Back when I originally looked at Dataverse’s TDS endpoint, one of the things I noticed was that you couldn’t use the Entity Framework reverse engineering tools to access the data. Thankfully, things have changed!
OptionSet Labels in Power BI Reports
If you’ve tried reporting on your Dataverse / Dynamics 365 data using Power BI, you’ll probably have noticed you don’t get the labels associated with any optionset (now “Choice”) fields in your data. There are ways around this such as using the PowerBI OptionSet Assistant solution. In this post I’ll Continue Reading
Using Dates from TDS Endpoint in Power BI Charts
As part of migrating some dashboards to Power BI using the TDS Endpoint I hit a problem getting a chart to show correctly. I needed to show invoices with the values grouped by month. This is simple in a standard Dynamics chart, and when importing the data into Power BI. Continue Reading
Combining data with Azure Data Factory
You can often add more value to your data by combining it with other sources to produce an enriched data set. By keeping large reference datasets out of the main Dataverse database you can dramatically reduce storage costs. You can then combine them as needed using Azure Data Factory.
Visualising CDM Data with Power BI
In my last post I loaded some data from Excel into Azure Data Lake and stored it in the Common Data Model format. Now I want to present that data using Power BI.
Loading Data into Azure Data Lake
Last time I showed how to create a data lake, but how do you get data into it? What format should you store it in?
Exploring the Data Lake
In the world of data technologies, you’ll probably see data lakes appearing more and more often. I’d like to take a closer look at the Azure Data Lake and how it works with the wider Azure data ecosystem.