OVERRIDING THE RETRIEVEMULTIPLE INTEGRATION PATTERN UPDATED FOR UNIFIED CLIENT INTERFACE

 In a previous post in 2017, we looked at how to override the RetrieveMultiple through a plugin to display data in Dynamics 365 / Power Apps. We will now revisit this post to show how to use the same pattern when dealing with Unified Client Interface apps, where the old code didn’t work. This will be useful if you’re running the old code and are migrating to unified interface apps.

Let’s look at the same example as before. We would like to integrate our Retail Sales database with our Accounts in Dynamics 365. We would like to display products that our accounts have ordered. Instead of using out of the box sales entities, we will create our own entity called Retail Sales:

Go to https://make.powerapps.com/ and create a New Entity:

We will call the entity Retail Sale:

Let’s add 2 fields – Product and Amount, and then add a relationship with Account

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