Working with choice in Dataverse

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Introduction

        Choices provide an exact list of values that people can choose. Choices help streamline new record creation and standardize data entry, and they are best suited for a small set of standard short terms rather than a long list of complex entries. You should not use choices when the field usually contains unique entries that are not easily standardized. The Entities, which are Common Data Model items that represent a business object (account, contact, etc) are now known as “Tables”. Like custom entities, you can now also create custom Tables. 

            




The data designer allows you to setup an entity, I mean table and add fields or columns in a iDataverse very similar to Access or Excel.



Optionsets become Choices

         Choices sounds slightly less technical than Optionsets. They could have changed it to just Options and no one would have blinked. The subtle thing is now you have Choice and Choices fields, which is single optionsets vs multi-select optionsets.

        


Explore and learn what standard choices are available in Dataverse by following these steps:

1.Sign in to the Power Apps portal.

2.On the left pane, expand Data and select Choices.

3.Scroll through the list of over 100 standard choices. Select one of the standard choices and examine the default list of entries for that choice.

Create a new custom choice

To create a new custom choice by using the choice functionality in the Power Apps Portal, follow these steps:
ex.

1.Sign into Power Apps.

2.On the left pane, expand Data and select Choices.

3.Select New choice on the menu at the top of the list.

4.Enter a PC Type for the Display name.

5.Add the following items to the choice:

Laptop

Desktop

Tablet

Server



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