Category: Miscellaneous

Power Platform Requests usage…check it out in a no code way now in Admin Center(Preview)

Hi Folks,

As a Power Platform Admin/Consultant…did you often worry about your Power Platform Request Limits and usage left…? Do you receive warning messages from Microsoft regarding the usage of your database exceeded..? Want to see what are Custom Plugin Errors encountered while using your Model Driven App targeting Dataverse….then want to consolidate them and forward to your team to look into the issues without much efforts….then you were in the right place…

Just login with your credentials to admin page https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/.

Expand Resources to the left…to find the Capacity menu

If you just want to know only the data usage, then you can ahead and click on Download as shown above to get one.

Want to get in depth analysis…then click on Details as highlighted in the same snap above.

This page shows your Database usage/File usage and respective categorizations by table as below..

These are reports which I was able to extract from my trial environment, however all the reports were not available currently in my region. Yes, this is expected as this feature is still in preview and not recommended for Production Projects as of now. Definitely in the future…

Note:

  1. Many people including me till now thought that Plugins or at least any operation performed within Model Driven app will not be counted for the API request limits. But…
  2. If the requests are making CRUD, assign, or share–type requests, they’ll count except internal requests. For classic workflows, this includes actions such as checking conditions, starting child workflows, or stopping workflows.
  3. You should never use any third party tools for Integration whenever you were facing any request limit issues.
  4. Request limits are applied differently for licensed users and Non-licensed users.
  5. You can add more capacity to any of your products by assigning your environment in the manage addons page.

Hope you found this post helpful…

Cheers,

PMDY

Opening a Custom page to capture entity details for Case Rejection in Model Driven Apps

Hi Folks,

In this blog post, I will talk about implementing a custom page for your implementations.

Here in our use case, customer want to see a pop up dialog box where they can reject the cases from a button and when reject is clicked, there should be a dialog box to capture the reject reason and comments and update them back to the record. So for this we had to implement a custom page and called from a Ribbon button. If you just want to show an alert, you can very easily implement using JavaScript with the help of OOB Alert Dialog…

Xrm.Navigation.openAlertDialog(alertStrings,alertOptions).then(closeCallback,errorCallback);

But in case as user want to update entity details like optionset field, directly from the pop up, you should consider using the approach as we did using a custom page.

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All we have used is JavaScript, Ribbon Workbench and Custom Page…First is to design the custom page in https://make.powerapps.com/

The optionset for Reject Reason is bound to the Reject Reason combo box using the below property.

On the App start, we will set the parameter with what we have supplied from the ribbon on-click function.

On the OnSelect property of the Save button, we can use the below function

Function:

If(IsBlank(RejectReasondrp.Selected) Or IsBlank(txtRemarks.Value),Set(varmsg,"Fill both the values")&&Set(varmsgpopup, true),
Patch(Cases,LookUp(Cases,Case=GUID(CaseId.Text)),{Comments:txtRemarks.Value,'Rejection Reason':RejectReasondrp.Selected.Value}));
If(!IsBlank(RejectReasondrp.Selected) && !IsBlank(txtRemarks.Value),Set(varShowpopup,true),"");
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Here’s the js code for the button OnClick Event…

//On Click of Reject button
onClickOfRejectRibbonButton: function (executionContext) {
"use strict";
var formContext = executionContext;
var recordId = formContext.data.entity.getId();
recordId = recordId.replace("{", "");
recordId = recordId.replace("}", "");
var contactId = formContext.getAttribute("customerid").getValue()[0].id;
contactId = contactId.replace("{", "");
contactId = contactId.replace("}", "");
var pageInput = {
pageType: "custom",
name: "new_custompage_7e429",
entityName: "incident",
recordId: recordId
};
var navigationOptions = {
target: 2,
position: 1,
height: 400,
width: 700,
title: "Case Resolution Confirmation" // Enter Title Of Your Choice
};
//Using navigateTo Client API.
Xrm.Navigation.navigateTo(pageInput, navigationOptions).then(
function success() {
// Run code on success
//formContext.data.refresh();
},
function error() {
// Handle errors
formContext.data.refresh();
}
);
}
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Here the ribbon workbench customization added…

Finally publish the customizations and add the custom page to the model driven app…don’t forget to add this to your app as this mandatory to get the authorization to your page as below, else you see below error in developer tools of your browser as below…and no custom page opens up…

That’s it…when a Reject is clicked, you should a see a page as below..

Upon entering the details as above, you will be shown a confirmation screen as below..

Once you click on Close, the selected details will be updated back in the record.

Hope this helps someone implementing custom page for a similar requirement….

Cheers,

PMDY