In Customer Insights (Real-Time Marketing), you have 3 options when creating a compliance profile, the first two involve using built-in Microsoft portal pages (Preference and Subscription Center) – where the Preference Center is particularly geared towards Real-Time Marketing, and the Subscription Center is geared towards the older Outbound Marketing. The third option, the External Compliance … Read More
Category: PowerApps
PowerApps Solution Architecture: The Summary
Over the past few posts, we’ve discussed several different architecture options for designing and maintaining PowerApps Solutions. The All-In-One Solution The Feature-Based Solution The Team-Based Solution The Component-Based Solution The question now becomes which one is the best that I should use every single time. Well, the beauty of architecture is that there are many … Read More
PowerApps Solution Architecture: The Team Solution
The last solution architecture we are going to look at is very similar to the Feature Solution Architecture but instead puts a twist on it – the Team Solution Architecture. In the Team Solution model, solutions are deployed by the teams that create them. The teams can be of any size, but generally, their deliveries … Read More
Updating Records with Azure APIM to Dataverse
Now that we can add records to the Dataverse, the next logical step is to update those existing records. In this scenario, we have a record that already exists so we are going to use the PATCH protocol to update our record. As this record already exists, we are going to be appending our as … Read More
PowerApps Solution Architecture: The Feature Solution
We’ve looked at the All-In-One and Component Solution Architectures and now we’re going to talk about the Feature Solution model. As shown below, the feature solution model is based upon areas (features) that you deem to make sense to your organization. Although Marketing and Service are highlighted below as PowerApps terms, these features could include … Read More
Adding Records with Azure APIM To Dataverse
Azure APIM is great for creating a simplistic interface for your users to get data but you can also achieve the same goal when it comes to inserting data into your environment. Note: The example below assumes you have an Azure APIM instance set up and are connected to Dynamics. If you don’t, go look … Read More
Integrating the Customer Insights Communications Tab
When using Customer Insights, there is a very insightful tab that provides information on your level of consent (what communications are allowed to receive). Out of the box, this tab was only available via the Marketing Customer Insights Form, however now you are able to add this component to your own forms and embed surrounding … Read More
PowerApps Solution Architecture: The Component Solution
Continuing from our previous post on Solution Architecture in PowerApps, we’re going to move forward into the Component Solution model. It should be noted that these names are not written down anywhere and are merely created by me. I’ve used the Component Solution model many times over with great success as it works with small … Read More
Managing Distributed PowerApps Development Teams
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
Filtering Data with APIM and Dataverse
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