowerApps platform, I still get asked about how to architect PowerApps solutions. How do I group components? What’s the best solution for pipelines? What solution model works best for big or small teams? How do we future-proof ourselves so we never have to change our solution ever … Read More
When I was doing some early learning on Environment Variables, I came upon the inclusion of Azure Key Vaults within Environment Variables and wanted to dig into this more. If you haven’t seen this functionality, when you go and create a new Environment Variable in your solution you can select the source as an Azure … Read More
I’ve been writing Azure Functions for a while and working with Node and thought it was time I took the plunge to get both of them working together. To get started, you’ll want to have Node.js (because that’s what you’re building), VSCode (because that’s for coding), and the Azure Core Functions Tool Library (because that’s … Read More
I was recently working with a client on a project where we had to disable some of our flows from running to validate some data scenarios. Turn Flows Off, they turn off, all good. Then we decided to investigate what the problem might be so we opened up the flow and clicked on “edit”. Now, … Read More
