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Clarification on business process flows within a model drive. App

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Am I able to use actions and workflows for model driven apps or is that only reserved for dynamics ? im trying to find the proverbial line in the sand. Also is there a way to associate a record during the process flow? im trying to create a few child records 

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  • Michael E. Gernaey Profile Picture
    53,970 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Hello,

     

    Yes, as long as you have Dataverse (as part of specific licenses) you can, they do not require specifically a D365 license. As for BPO's please see further down where I outline the requirements. 

     

    You of course can also trigger Power Automate Flows, Create Plugins(custom actions and apis), Embed Canvas Apps (just have to validate license) etc. You just can't us the Reserved Entities that are part of Dynamics. You could recreate custom version of them though, even with the same name.

     

    As for Business Process Flows, I just want to validate if you mean the old BPO's of if you plan to use Power Automate? You can do both, but for associating the records, it would be different.

     

    Now for Business Process Flows, you do need a specific license type (and there are options), please see here

    Create a business process flow in Power Apps - Power Automate | Microsoft Learn

    Here are some specifics for BPOs and record association.

    To associate records in Dataverse using a business process flow, you need to create a relationship between the tables that you want to link, and then add the related table as a stage in the business process flow designer. You can also specify the relationship name and the lookup field to use for the association. 


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  • FemaleMarvel365 Profile Picture
    57 on at

    Thank you for your response. I have created the “related” related table as. A stage. I just wasn’t sure if the flow would be smart enough to know I’m creating a child record. It’s currently a look up. Do I have to designate a parent child relationship first vs the typical one to many? what happens if I need multiple child records of the same entity? Say an order with order detail items?

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