Add Hubdrive tables to Dynamics Search functionality

Objective

While using the Hubdrive solution, you might have noticed the search bar in the ribbon at the top. This search functionality of the Power Platform can be used to search for records in the solution. To enable this functionality to search for Hubdrive solution records, a couple of steps have to be taken first. This tutorial will lead you through those steps.

Process

System Admin

Enables Dataverse Search

System Admin

Enables tables to appear in search results

Prerequisites

You are the system administrator

Click Through

Start in the Admin Center
Click on Environments in the column on the left
Select your Environment
Click on Settings in the top-ribbon
Click on Product
Click on Features
Under Search set Dataverse search to on
Save at the bottom of the form
Go to make.powerapps.com
Go to solutions
Select the solution you use for your customizations
Click on Add existing
Select table
Search for the table you want to be able to search in the future and Select the table
Click on Next
Check Include all Objects
Add
On the left side under Objects, look for the table you want to add to the Dataversesearch (e.g. Employee)
Click on the Table name (e.g. Employee), then in the section Table properties click on Properties
Click on Advanced options
Scroll all the way down and enable Appear in search results under Rows in this table
Save
Click on Advanced in the top-ribbon
Click on Publish table

Result

In this example, the employee table was added to the search results and individual employees can now be found via the search function.