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Holger Imbery6d ago • 25 min read
Power Platform Governance: A Practitioner's Reference (Part 2)
Summary lede. Part 2 of this two-article reference picks up where last week’s foundations ended....
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 4 min read
Plugin + Azure Function + Service Bus: async integration at scale
A Dataverse row changes. Five downstream systems need to know: an ERP that tracks financials, a...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 4 min read
Publisher prefix in Power Platform: the decision you can't undo
Your publisher prefix ends up in every schema name, every Web API URL, every managed solution file. ...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 4 min read
Polymorphic lookups in Dataverse: hidden cost tutorials skip
Customer lookups that can point to either an account or a contact look tidy on a form. They generate...
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Riccardo Gregori4d ago • 3 min read
PCF's default Fluent UI version is broken... and how to fix it
If you build PCF (Power Apps Component Framework) controls for Dynamics 365 / Power Platform, there'...
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Riccardo Gregori1d ago • 7 min read
Handling Localization in PCF Components: A Practical Walkthrough
When you build a PowerApps Component Framework (PCF) component that will be used across multiple...
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Riccardo Gregori5d ago • 6 min read
Power Pages SPA, local authentication, and the "Private" flag that blocks local development
TL;DR: if you're developing a Power Pages SPA locally with local authentication (not Entra ID) and.....
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Bala Madhusoodhanan4d ago • 4 min read
Prompt Engineering for Automated Evaluation: Making LLMs the Judge in AI Builder Solutions
Intro: Automated evaluation is fast becoming a necessity as AI-driven agents proliferate across...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 9 min read
The Complete Power Platform Engineering Guide: 30 Production Patterns
This is the reference document Sapota's Power Platform team built for itself. Every pattern below...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 3 min read
Environment variables vs connection references in Power Platform
Both exist so the same managed solution can run across Dev, Test, UAT and Prod without editing. They...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 5 min read
Dataverse webhooks to Service Bus: retry and dead-lettering
Dataverse can call a webhook on every table change. Azure Service Bus can accept that webhook and bu...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 4 min read
Canvas app performance: delegation, caching, and lazy patterns
A Canvas app that loads in under two seconds is not an accident. It is the result of specific decisi...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 5 min read
Dataverse virtual tables on SQL: three latency patterns
Virtual tables surface external data inside Dataverse without copying it. The user experience matche...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 5 min read
Alternate keys in Dataverse: when they help vs hurt
Alternate keys let you upsert by a business identifier without looking up the GUID first. They are t...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 4 min read
Dataverse data import: Excel to dataflow migration path
Every Power Platform project starts with someone asking how to get the existing data in. The answer ...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 4 min read
Custom API vs Custom Action vs Azure Function: Dataverse decision
A client needs to expose a "calculate the loyalty rebate for this customer" operation. It reads thre...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 4 min read
Rollup vs calculated columns in Dataverse: the async trap we fell for
A deal desk dashboard showed the running total of opportunities per account. Total amount per accoun...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 5 min read
Model-driven ribbon: Command Designer vs Ribbon Workbench in 2026
Adding a custom button to a model-driven form's command bar used to be a single-tool problem. Ribbon...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 5 min read
Power BI embed in Power Apps: row-level security that works
A Power BI report embedded in a model-driven app looks like part of the app. The user opens their...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 5 min read
Multi-country Dataverse security: business units, teams, and RLS
A Dataverse instance rolling out CRM for a single country with 50 sales reps is a three-week project...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 5 min read
Canvas app delegation: patterns that scale past 2000 rows
Every Canvas maker eventually sees the yellow warning triangle: "Delegation warning. The '...' part....
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 5 min read
Custom connector with OAuth2: three auth pitfalls we debugged
A client uses a third-party logistics API that is not in Power Automate's built-in connector catalog...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 4 min read
Dataverse Web API: FetchXML vs OData patterns that don't time out
The Dataverse Web API has two query dialects. OData is the REST-friendly one that most tutorials use...
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SapotaCorp5d ago • 4 min read
PCF control with React 18 and TypeScript: our project template
The Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) lets you drop a custom React component onto a Dataverse for...
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