Reactivate a Business Process Flow and Jump to a Target Stage with a Pre-Operation Plug-in

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Problem statement ↴
Records previously flagged as Ineligible (statecode = Inactive) are later re-activated by users. Their associated Business Process Flow rows remain inactive and stuck on an early stage.

Edit related table records directly from another table’s main form

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There are multiple ways that you can work with related table records on a table form within Power Apps. For example, you can include related tables in read-only mode with a quick view form and create or edit a record using a main form in a dialog.

Another way you can work with related table records is by adding a form component control to another table's main form. The form component control lets users edit information of a related table record directly from another table’s form.

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SQL ErrorCode: -2146232060

SQL Number: 8115

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 Issue Overview

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