If you live in Mexico or the United Kingdom you may have noticed that Canvas apps don’t quite get the international settings right. We have lacked a consistent map of languages and regions across the Studio, the web player, and the mobile players. With the release coming next week (v3.19032) we have fixed this. As…
» Подробнее Canvas app authors have new tools for working with Common Data Service for Apps relationships: Relate and Unrelate functions. Many-to-Many relationships Since December, you have been able to read Many-to-Many relationships using the experimental and then preview CDS connector. But it has been impossible to relate or unrelate two records and the join table is…
» Подробнее Some big news! Or at least much bigger news. Canvas app SaveData and LoadData functions are now only limited by the amount of available app memory and local storage on a device. The previous limit of a few megabytes no longer applies. This is a huge improvement that will increase the stability of any app that…
» Подробнее For regular readers of this blog, you may recall a blog post by Carlos Figueira on working with SQL server time values. In it, Carlos used the Mid, Find, Substitute, and other functions to parse an ISO 8601 duration string such as “PT2H1M39S” which represents 2 hours, 1 minute, and 39 seconds. Carlos’ solution works great…
» Подробнее For the last few months we have been rolling out new features for Canvas apps when connected to the Common Data Service for Apps: One-to-Many relationships Option sets Many-to-Many relationships Aggregate delegation We have been doing this work under an Experimental switch, off by default for all apps: Thank you for playing with these features and…
» Подробнее Sum, Min, Max, and Average functions in Canvas apps are aggregate functions that can reduce a large amount of data down to a single value. For example, Average could be used to find the average age of a class of students using Average( Students, Age ). These functions can also be used with the Filter function…
» Подробнее We continue to expand our Canvas support for the Common Data Service for Apps, on the road to CDS + Canvas = Awesome. With this installment we have refined how Option Sets and Two Option data types work and have added support for Many-to-Many relationships. These features are available now with the CDS Experimental Connector. …
» Подробнее For those who work with primary and foreign keys on CDS and SQL Server, we have added GUID as a first class data type. Although not common, you may want to beat the rush and start updating any formulas that use literal GUID strings.
» Подробнее Have you noticed that when you create a custom field in the Common Data Service for Apps that all the fields are all prefixed with cr5ca_ or some other random string and spaces are stripped? …
» Подробнее Over the summer we made it easy to walk Many-to-One relationships. With a single dot you can walk across a relationship from one entity to another. First(Orders).Customer.Name is all that…
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