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Joe Gill

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Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

Git Commit triggered by a Pipeline Deployment

The out of the box ALM features in the Power Platform have improved significantly in recent years. We now have Pipelines in Power Platform for automating and tracking deployments and Git integration…

📅 1 July 2026 👁 20 views ↗ Joe Gill
Azure

Pipelines – Download Solutions

Power Platform Pipelines are the recommended way for makers to follow good ALM practices when deploying solutions. (Yes I know pro developers prefer Azure DevOps!) Using pipelines ensures the same solution is…

📅 19 January 2026 👁 3 views ↗ Joe Gill
Azure

Dataverse Git Integration – Ghost Updates

I’ve recently been exploring Dataverse Git Integration, a feature that enables Power Platform developers to source control their solutions and objects in a Azure DevOps Git Repository. I was initially very impressed…

📅 22 October 2025 👁 9 views ↗ Joe Gill
Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

Power Apps – Real Time Updates

Power Apps and Power Pages don’t support receiving information in real time. Instead, they rely on polling either through a timer or by requiring users to manually refresh their screens. In both…

📅 27 August 2025 👁 8 views ↗ Joe Gill
Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

Power Apps – Outlook Deep Linking

A common request in Power Apps is the ability to schedule appointments similarly to how it’s done in Outlook. Power Apps does have a built-in calendar view to display date-related records, which…

📅 7 August 2025 👁 10 views ↗ Joe Gill
Azure

Dataverse Git Integration – Rollback

Dataverse Git Integration enables you to use Azure DevOps for source control of your Power Platform solutions. One key advantage of using source control is the ability to roll back changes when…

📅 1 July 2025 👁 5 views ↗ Joe Gill
Azure

Dataverse SQL – Custom API

In a previous post I covered how to create an Azure Function to run Dataverse SQL queries if SQL traffic is blocked on your network. This post is a variation on that…

📅 23 March 2025 👁 8 views ↗ Joe Gill
Azure

Dataverse SQL – Azure Function

Dataverse provides a TDS, Tabular Data Stream, endpoint that allows you to query your data using SQL. This feature is especially useful for handling complex data queries or querying large volumes of…

📅 17 February 2025 👁 5 views ↗ Joe Gill
Azure

ADF – Set Dataverse Owner

Updating the owner column for a table in Dataverse from ADF, Azure Data Factory, can be a little confusing. Dataverse allows you to establish relationships between tables as lookup columns. To update…

📅 13 January 2025 👁 25 views ↗ Joe Gill
Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

PowerDocu – Power Platform Documentation

At a recent #PowerPlatformIreland meetup a couple of people suggested I have look at PowerDocu which is a free open-source tool for createing Power Platform documentation. It was written by Rene Modery…

📅 16 December 2024 👁 9 views ↗ Joe Gill