If you have not heard yet, you can actually have a free development environment to build and test with Power Apps, Power Automate, and Microsoft Dataverse.
In the Microsoft Learn article, it explains that this plan enables you to:
Create apps and flows without writing code, with full-featured Power Apps and Power Automate development tools. Easily share and collaborate on these solutions with others.
Use a fully managed, scalable data platform with Dataverse, including support for common business application actions. Use out-of-the-box common tables or build your own data schema.
Export the solutions you create in your developer environment, and publish them on Microsoft AppSource so your customers can test-drive them.
For more information, please check out Microsoft Learn. Enjoy learning!
If you started your implementation with an older version of Dynamics CRM and had converted to the latest version or to using Unified Client Interface, and you want to ensure that your solutions are written based on best practices, Solution Checker will come in handy.
December 2018 when Microsoft started to feature it in public view. Based on the customers that used it, it helps them in resolving lots of issues and have seen 20% performance increases on their form loads.
How to get started? Go to the Power Apps portal and head on to Solutions. Select the solution you would like to check, and you will see the Solution Checker button.
For first time users, it will show you an option to install the solution. Installing it will direct you to the AppSource site. Click on Get it now, and it will redirect you to a page where you need to select the environment you would like to use it for. Click Agree and wait.
AppSource: PowerApps Checker
Note: Every new and existing CDS for Apps environment will now have the solution installed automatically
Before you are able to run it, make sure you have the proper Security Roles in your common data service environment. Two of the required permissions are Export Customizations and Solution Checker.
Required Security Roles to run Solution Checker
You know when it’s done when Power Apps sends you an email with the high level results.
What I really like about Solution Checker is the flexibility to review the results. You can easily view the results in multiple ways: online (make.powerapps.com), during export or in your local drive. Reviewing results online will give you the ability to filter results in different helpful ways.
Viewing Solution Checker results online
The cool thing about this checker is, it can detect missing functions that are set in your form properties’ onload, onsave and on change events. Example error: An event registration entry was detected on the form Contact for the entity Contact for the event onload where the function does not appear to exist in the referring web resource script, [name of the web resource file]. The function name defined is [name of function]. This will likely cause issues when trying to invoke the event.
Example of an actual medium severity result
I hope this helps you improve the quality of your solutions. Let me know in the comments below how this helps you or if you would like to share some tips for everyone to learn.
Did you know that you can easily configure fields to a really cool custom control in Dynamics 365 without any sort of coding? Check this out!
You can simply convert a Single Line of Text or Currency/Number fields to an Auto Complete, Business Card, Slider, Knob or a Star Rating control just through configuration. Here’s how:
Navigate to Field Properties and add the custom control of your choice. Depending on what can meet your business requirements, you can set up each of the fields to spice up the user experience.
Whether you are someone who wants to jump-start your career, or someone who wants to become certified, or an individual who just wants to grow their knowledge through in-depth learning and gain more confidence on Power Platform, Azure or Dynamics 365 on your own pace, here are the best place for you to go and learn.
Microsoft Learn – Microsoft has launched an improved learning portal a few years back and has published great content to help developers, architects, and IT administrators of all backgrounds to help them achieve more. I remember having to work on Azure or Dynamics CRM back in the day and cannot find any site to learn real-world examples to help me out. No worries because you will find a lot of helpful content now as Microsoft is committed to empowering everyone and has given us guided learning on all of their platform products and services that we can learn at our own pace. You can now explore their Learning Path to learn specific modules of your choice.
Udemy – This is my go-to place in learning more about Microsoft products from a different perspective. Tons of content creator shared a very detailed tutorial and excellent content to help you either pass your Microsoft certification or learn tips and tricks from their real-world experiences.
Enjoy learning and continue to inspire. If you know other learning sites and want to help out the community, please feel free to share it in the comments box below. 🙂
Lyrio Cristall 