Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Library

Scenario: There are times when you want to delete an entity from target entity list and when you do so, you face an error message which does not tell you where exactly the entity has been used.  "Entity cannot be deleted while dependent Entities for the processing group exist. Delete dependent Entities for a processing group and try again. " Solution: Browse the environment by appending this part  /?mi=SysTableBrowser&TableName=DMFDefinitionGroupEntity&cmp=USMF   at the end.  For example; if the environment URL is  https://daxture.sandbox.operations.dynamics.com then the complete URL will be https://daxture.sandbox.operations.dynamics.com/?mi=SysTableBrowser&TableName=DMFDefinitionGroupEntity&cmp=USMF Filter for Entity and it will give you the DefinitionGroup where the entity has been added or used in data management import/export projects. Get the DefinitionGroup name and search in the export/import projects under data management and either del...

Find which data entity is obsolete after every new update. Here are the steps. For example; Customers V2 data entity is obsolete with version 8.0 For developers: Type the below in the metadata search in VSTS: type:dataentityview property:isobsolete=yes

If you created a new data entity and it's not visible in your data management entity list.  Open Data Management workspace -> Framework parameters -> Entity Settings and hit the "Refresh Entity List" button