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Business Data Connectivity

I came to a requirement wherein I was supposed to get data from an 3 rd party portal using API’s and then bring them to SharePoint server. The first approach that I finalized was just to make BDC solution that will get data from 3 rd party portal and will deploy it to SharePoint. How to Create BDC solution in SharePoint? I found below link that is having really great description about hot to create and deploy the BDC solution to SharePoint. http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/hung123/creating-business-data-connectivity-service-using-visual-studio-2010/ After creating an POC I came to know that BDC model cannot be deployed on Multi tenant farm. So what can be done next? After some amount of googling I came to know that we can create BDC solution using WCF services also. So I created a WCF service solution that acted as a wrapper that used to fetch data from the portal. We can them publish that service to IIS or Server and use the servic...
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Dataverse Multi Choice Columns in PowerApps

We have been working with PowerApps, PowerApps and Dataverse and now I thought of sharing a few tips to ease your work if you are new to PowerApps + Dataverse as a combination. I will be sharing a few more tips in my upcoming blogs but to get started, Let’s take Multi Choice Columns this time. Unlike SharePoint or any other data source, Dataverse Multi choice columns are different so basically, I cannot go to my PowerApp and directly print selected value in a label. So, this is how you can show multi choice values in label. You need to use concat that allows to concat multiple selection. PowerApps has concat function that takes. Concat function syntax :  Concat (  Table ,  Formula  ) In my case I am trying to render a multi choice column values into a vertical gallery webpart. I have added a label control to a vertical gallery and then added below code.   Concat(ThisItem.ColumnName,Value & "") Hope this helps, Thanks, Keyur
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SharePoint Site Script & Site Design

  H ope you are doing fine and safe in this pandemic situation. I recently came up with an opportunity to work with SharePoint Site Designs. SharePoint Site templates are now replaced with Site designs in Modern Sites.   SharePoint allows us to create JSON schema to apply our custom options that we want to add. Below are the things we can apply using site script. Create a new SharePoint list Define a new site column Define a new content type Add a navigation link Remove a navigation link Apply a theme Set branding properties Set a site logo Join a hub site Install an add-in or solution Register an extension Activate a Feature Trigger a flow Configure regional settings Add users (principals) to SharePoint Groups Manage guest access Let us assume we have a JSON schema created. I am taking below sample from MS documentation for reference.   We will now be adding above JSON schema to SharePoint as Site Script. Below is the command we execute. $site_script = ‘{   ...
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