Timo Pertilä wrote an excellent series of blogs on how to create Dynamic Table in canvas app. As it was in Finnish I have the third part of the series converted for you. I encourage you to read rest of the parts as well.
If you are working with a client that has a requirement to migrate into Power Platform then look into Power Accelerate application that provides an easy way to move your legacy solutions into Power Platform. The application can create CDS solutions from an excel, SQL or even from screenshots.
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Since Dynamics CRM 2013 we’ve been able to create our own APIs within the XRM framework using the Custom Action process type. Recently a new option appeared in the maker portal called Custom APIs which sounded very similar, so Mark thought to take a look.
Currently, we need to create http requests to retrieve the metadata of the entity or attributes of any entity. But now, CDS introduced a Web API method which helps you retrieve any entity metadata easily without creating any http requests.
Josh encountered an issue when trying to filter a file by filename in SharePoint. As you need SharePoint file id which can be challenging he explains how to achieve this in his blog post.
A control that implements cytoscape.js network graph library. Cytoscape.js is a highly configurable and flexible library for visualizing network graphs.
The most common use case to export CDS data to an external database is to have more control over the data (without going through API route) with the ability to run analytics. Nishant shows us what are the various ways of doing that.
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