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Introduction: In Power Platform, at times we must take few elements from an Array or few characters from a given string. In these scenarios, Take function in Power Automate can be used. As an example Employees String Array and Employee Name String variable were used to explain this behaviour. Step 1: Login to the required …
Continue reading Power Automate Fundamentals # 52: Usage of Take Function in Power Automate
Introduction: In few scenarios when working on List of records for a given entity, we must provide paging to perform certain operations. In order to achieve this, we use different actions in Dataverse and power automate like do until, List Rows, Scope, Initialize, Increment and Set Variables . As an example for contacts entity with …
Introduction: In Dynamics 365 CRM, way to link Web resource to a Form was by using Classic form where we can attach a web resource to form. As an example, in Contact customizations solution for contact main form we see how to link web resource by registering to form load event using classic UI which …
Continue reading Back to Basics # 39: Link Web resource to a Form using Classic UI in Dynamics CRM
Introduction: In few scenarios when working on List of records for a given entity it is needed to find out the count of total records present in that table to perform certain manipulations. Here length function in power automate can be used to get record count for a given list. As an example contact table …
Continue reading Power Automate Fundamentals # 50: Get Record Count for a List in Power Automate
Introduction: In certain scenarios we have to bundle multiple operations together so that all should pass or fail, in any case if one of the operations fails then all the other operations gets roll backed to make atomic operations. To achieve this functionality in Power Automate we can use ChangeSet Request Action , as a …
Continue reading Power Automate Fundamentals # 49: Usage of ChangeSet Request in Power Automate
Introduction: In Dynamics 365 CRM, post creation of a web resource, to use it in CRM Form for a selected entity then we must add web resource into Form Libraries present at form level and then tie it to Event Handlers for a selected Event on Main Form. As an example, in Contact Customizations Solution …
Continue reading Back to Basics # 38: Link Web resource to a Form in Dynamics CRM
Introduction: In Power Platform, for certain business scenarios we must extract first, and last characters of a given string or First and Last items present in an array. First And Last function can be used in power automate to achieve this functionality. Step 1: Login to the required Power Apps environment using URL make.powerapps.com by …
Continue reading Power Automate Fundamentals # 48: Usage of First & Last Function in Power Automate
Introduction: In order to get details of related entity for the selected entity without separate retrieve call we can leverage Expand Query .As a business scenario for the same vaccination use case extracting details of accounts that are present in list of contacts who took vaccination. Step 1: Login to the required Power Apps environment …
Continue reading Power Automate Fundamentals # 47: List Rows Based on Expand Query in Power Automate
Introduction: In Dynamics 365 CRM, we can create a web resource through CRM Classic UI other than Unified User Interface. As an example, let us see the process of creation of web resource in Contact Customizations solution. Step 1: Login to the required environment and select required solution [Contact Customizations Solution in this case] as …
Introduction: During certain scenarios we must work on List of records to perform certain operations like sending alerts to list of customers. In these scenarios it is critical to filter records to make sure actual requirement was met. In Power Automate, we can use FetchXMLQuery option under List Rows as an example we can see …
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