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Patch in Canvas Apps: The Blank Column That Overwrites a Real Value
Patch writes every column present in the change record, including blanks from empty form cards. How to update only the fields the user actually edited.
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Tutorials and tips for Power Automate, PowerApps, and the broader Power Platform ecosystem.
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Power Automate Trigger Conditions: The Run That Never Appears
A trigger condition that is false does not start a run and does not leave run history. How the expression differs from a Condition action, and how to see the skipped checks.
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Dataverse Filtered Record Ownership: Row-Level Security Without Owners, Teams, or Sharing
Dataverse's filtered record ownership (preview) secures rows by column values such as region or department instead of owner or business unit. How record filters, entity record filters, and security roles fit together, and what the no-owner model gives up.
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Power Platform September 2026 Update: The App-Builder Skill, Agent Plugins, and the Refreshed Model-Driven UI
What matters in Microsoft's September 2026 Power Platform feature update: the model app-builder skill goes GA, the canvas authoring agent plugin goes GA, generative pages embed in forms and reach connectors, model-driven header refresh is GA with display density in preview, and Power Automate gets server-side search.
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Canvas Apps: Concurrent() Is How OnStart Stops Feeling Stuck
Load independent Dataverse and SharePoint calls together in a canvas app, and keep the calls that really do depend on each other out of the same Concurrent.
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Dataverse Triggers in Power Automate: Select Columns or the Flow Wakes Up for Nothing
How Select columns and Filter rows on a Dataverse trigger cut wasted runs, and the row-version mistakes that make a flow miss the change it was built for.
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SharePoint Lists vs Dataverse for Canvas Apps: Pick the Storage, Not the Habit
Delegation limits, relationships, security, and ALM — the practical tradeoffs when a canvas app outgrows a list and when it should not migrate at all.
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Elastic Tables in Dataverse: When Cosmos-Backed Storage Beats Standard Tables
What Dataverse elastic tables are, how TTL, partitioning, and JSON columns work, and how to decide between elastic and standard tables.
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Retry Policies in Power Automate: What Actually Happens When an Action Fails
How Power Automate retry policies work, which errors they cover, how to configure them, and how to keep retries from duplicating side effects.
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Power Apps Collections vs. Dataverse: Where Your App's Data Should Actually Live
Collections feel fast and convenient, so makers overuse them — and ship apps that lose data and break on refresh. Here is when to hold data in memory and when it belongs in Dataverse.
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Resilient Power Automate: Retry Policies and Dead-Letter Patterns
Transient failures are normal in any flow that calls an API. The difference between a flow that self-heals and one that pages you at 2 a.m. is how you handle retries and the failures that stick.
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Dataverse Many-to-Many Relationships: Native, Manual, and When to Use Each
Native N:N relationships are quick to set up and impossible to extend. A manual junction table is more work and far more flexible. Choosing wrong means a painful migration later.