Professional Documents
Culture Documents
with
Dataverse
1 Overview Dataverse
4 Security concepts in Dataverse
3 Environments in Dataverse
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OVERVIEW
DATAVERS
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• When in doubt,
User/ Team Organization
chose User/Team
All rows have Row owned by
an owner organization
• Organization is great Supports All or nothing
for reference data access levels access
Lookup
Contact table Choice (gender)
Contact name Account Gender Phone Female
Sally Microsoft --- --- Male
Harry Microsoft --- --- Not specified
Lookups Choices
• Can store other data • Only stores label and value
• You build localization • Localization built-in
• Filter by views and security • Filtered by developer script
• Treated as reference data • Treated as solution component
• Supports inactive state • No built-in way to retire
• UX scales to lots of items • UX works to about 400 items
• Stores as entity reference • Stores as whole number
Calculated Rollup
Calculated on retrieve of row Value stored on row, scheduled
update / on demand
Read only Read only
Row columns and parent columns 1:N only, columns on child rows
Can include rollup columns in Can rollup calculated columns
calculation
• Many-to-many (N:N) is
symmetrical
• Hidden intersect table created
• Two 1:N relationships
• Intersect table cannot be
customized
• Can be used by report desginers and
developers
• https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/
• Unified portal for administrators to manage environments and settings for Power
Apps, Power Automate, and customer engagement apps
The data model is the foundation you are building your solution
on, so take time to make it solid.
• Consider more than one approach to data model
• Use proof of concepts to test ideas
• Take advantage that Dataverse is good in incremental data
modeling
• Build your data model so you can manage it with available
security features
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