Customizations

Tools for publishing customizations, inspecting plugin steps and custom actions, and managing workflows and environment variables.

Publishing Customizations — dataverse_publish_customizations

Publishes unpublished customizations — equivalent to clicking Publish All in the Power Apps maker portal.

Publish all pending customizations

{}

Publish specific components only

{
  "components": {
    "entities": ["account", "contact"],
    "webResources": ["new_/scripts/main.js"],
    "optionSets": ["new_projectstatus"]
  }
}

Warning: Publishing all customizations can take 30–120 seconds in large environments.

Annotations: readOnlyHint: false, destructiveHint: false.

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Custom Actions — dataverse_list_custom_actions

Lists all custom actions (Custom API / SDK messages) registered in the environment.

{
  "top": 50,
  "nameFilter": "contoso"
}

Returns: message name, category, bound entity (if any), execute privilege, and customizability.

Annotations: readOnlyHint: true.

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Plugin Steps — dataverse_list_plugin_steps

Lists plugin step registrations, showing what custom logic fires on Dataverse operations.

Example: All active plugin steps for the account table

{
  "entityLogicalName": "account",
  "activeOnly": true,
  "top": 100
}

Response includes:

Field	Description
Plugin assembly	The DLL containing the logic
Message	Create, Update, Delete, etc.
Stage	Pre-validation (10), Pre-operation (20), Post-operation (40)
Mode	Synchronous (0) or Asynchronous (1)
State	Enabled or Disabled

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Environment Variables

Get a variable — dataverse_get_environment_variable

{
  "schemaName": "new_ApiEndpoint"
}

Response:

{
  "summary": "Environment variable new_ApiEndpoint",
  "data": {
    "schemaName": "new_ApiEndpoint",
    "displayName": "API Endpoint",
    "type": "String",
    "defaultValue": "https://api.example.com",
    "currentValue": "https://api-prod.example.com"
  },
  "suggestions": []
}

Set a variable — dataverse_set_environment_variable

{
  "schemaName": "new_ApiEndpoint",
  "value": "https://api-staging.example.com"
}

If a value record exists, it is updated. Otherwise, a new value record is created.

Annotations: idempotentHint: true.

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Workflow State Management — dataverse_set_workflow_state

Activate or deactivate a classic workflow, real-time workflow, or action.

Activate a workflow

{
  "workflowId": "abc12345-0000-0000-0000-000000000001",
  "activate": true
}

Deactivate a workflow

{
  "workflowId": "abc12345-0000-0000-0000-000000000001",
  "activate": false
}

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Typical Workflow

1. dataverse_list_plugin_steps: check registered plugins
2. dataverse_list_custom_actions: discover available actions
3. Make changes to schema or records
4. dataverse_publish_customizations: publish your changes

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Related

• Inspecting schema — explore table metadata
• Managing records — CRUD operations after inspecting customizations