A while back, I posted something on LinkedIn (URL to post: here) where I shared that the hierarchy control was going to be deprecated soon. The cool thing is that now there is a new Visual Hierarchy experience that looks really nice and has improvements in comparison to the previous…
Category: Model-driven Apps

Enhance your data using AI Prompt columns
This is still in preview, but something that I was waiting for to be introduced for a while: using AI Prompt columns in your tables. In this blog, I will demonstrate two use cases and how to create your own: AI Prompting for SWOT Analysis When you work in sales,…

Single SharePoint document storage place across sales process
Let’s start with the fact that I am not a SharePoint “Guru,” so I still need to learn a lot in that area. I wanted to have a single SharePoint document storage place for the sales process of Padel Vamos. The difficulties I found when working with SharePoint are the…

Deprecation of smart email address validation
Microsoft shared that the email address validation for columns will be deprecated as of the 31st of July 2025. This feature is still in preview as of today, and based on what I found, this was introduced in Q3 or Q4 of 2023 and has been in preview since then….

Slow performance on lookup columns with big datasets?
When working with big datasets within a model-driven app, it can be a very frustrating thing, the performance on lookup columns when the dataset is big. Examples of these could be Accounts, Contacts, Products, or other cases, of course, depending on the business you are operating in. When I receive…

Clever or not? Updating data using Excel
One of the most popular tools that people use and find convenient is Microsoft Excel. I have been part of so many conversations where we had discussions about being able to export to Excel (or not). Updating data using Excel can be tricky, if you don’t use it for the…

Activate a previous quote revision, that easy!
You have perhaps faced this in the past, you are working with a client on a quote. Creating multiple revisions that go back and forward, and then the client gives approval on revision 2 😅, which is closed already. Now you likely don’t want to rebuild revision 2 with the…

Enable security roles on templates is now available
We probably all have seen this occasionally, you are working in an area on the platform that you know, and you all of a sudden see a new button or something else that you are pretty sure was not there before. This week I spotted a new button to enable…

Reopen a won quote, as simple as that?
On the opportunity record, this functionality has already existed for a long time, and I have had lots of requests from colleagues who were asking, “Can I reopen a won quote? ” because the customer came back to us, and now I need to make a few minor changes to…

Finally there, hide a choice column value, or not?
Some of you still probably know them as option sets, but nowadays they are called Choice columns, and Microsoft has recently released functionality to hide the choice column values. But the question is, is it working like we think it is or not? I have seen some threads on the…