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How to create a contact email column automatically on a form from dataverse

Hello Everyone,

Today i am going to share how to create a contact email column automatically if the table don’t have one.

Let’s gets started.

Login into www.make.powerapps.com

Open the solution and add the new table to it.

Check the “Can have a contact email” box, what it does is Rows in this table can have email addresses(for example, info@gmritsolutions.co.uk) if the table didn’t have an email column, one will be added.

That’s it for today.

I hope this helps.

Malla Reddy(@UK365GUY)
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When to use Elastic Tables(Preview) in Dataverse

Hello Everyone,

Today i am going to show what is use of the Elastic Tables(Preview) in Dataverse.

Let’s gets started.

What are Elastic Tables in Dataverse?

Elastic table is managed by Microsoft Dataverse. Elastic table have same features as standard tables in Dataverse but they have a unique features and capabilities powered by Azure Cosmos DB.

Note: Elastic table data storage consumption come under the Dataverse database capacity use.

So what is the purpose of the Elastic tables?

Elastic tables are designed to handle large volume of data in real time. By using the elastic table we can import large volume of data and store analyze it without scalability, latency or any performance issues.

Elastic tables supports:

CRUD Operations(create, read, update, delete) including API Multiple operations bulk deletion and requests from plug-ins.

Relationships: One to many and many to one.

Record ownership, change tracking, auditing, mobile offline and Dataverse search.

Security features support:

When creating elastic table you can set: Either user or organisation owned, field level security.

When to use Elastic tables and other information you can click here

Thats it for today.

I hope this helps.

Malla Reddy(@UK365GUY)
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{How to} add canvas app to Microsoft Teams

Hello Everyone,

Today i am going to show how to add your canvas app to Microsoft Teams.

Lets gets started.

Login into www.make.powerapps.com

Click on the apps and then select the app you want to add to Microsoft Teams, click on “…” you will see the add to teams.

Click on the add to teams..

Then your App will appear on Microsoft Teams and click add:

You can add either to your teams channel or chat.

As an example i have selected as add to the teams and in order to create a tab, you need to select the organisation and click on “set up tab”.

Then new pop up will appear and click on the save button.

New tab “Floor Estimates” will appear on the Microsoft Teams channel.

That’s it for today.

I hope this helps.

Malla Reddy(@uk365guy)
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How to wrap a canvas app to distribute on IoS Andriod or google playstore

Hello Everyone,

Today i am going to show how to share your canvas app on IoS Andriod or Google Play Store.

Lets gets started.

Where do you see this “WRAP” on canvas app?

Login into www.make.powerapps.com

Click on App and if you have created canvas app before then you can see on the middle screen see below screen shot and select the “…” then you will see the WRAP.

What the WRAP Feature does?

It packages one or more canvas apps as a single native mobile app package using step by step wizard.

It lets power app create native mobile versions of your canvas apps as custom branded andriod and iOS Mobile apps.

You can distribute such wrapped native mobile apps to the end users through Microsoft Intune, Microsoft App Center, Google Play or Apple Business Manager or other native distribution methods.

How to wrap a canvas app and what are prerequisites and step by step guide here

Thats it for today.

I hope this helps.
Malla Reddy(@UK365GUY)
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How to activate an Dynamics 365 Environment which is Inactive and about to be deleted by Microsoft

Hello Everyone,

Today i am going to show how to activate the environment which is inactive and about to be deleted.

Lets gets started.

Login into www.admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com

Go to the environments..

You will see this message “Environment Inactive”. Because of no activity.

Environment inactive. which has not been used for while so microsoft disable this environment and later deletes completely.

How to activate this environment ?

As you can see from the above screenshot the “Trigger environment activity”, Then the environment will be activated.

Click on the continue button.

After a few seconds, the environment’s last activity will be updated to today.

Then your environment will be come active.

Thats it for today.

I hope this helps.

Malla Reddy(@UK365GUY)
#365BlogPostsin365Days

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