DataFlows – Customer lookup fix🔨

I have allready posted about the Customer Lookup, but there is a bug ATM that will prevent you from setting the customer lookup correctly.

Luckily Microsoft has provided us with a temporary workaround while they figure out how they are going to support polymorphic lookups like Customer in dataflows 👌

The Problem

When trying to map customer lookup you won’t be able to see the correct lookup in the DataFlow. It may differ what you see, but it could be a different combination of fields like this:

All of the fields that have “Fieldsomething.Fieldsomethingelse” are lookups. The Customer lookup does not work as intended here, even though the field “ParentCustomerID” is the correct field to use. In a previous post I showed how to get around this issue, but Microsoft removed the projects configuration options. After talking to support, they showed me how to make it work again !!🙏💪

There is a new link in town!!

https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/ext/DataIntegration/Project/D2E-“GUID“
The GUID has to be replaced with the project you need to correct.

To find the GUID for the URL, you simply have to download the error in your run

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Open the URL, and gain access to you project. Now you can complete the same steps as DATAFLOW-CUSTOMER-LOOKUP

MS has mentioned fixing this bug in the future, but while we wait….