Riccardo Gregori articles - 44 total
Arrow Anti-pattern
Who knows me knows how tedious I can become whenever I see basic stuff done wrong, especially on...
Extreme Makeover: Model Driven App edition
If you've ever delivered a Model-Driven App in Microsoft Power Platform, chances are you've heard...
Update currency Exchange Rate in Dataverse... simplified! 😊
When I started working with Dynamics CRM, ages ago, there were 2 topics that were the nightmare of...
Record ownership across Business Units: under the hood
Record ownership across Business Units (aka Matrix data access structure) is a powerful and...
How to: create a Dataverse environment in a specific Azure Region
In my previous post we've seen how to detect the actual Azure Region where a specific Dataverse...
How to: know the actual location of your Dataverse environment
When you create a new Dataverse environment you can peek the Region where your environment will be...
Dataverse internals: where are "security roles for views" saved?
In Power Platform 2025 release wave 1 our dear Microsoft dropped a new (preview) feature that allows...
Dataverse Web Resources - Say Goodbye to CRA, Hello to Vite! 🚀
If you've been building WebResources for Dataverse using React, TypeScript, and Fluent UI, you've...
PACX ⁓ Work with views
Following a request from a friend of mine, Federica, PACX has been extended with a whole new set of...
How to style a PCF like a standard Model Driven App control
After this article I had an interesting exchange with David Rivard on how to manually tweak the style...
React Numeric Input Control
I spent 2 days trying to make it work. I put it here for future reference. import * as React from...
Dataverse Git integration (Preview) - How are solution components saved?
This is the last article (for now) of the series about Dataverse Git integration native capability....
Dataverse Git integration (Preview) - ALM Considerations
In my previous article of the series I've shown my experience with the commit process. While...
Dataverse Git integration (Preview) - The commit process
In my previous article we've seen how to configure Git integration (better be called Azure DevOps...
Dataverse Git integration (Preview) - First look!
Proper application lifecycle management for Dataverse always relied on pro-developer tools such as...
Form-based Dataverse Web Resources with React, Typescript and FluentUI - Part 2
A few months ago I posted this article on how to develop form-based HTML WebResources leveraging my...
PACX ⁓ Projects, aka how to manage scopes
One of the things I like most about PACX is how easy it is to add features when a new need arises...
Virtual PCF Controls are GA... but theming is not!
The Virtual PCF Controls, now generally available (GA), are among the most eagerly awaited features...
Append v/s Append To in Dynamics CRM/Dynamics 365 CE/Dataverse
Let me repost this nice and exhaustive article wrote by Sanjaya Pradhan to explain the difference...
Dataverse internals: where are "security roles for form" saved?
If you want to know where a give security role is used you have to check on: Users having that...
Dataverse Solution Checker doesn't like PCFs
From quite a while I've notices that for any Solution containing PCF components (doesn't matters if...
Power App Maker Portal issue (?) when deleting polymorphic lookups
Today I was stuck in an uncomfortable situation. I wrongly created a polymorphic relationship...
Theme Management for Dataverse Model Driven Apps / Dynamics 365 CE
A clean and intuitive user interface (UI) is key to the successful adoption of any application. In...
PACX ⁓ Init custom tables main form
When I'm working on Model Driven Apps or Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, one of the most annoying...
Dataverse LowCode Plugins Performance Benchmark
In the ever-evolving world of business applications, speed, flexibility, and efficiency are key. For...
Obfuscation IS NOT Security
Many times, I've seen tech leads (me included) working around Dataverse / Dynamics 365 security...
How to (quickly) set Dataverse table icons
This is a "bonus" post on my series about PACX commands to streamline WebResource...
PACX ⁓ WebResource Management Commands - Push
In this post I subtly introduced a few PACX commands created to streamline WebResource development...
PACX ⁓ WebResource Management Commands - Create JS
In this post I subtly introduced a few PACX commands created to streamline WebResource development...
PACX ⁓ WebResource Management Commands - Init
In my previous post I subtly introduced a few PACX commands created to streamline WebResource...