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Hello all,

I am working with a data integration in my Portal.

I am using data flow to create or update information in my CDS entity. This information comes from the Dynamics AX database.

Is it possible to sync on the fly, or the only option I have is to increase my refresh time on the data flows. ¿Could I use something like the custom connector how it is used in Power Apps?

Thanks in advance,

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oliver.rodrigues 9,471 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi, if you are triggering (directly or indirectly) a Power Automate Flow via Portals, the data changes caused by your Flow will always run in the background and this won't be synced to the Portals straight away.

You will face up to 15 min for the cache to be cleared.

There are a few custom approaches to take but not very straight forward, a recent article from Nick Doelman might help: https://readyxrm.blog/2021/01/05/using-the-power-apps-portals-webapi-to-clear-the-portal-cache/

My opinion I would consider changing your Flow to a sync D365 Plugin/Workflow. If you trigger a sync job via Portals, this will make sure the cache is invalidated within the same transaction.

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Hello Oliver thanks for your response.

Although my question was not exactly that. You have answered another question I had, thank you very much!

What I mean is that the data that I have in dataverse comes from Dynamics AX through a data flow that calls a WebApi, this data flow is sync one time at day. Is it possible not to use the data flow to fill the dataverse tables and to do it in another way, for example via a custom connector? Or the only way I have to synchronize this information is by making the data flow synchronize in less time.

Thanks!

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Okay, so I think in your scenario you don't really need to worry much about the Portals itself.

Power Apps Portals only renders data from your Dataverse, so I guess the thing here is how to integrate Dynamics AX with Dataverse I guess.

Is your Dataflow coming from a PowerBI? and do you have any issues with the current implementation?

My initial guess here is that if you have a small subset of data, you could move your data integration to a Power Automate Flow, but not sure would be best approach if you have a large set of data.

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Hello Oliver,

Thanks for your answer.

You have cleared up the doubts I had and you have helped me a lot.
Integration with Dataverse should not be a problem, and I also take into account what you say, that it is not recommended to use Power Automate Flow if we have a lot of data.

Thanks!

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