We can use invoke an HTTP request to get the Dataverse Id of a record via an OData query, e.g. for the cm_outdooractivities table find the record where cm_sqlid eq 1 cm_sqlid is actually defined as an alternate key so we can also use: Retrieve the id via the below in the compose action:
Here are some useful applications of Power Automate’s Azure Devops Work Item actions. For ones where you use the find example HTTP body requests for other tasks here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/wit/work-items/update?view=azure-devops-rest-7.1&tabs=HTTP#examples 1 Create a work item and set custom fields A Work item can be created as below, to set custom fields you can add the Other…
This post builds on this blog which talks about using the SQL CDS tool to search for Power Automate Flows that modify a specific Dataverse column In this post we look at interrogating the Power Automate Flow definitions to investigate bugs/changes, and also accessing the Flow’s cliendata property in scenarios were organizations don’t allow you…
To locate a flow run when investigating a failed process you need to navigate to this page and keep clicking the button at the bottom of the page to show more records until you find the time that you want. In the situation that you know what day/time that the process failed roughly this can…
Following on from this post https://chrismvnro.com/use-an-ms-form-to-create-a-dataverse-record-and-store-documents-in-sharepoint/. In this post are the specific steps to use a Power Automate Flow to associate a file to a Dataverse record using SharePoint document storage. 2. Add a Dataverse record- we will store a document against this in SharePoint 3. List the Document Location row for that Table 4.…
Setting the account for each new contact that is created is a potentially automatable task. If you store the website URL on your account records AND the contacts have emails AND their domains match, then we can automate this with Power Automate. Some organizations have multiple domains or have changed them over time, so in…
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A common issue with Dynamics 365 / Dataverse is that the user timezone default doesn’t always match what your users expect. One option is to use the XrmToolBox to update user timezone, or to ask all new users to change their preferences in the personalization settings. However we can also do this with a Power…
Instance Web API https://your-org-here.api.crm11.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.2/
See also the link here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/data-platform/webapi/update-delete-entities-using-web-api#update-with-data-returned Sometimes we need to update only a single column of a record(s), although this can be done through the user interface, sometimes it can be tricky when other columns are compulsory or you have a lot of records to update/do it regularly. The update in bulk via excel online…