Power Apps Ideas

Lachlan_w · ‎10-05-2019

I'd really like a function within Canvas Apps to retrieve the App ID of the app I am currently in. Currently there are a number of features which rely on the App ID to join the dots. We are able to retrieve this from outside of the app via its metadata. It would make for easier and simplier development if the app could be 'self aware' through calling a function such as AppID.() This would allow me to write a formula such as Set(thisApp, AppID.())

AInglis · ‎10-07-2019

As per my query I would suggest the ability to link new contact Entity records to existing Account Entity records during a dataflow import. I understand that this can be accomplished via a manual import from Data Management in the PowerApps Admin Center, however this lacks the Transform and schedule functionality of dataflows.

maverick17 · ‎04-25-2019

Looking for the ability to sort the option sets we create in CDS. This way if we add options later, they can be sorted and not always appear as the last option.

WillGuo · ‎04-02-2019

make the powerapps on mobile like IOS, can show the picture library photo in Sharepoint. currently other information is ok but only pictures can not show on mobile even it can show on web powerapps. please make it happen!

Anonymous · ‎05-23-2019

Please allow/make the Sharepoint connector return all recurring items in calendar lists. Classrooms booked to a fixed schedule will only ever return their first occurence then never show up again in powerapps. While searching i also see this is something that stops Flow users as well.

Anonymous · ‎03-10-2019

As a CDS user, its a real pain to have to maintain an ERD in PowerBI. It would be great that at either in my solution or in the CDS portal I could view the ERD for my custom entities. Also it would be really handy if I could filter the ERD by App. This would help with generating governance documentation.

O365_JP_Support · ‎03-27-2019

After the CDS upgrade, (Upgrade) (org ************) is displayed in the name of the default environment. An error has occurred and the environment name can not be changed. It is not desirable for the default environment to be renamed automatically. We also want the ability to change the default environment name.

Yahya · ‎08-08-2018

Hi I want to make a noise about Model-Driven Apps pricing. While it is included in Plan P2 for developers, the USE of model driven apps should not be ALSO priced at an extra USD 40.0 per user, this is really unfair. P2 should cover that P2 users can develop model driven apps while P1 should allow users to use model driven apps. If you watch comments on your different YouTube channel, twitter etc, you will realize that model driven apps are dead on arrival, because of this unfair pricing. PLease think of that when it is priced fairly, more users will attend CDS, and I promise to be marketing it for free. I intend to make a noise in many places until my voice is heard and until Microsoft decide grants us this 'gift'. Please support this idea. thanks!

Laskewitz · ‎01-03-2019

The new solutions are great for PowerApps, Flow and CDS, but I'm missing the option to add connections to solutions. It would be great to have that available as an option.

BillR · ‎02-03-2017

When you create a picklist, there is a Name field and a Display Name field. The Name field is sort of a unique identifier, like PersonName and the Display Name field is the natural way a User would see the value, like Your Name. Unfortunately, when you build a Power App, the Picklist displays the Name field. Users went to see a friendly field name, not the field the database designer uses.

support_contos · ‎09-19-2019

In the Excel Drive linkage function of the model-driven application, the function to edit the relation destination entity at the same time is required. For example, after opening an entity view called "ABCDEFG", "Open in Excel Online" is executed, but as a relation destination, the "ABCDEFG" column displayed on the "Related" tab of the form is not displayed at all It is not. Also, if you try to edit the view, the related entity column will not appear as an option. As things that can be done are also limited, please improve immediately.

HSheild · ‎06-09-2018

I get the error in the following attachment when trying to map data to a lookup field in Dynamics 365 or Model Driven PowerApps using the CDS Data Integration https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/common-data-service/data-platform-cds-newentity-pq

malkhawaja · ‎10-16-2019

Hi, so I have been building a new Mobile-driven app, and I know that these apps are ready for Offline capability, but when trying to configer my entities to create a Mobile Offline profile as per this documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/mobile-app/setup-mobile-offline-for-admin the option for enabling my entities for offlie was not there, and after calling support, they confirmed to me that this functionality is only available in CRM environments but not CDS! as a new ISV and love to work on CDS, especially with the new licensing model which puts CDS at the front of all other options, switching on this capability for CDS environments allows us in areas like Iraq, which have poor internet services in some of its areas... (and I believe lots of counties have the same issue!) so having this higly required option in our solutions to our customers will be of great impact. thanks, Mohammad

BartSchaap · ‎11-01-2018

In CDS 1.0 there was an option to make a Auto-Number type column. In the current version 2.0 this is no longer available. I would like to have this option because generating an unique number is functionality which occurs in many business scenarios for instance generating an personel number, a product number and so forth.

Anonymous · ‎06-13-2019

Dynamics 365 portals currently have no strategy to check any Pages/Templates/Files into source control. With PowerApps Portals arriving soon, it would be great to be able to create a portal in one environment and be able to check those changes into source control, then from source control, be deployed to another environment using AzureDevOps. I think there are 3 parts to this: Allow developers to make changes in Visual Studio and easily deploy those changes to their dev environment. Check in code changes as HTML/Liquid/CSS/Java (or some equivalent) into source control Provide the ability to build and deploy these files to different environments from AzureDevOps or PowerShell The current method has too much manual intervention as the Configuration Migration utility does not support command line. One thing that I think could be done relatively easily would be to release a CLI version of the configuration migration utility (or better yet, open source it)

Graham · ‎03-10-2017

Surely, the whole point of having a 'Display Name' element in a picklist is for it to be used in a selection list to the user. Why is there no ability and the default 'Name' element is used instead. This makes no sense.

Anonymous · ‎11-07-2018

Let's add a feature that preserve CDS row change history. It could be enabled at an entity or field level to retain history similar to how Version History works in SharePoint documents. This would allow administrators to revert a row that was changed/deleted to a particular point in time. The current workaround is to create a Microsoft Flow to pull data to another entity (with manual editing of the data), or restore an entire CDS backup (potentially losing other changed data). An example of how this works in SharePoint lists: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/view-the-version-history-of-an-item-or-file-in-a-list-or-library-53262060-5092-424d-a50b-c798b0ec32b1 Another example of how this is provided as a feature in Snowflake data warehouse: https://docs.snowflake.net/manuals/user-guide/data-time-travel.html

muzammilhussain · ‎05-16-2019

Wondering, if there is any timeline for Capture Pen Input / Image to SharePoint out of the box? In 2019, it is critical for modern apps especially mobile apps handle signature (Pen Input) / Images to have solid integration with at least SharePoint and other data sources. As far as I know, PowerApps' camera control to SharePoint list can be done through Flow, utilizing dataUriToBinary function. On the other hand "Image" controls and "Pen Input" control are not easy to handle to upload the image to SharePoint. i.e. need to create a custom connector, API and swagger file to achieve it. I would like to upload Pen Input to SharePoint as an image, but no luck. Is there a third party or Flow template and PowerApps connector for this functionality? instead, have to hack and create one.

esoPowerUser · ‎08-07-2019

I received an answer that The 'EntityName (Views)' is not supported within Dropdown box when using PowerApps/ CDS/ Dynamics 365. I think it would have been nice to have the possibility to make the EntityName (Views) available as list so the user can for example select a view in a dropdown which a gallery reuses in Filter( [datasource], [Entity view] ) ? Thanks. ( Original question : https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Common-Data-Service-for-Apps/Possible-to-list-Entity-Views-in-a-dropdown-using-PowerApps-CDS/td-p/335093 )

Toshi · ‎10-27-2019

CDS raises 0x80072322 error when importing over 6k records into PowerApps (Dynamics 365) CDS via dataflows as following. This behavior is described https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/common-data-service/api-limits , though dataflows cannot handle this error becuase it does not have error handling mechanism. Please give us workaround. Error Message: {"error":{"code":"0x80072322","message":"Number of requests exceeded the limit of 6000 over time window of 300 seconds.","innererror":{"message":"Number of requests exceeded the limit of 6000 over time window of 300 seconds.","type":"Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.Throttling.ThrottlingRateLimitExceededException`1[[Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.ODataV4.Throttling.ThrottleKey, Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35]]","stacktrace":" at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.ODataV4.Throttling.ODataThrottlingHandler.<ThrottleBurstRequestAsync>d__9.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.ODataV4.Throttling.ODataThrottlingHandler.<ThrottleRequestAsync>d__8.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.ODataV4.Throttling.ODataThrottlingHandler.<>c__DisplayClass7_0.<<SendAsync>b__0>d.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Microsoft.PowerApps.CoreFramework.ActivityLoggerExtensions.<ExecuteAsync>d__11`1.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Microsoft.Xrm.Telemetry.XrmTelemetryExtensions.<ExecuteAsync>d__6`1.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.ODataV4.Throttling.ODataThrottlingHandler.<SendAsync>d__7.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at System.Web.Http.HttpServer.<SendAsync>d__0.MoveNext()"}}}

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Function to retrieve App ID

Linking Contact Record to Existing Account Record during CDS Dataflow Import

Sort Multi Select Option Set in combo-box from CDS

Show picture on sharepoint image list

Recurring events with SharePoint calendar

Entity Relationship Diagram for CDS

Can not Rename Default Environment After CDS Upgrade

A must, not just an idea: Reconsider Model-Driven Pricing Plan

Make it possible to add connections to solutions

PowerApps display the wrong field for picklists

About Excel Online Linkage Function of Model Driven Application

Support the ability to import data into a lookup field via CDS Data Integration

enable entities for mobile offline in Model-Driven App in CDS environments

Auto-Number type column

ALM and DevOps support for PowerApps Portals

Use 'Display Name' in dropdown list

CDS row-level time travel version history backups

Capture Image and Pen Input and upload to SharePoint

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Avoidance 0x80072322 error

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