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Hi all,

We are assessing the PowerApps, Model Driven Apps, as the platform to build our next product offering on. We are coming from a platform that supported both Dynamic Attributes and Extended Entities and I'm wondering what functionality might exist in model driven apps that might be similar or could be considered an alternative.

Dynamic Attributes: We need to be able to have an Entity (e.g. Asset) that has a lot of common attributes (e.g. Asset.SerialNumber), but also supports attributes based on the type of asset it is (e.g. Type=Computer, Computer.CPU). We don't want to have to have a superset of all the attributes all possible Assets might need on the Entity and Form.

Extended Entities: In our old platform we were able to extend entities, so that if a customer wanted a more tailed experience, we could extend Asset to create an entity called Computer that gave it the ability to have its own Forms, Views, Flows, etc, while still keeping the benefit of being an Asset in the core product.

Does equivalent functionality exist in model driven apps?

Thanks,

Craig

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