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Request With the introduction of "Custom pages" in model-driven apps, it would be great if developers had the ability to hide the global "Advanced filter"-button - either as a setting on a "per entity"-basis (preferably), "per app"-basis, or "environment"-basis.   Reason We would like to restrict the user from interacting with tables/entities, which should only be accessible from a "Custom page" or embedded canvas app.   AS-IS / current functionality Users have the ability to access model-driven views and forms of all entities through the global "Advanced find"-button. This potentially leads to compliance violation scenarios, in which users are allowed to interact with data in an unintended way (i.e. outside the "rules" that a developer have otherwise defined within a custom page or embedded canvas app). ... View more

With the introduction of "Custom pages" in model-driven apps, it would be awesome if we could define global variables that could be shared between the individual custom pages.   The ultimate feature would be one which: ... allows to the variables to be initialized when the model-driven app is opened (i.e. something similar to the "OnStart"-event in a Canvas-app). ... allows the variables to be referenced and updated using Power Fx on the various custom pages.     ... View more

Some users are currently not automatically provisioned into the Dataverse environment, as described in the following public information. In order to provision users, additional processing by the administrator or Just-in-time (JIT) user provisioning is required. We recommend that you improve this feature immediately, as it is useful for all users to be automatically provisioned into the Dataverse environment, regardless of the user's license.   Title : User is missing from environment despite meeting all requirements URL : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/troubleshooting-user-needs-read-write-access-organization#user-is-missing-from-environment-despite-meeting-all-requirements ... View more

When you make role changes to users in your environment, or when you add additional paid licenses to your environment, it can take up to 24 hours for the changes to take effect. I want you to shorten the time until it is changed. ... View more

I have received the following email. The screenshot is in Japanese, but the content is about Dataverse exceeding capacity. Since I only use the Power Platform plan included in Office 365, I do not want to receive such emails in the future. For those who only use the Power Platform products with Office 365, I don't think this email is necessary, so please consider implementing a function that allows us to choose whether or not to receive it as soon as possible. Thank you, <the content of the email> Database is running out of space As of April 12, 2021 0:00:26 UTC, your tenant is using 100% of the available storage capacity of the Database (3.55GB/0MB used). Please take immediate action and continue to operate without interruption. What happened? Your tenant is using nearly all of your Microsoft Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service) capacity. Dataverse storage for tenants includes all types of environments except trial, preview, support, and developer. The most common cause of capacity loss is applications using the increased amount of storage. Find out more about what happens when you exceed your storage capacity. How do I fix it? Review the report on storage space usage. Reduce the amount of storage space you use by deleting or erasing different types of information. Find out how to add capacity and purchase it for your organization. Troubleshooting Find out where storage is being used throughout your environment.   ... View more

The decimal field type only lets you use values between -100 million and 100 million.   This is way too small for the data we want to import - any financial reporting solution will find this limit difficult to work work.   Please increase the size of this column type to be in the 10s or even 100 billions range. ... View more

As an owner of tables in Dataverse for Teams I want to toggle on/off visibility so end-users cannot directly access selected tables.   Scenario: Powerapps with Teams using Dataverse for Teams as data source. A table in Dataverse for Teams contains user information and should not be accessed by other users/members. Filters are applied in Powerapps making the app compliant but direct access to the data source remains making proposed business solution non-compliant in terms of GDPR and data privacy. (Restrict user access/permissions to tables will not resolve the case but instead break the app)   Many thanks! ... View more

The deprecated Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement connector had the ability to select the organization on which the operation is being performed. The new Dataverse connector which is supposed to replace the old connector does not support selection of the organization and does the operation on the current org only. This means the new connector cannot be used for any type of integration scenario where we would need to perform any operation on a dataverse instance other than the default one.   This is a serious regression in functionality which makes the entire Power Automate platform now incapable of acting as an integration platform for 2 different dynamics organizations (or any between any other connector and non default dynamics org) ... View more

Ability to create a sandbox environment copy with randomized or a date range of partial data instead of Full Data or No Data. This will help with online sandbox storage consideration and minimize nonvalue add administrative overhead to create bulk deletion jobs post copy. Also, post bulk deletion jobs can take weeks or months to reduce a large database/CDS. This will also allow sandbox environment data to be more current versus working and validating processes against stale data. Loading/importing sample data is not an ideal solution for such scenarios as email to case, sharing data to access teams, and testing cascading relationships.    Another challenge with bulk deleting data post copy is due to the temporary overage of online/CDS storage, another instance copy cannot be performed until the CDS storage is back within available capacity. This negatively impacts the ability to process a support instance copy for MS support since an error prompt stats no available capacity to process a support instance copy.   This is a similar request posted in prior Ideas post: https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=43f715b5-8a01-ea11-b862-0003ff68edfa ... View more

When migrating a solution to another environment or another tenant using environment variables, in Power Apps applications that define environment variables (both sites and lists) as data sources, by changing the internal data of environment variables, it is convenient because you can change the data source of the app without editing the inside of the app.   However, if the data source is updated to the latest state on the edit screen of the application in this condition, information about the token held as the internal data of the application and the data source of the migration source (URL, data source name, GUID, etc.) will result in an error.   However, despite the error, the data source information is over-ridded (confirmed by the internal code of the application) by the internal information of environment variables (two types). The behavior of the application (Data create, edit, delete, etc.) works fine, and the application is migrated in a state where it functions without problems.   We have tried the above behavior with various accounts and tenants, but all have the same behavior, and it is the current expected behavior that an error occurs.   Even though it is used by the recommended method, the error cannot be removed, so we think that the situation must be improved immediately. For example, you can think of various methods such as implementing a mechanism that automatically deletes the data source information of the migration source at the time of export, or implementing a mechanism that filters and removes the information of the relevant part at the time of import and then imports. Therefore, please make improvements to quickly overcome the current situation where errors occurs. ... View more

Background The purpose of an embedded canvas app is to have a low code/no code solution to custom UI components in model-driven forms instead of building something completely custom with HTML or PCF. To have a seamless experience for end-users, the embedded canvas apps should be styled the same as model-driven forms and be transparent that there another app within the model-driven form . The embedded canvas app is designed to be responsive irrespective of the device. Hence when viewed on larger screens, all the controls fit in the screen and the scrollbar is not required and when viewed on smaller screens such as laptops, scrollbar must appear only to show the controls that are not visible in the screen.    Problem and Feature Request Presently on larger screens, an unwanted vertical scrollbar appears introducing a large chunk of white space within the canvas app which creates a confusion for the user having to scroll and check if there are more controls on the form and defeats the purpose of having a responsive embedded canvas app. The embedded canvas app and/or model-driven form should remove and adjust the height to the embedded app and scale accordingly. Example:   Also if we have some model-driven form fields/columns/attributes below the canvas app, then this would give an horrible user experience since the user will have to scroll through all the white space to reach the field:   The amount white space added is huge and cannot be ignored since it spoils the UI. Similar is the case in smaller screens as well. If the users needs: to scroll to view the whole content embedded app when there's space on the model-driven form or app has redundant scroll bars and/or needs to scroll below the embedded app to enter the data then it defeats the purpose of embedded canvas apps and would better to revert to a custom HTML or PCF control. ... View more

It would be awesome if we could call some on-prem endpoints through the data gateway form a Dataverse for Teams App. Please support custom connectors in Dataverse for Teams. ... View more

Dataverse for Teams is great. It helps us to leverage the power of a real database (and more) for the data we store. However, when it comes to automated deployment or general maintenance of D4T apps, you always need to do it manually since there is no/limited API available, which ultimately may lead to errors. Using CI/CD in an enterprise environment is crucial. That is the only thing that currently keeps us from using D4T intensively.   With this idea, I suggest enabling APIs for D4T or offering some DevOps actions with which we could make use of a professional deployment/maintenance of D4T apps.  ... View more

After adding a new Subarea in the new "Modern App Designer", only way to move the location of the subarea is to use "Move Up" or "Move Down". This is very time consuming and having a drag and drop feature helps a lot. ... View more

I set some columns to be required columns on Dataverse. 'Required' worked well, except for lookup columns. There are dropdown box for column requirement options even when I make new lookup columns. However, when I tried to create a new record on Power Apps using Patch or Collect function, record without required data in lookup columns was able to accepted without any error. Thus I need to see if there are any blank for these columns on Power Apps so far. I appreciate if Dataverse itself would reject a new record with blank in required lookup columns. ... View more

Currently, the only way for users to add columns is to Open Advanced Find (which moves them out of Unified Interface) and use the very old and cumbersome way to add a column to a view which is not intuitive (e.g. rearranging, resizing takes multiple attempts before it looks right). Especially for ad-hoc adjustments (e.g. I quickly want to add one more column, just temporarily) this is cumbersome and not intuitive. The new view editor in PowerApps is nice, but only available for Admins.    Please add a feature to add columns ad-hoc to any view and to rearrange them. If the user made a change, add the same asterisk (*) to the view name (the same way it is added when the user changes the filters in the new filter pane). Then allow users to save the changed columns and filters as a new view from the ribbon via  "Save as new view" command.  Together with the new filter pane, this would eliminate the need for Advanced Find and provide a more streamlined unified interface experience. See quick mockup below.    ##       ... View more

It would be a great enhancement if images in a Dataverse field with the file column type Image are available for offline usage as well. And if an user can upload a new image offline that will be synced when going online.   Thanks! ... View more

To Microsoft: you have an army of super developers, if Microsoft would just focus a small set of resources to enhance the user experience by adding functionalities like this one by providing out-of-the-box controls/components, PowerApps would rule.   I hope you could consider to have the drag-and-drop functionality for Documents with SharePoint integration.   It would enable model-driven apps to drag-and-drop files easily, and also while using the Dynamics 365 App for Outlook. This would make super easy for users to drag-and-drop files from the windows file explorer -or- an email to the model-driven app interface and store the files in the connected SharePoint in the back... See screenshots below for reference.   From Windows File Explorer to a model-driven app; (related) Documents control with integration to SharePoint...   From the Outlook inbox - email attachment to the model-driven app through Dynamics 365 App for Outlook.   Thank you for your cosideration. Best, cepjc   ... View more

If the user converts an existing appointment to a recurring appointment, the system creates the recurring appointments and delete the existing appointment. If the user does not have the delete privilege for the activity (appointment), the conversion fails with the error about missing the delete privilege of the activity (appointment). Such action as deleting the original Appointment in AddRecurrenceRequest should be handled by the elevated SYSTEM account instead of deleting with the initiating user's context. ... View more