Relate records in Many-to-Many relationships
Canvas app authors have new tools for working with Common Data Service for Apps relationships: Relate and Unrelate functions.
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SaveData and LoadData Unleashed
Some big news! Or at least much bigger news. -
More Regular Expressions for Canvas apps
For regular readers of this blog, you may recall a blog post by Carlos Figueira on working with SQL server time values. -
New CDS capabilities for Canvas apps enter Preview
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 […] -
Delegation of Aggregate functions for CDS
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. -
Option Sets and Many-to-Many Relationships for Canvas apps
We continue to expand our Canvas support for the Common Data Service for Apps, on the road to CDS + Canvas = Awesome. -
Fun with GUIDs!
For those who work with primary and foreign keys on CDS and SQL Server, we have added GUID as a first class data type. -
Display names enter Preview for Canvas apps
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? … -
One-to-Many Relationships for Canvas apps
Over the summer we made it easy to walk Many-to-One relationships. -
Enjoy faster startup times with the new Concurrent function
Get your app started faster by preloading collections in parallel with the new Concurrent function. -
ShowError function changes its name to Notify as it learns some new tricks
A quick note. A few months ago we introduced a new ShowError function that could display a banner error message. -
New Experimental Feature: Error Handling and Writing Null values to databases
You can now capture errors, display custom error notifications, and most importantly write Null values to databases.