The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Dataverse: Always Bring Some Code
Friday, Aug 8
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Room 105
Description
Arthur Dev was having a perfectly normal day in the Dataverse—until he realized he wasn’t actually in control. His workflows were sluggish. His users were confused. His UI was an eyesore. And worst of all… his beautiful, well-intentioned processes were completely, hopelessly broken.
It started with a simple automation. Nothing fancy, just a little logic to make things easier. But then came the limitations, the restrictions, the unexplainable errors buried in documentation that might as well have been written in Vogon poetry. If Arthur wanted Dataverse to actually do what he needed, he’d have to go deeper—writing plugins to inject logic and override the constraints.
For a while, things seemed better. Until they weren’t. Plugins had their own unspoken rules, depth limits, and recursive nightmares. Every time Arthur thought he had fixed one problem, another reared its head. It was as if the system was designed to fight back.
That’s when he realized: sometimes, you have to break free entirely. By tapping into the mysterious power of Azure Functions and external integrations, Arthur could bend the rules of Dataverse itself, executing logic outside its constraints. Suddenly, the impossible became possible.
He had finally done it. He had escaped.
Or so he thought.
Because while Arthur’s solutions worked, nobody actually noticed. His users, blissfully unaware of the elegant code holding everything together, ignored critical data, misclicked important fields, and generally behaved as though nothing had changed at all. It was as if his hard work had been wrapped in an invisibility field, making it someone else’s problem.
That’s when it hit him.
His journey wasn’t just about logic or integration—it was about experience. If he wanted his solutions to matter, he needed to break through the illusion of invisibility, enhancing the user interface itself. He needed… a better way to see the Dataverse.
With PCF components, Arthur tore through the barriers of bad UI, crafting custom interfaces that refused to be ignored. Finally, his data was clear. His processes were intuitive. His users actually understood what was happening.
And as he stepped back, exhausted but victorious, he realized the greatest lesson of all:
A developer should never go anywhere without their towel.
Or, in this case—their code.
If you’ve ever felt like your Dataverse solutions are held together with duct tape and wishes, don’t panic—join us for a fast-paced, entertaining, and highly practical deep dive into the real power of pro-code development in Dataverse!
It started with a simple automation. Nothing fancy, just a little logic to make things easier. But then came the limitations, the restrictions, the unexplainable errors buried in documentation that might as well have been written in Vogon poetry. If Arthur wanted Dataverse to actually do what he needed, he’d have to go deeper—writing plugins to inject logic and override the constraints.
For a while, things seemed better. Until they weren’t. Plugins had their own unspoken rules, depth limits, and recursive nightmares. Every time Arthur thought he had fixed one problem, another reared its head. It was as if the system was designed to fight back.
That’s when he realized: sometimes, you have to break free entirely. By tapping into the mysterious power of Azure Functions and external integrations, Arthur could bend the rules of Dataverse itself, executing logic outside its constraints. Suddenly, the impossible became possible.
He had finally done it. He had escaped.
Or so he thought.
Because while Arthur’s solutions worked, nobody actually noticed. His users, blissfully unaware of the elegant code holding everything together, ignored critical data, misclicked important fields, and generally behaved as though nothing had changed at all. It was as if his hard work had been wrapped in an invisibility field, making it someone else’s problem.
That’s when it hit him.
His journey wasn’t just about logic or integration—it was about experience. If he wanted his solutions to matter, he needed to break through the illusion of invisibility, enhancing the user interface itself. He needed… a better way to see the Dataverse.
With PCF components, Arthur tore through the barriers of bad UI, crafting custom interfaces that refused to be ignored. Finally, his data was clear. His processes were intuitive. His users actually understood what was happening.
And as he stepped back, exhausted but victorious, he realized the greatest lesson of all:
A developer should never go anywhere without their towel.
Or, in this case—their code.
If you’ve ever felt like your Dataverse solutions are held together with duct tape and wishes, don’t panic—join us for a fast-paced, entertaining, and highly practical deep dive into the real power of pro-code development in Dataverse!
