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Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Dataverse — designed, governed and shipped for production.
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In many organizations, senior employees, department heads, managers, or other employees with defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are required to periodically update their KPI records.
Rajiv Kumar·Sep 18, 2026·7 min read
A PCF component is real code inside a low-code app, with a defined lifecycle and a real build pipeline. This covers the manifest, the lifecycle methods that trip people up, and the honest question of whether you should write one at all.
Rajiv Kumar·Jun 3, 2026·14 min read
Power Pages puts Dataverse on the public internet. Table permissions and web roles are the entire access model — not page visibility, not hidden links — and understanding how a permission is scoped is what separates a safe site from an exposed one.
Rajiv Kumar·May 14, 2026·6 min read
Canvas and model-driven apps are not two ways to build the same thing. One starts from a screen, the other starts from a schema — and that difference determines what each one is cheap and expensive to change later.
Rajiv Kumar·Apr 22, 2026·7 min read
A dataset that refreshes on your machine and fails in the service is failing for a structural reason, not a random one. This walks the five causes that account for most of them, and what to check for each.
Rajiv Kumar·Mar 11, 2026·6 min read
When a project has a large number of tasks, the challenge is not creating the tasks. The challenge is getting the right summary of those tasks before the meeting.
Rajiv Kumar·Feb 20, 2026·12 min read
The delegation warning looks like performance advice. It is not. A non-delegable filter evaluates the first 500 records and reports on those, so searches miss records that exist and totals are quietly wrong.
Rajiv Kumar·Jan 13, 2025·12 min read
Dataverse licensing has two independent parts: who is allowed to use it, and how much capacity the tenant holds. Understanding the shape of each is what stops a design becoming expensive later — and it stays true when the numbers change.
Rajiv Kumar·Jan 13, 2025·5 min read
Power Platform DLP sorts connectors into Business, Non-business and Blocked, then prevents combining across groups. Here is how to build a policy people follow rather than route around.
Rajiv Kumar·Apr 17, 2024·4 min read
Adding comments to a record in a canvas app is a common requirement and a good illustration of delegation, concurrency and refresh. The straightforward version is subtly wrong in three ways, all of which appear only once real data arrives.
Rajiv Kumar·Jan 3, 2024·5 min read
