Compass

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Compass is your operations dashboard for Power Platform. See what's running, what's broken, and flip switches — all without leaving Dataverse or navigating between multiple admin portals.

What Is Compass?

While the main Cartographer app focuses on documentation and understanding, Compass focuses on monitoring and control. It is a separate model-driven app included in the Cartographer solution.

Compass brings together the management of cloud flows, plugin steps, environment variables, and business rules into a single, filterable interface. Instead of switching between the Power Automate portal, the Plugin Registration Tool, and the classic solution explorer, you manage everything from one place.

Dashboard

The main landing page of Compass provides a single-screen overview of your environment's operational health.

Summary cards

Cloud Flows

Active / Off / Failed

Plugin Steps

Active / Off / Sync / Async

Workflows

Active / Off / Failed

Env Variables

Total / Set / No Value

Additional widgets

  • Recent Flow Failures — list of flows that failed in the last 7 days with failure time and link to open
  • Recently Modified Components — sorted by last modified date
  • Components by Table — horizontal bar chart of component counts per table (top 5)
Screenshot: Compass Dashboard overview

Cloud Flow Monitor

View and manage all cloud flows across your crawled solutions in one place.

Capabilities

  • Enable / Disable toggle — activate or deactivate any flow with a single click. Confirmation dialog prevents accidental changes.
  • Open in Power Automate — deep link to the flow in the Power Automate portal for detailed editing
  • View Runs — expandable panel showing the last 10 run results with timestamps, durations, and status
  • Search and Filter — by flow type (Automated/Scheduled/Instant), table, status (On/Off), and last run status
  • Bulk actions — select multiple flows and enable or disable them all at once
Disabling a cloud flow stops it from running immediately. Any scheduled or triggered executions will not fire until the flow is re-enabled. Use caution with production flows.

Plugin Step Manager

View and manage all registered plugin steps across your crawled solutions.

Capabilities

  • Enable / Disable — toggle plugin step activation state
  • View Details — assembly name, step configuration, pre/post images, isolation mode, filtering attributes, execution order
  • Filters — by table, stage (Pre-Validation/Pre-Operation/Post-Operation), mode (Sync/Async), state
  • Grouping — group by table or by assembly for easy navigation
Disabling a plugin step can cause data integrity issues if other components depend on it. Review the Automation Map for the relevant table before disabling any plugin steps.

Environment Variables

View and edit environment variable values directly from Compass without navigating to the classic solution explorer.

  • View all environment variables with their current and default values
  • Edit current values inline
  • Reset a value back to the default with one click
  • Identify variables with no value set (potential misconfiguration)

Business Rules

Manage business rule activation state across all tables.

  • View all business rules with their scope (Entity/All Forms/Specific Form) and status
  • Activate or deactivate business rules with a toggle
  • Filter by table and activation status
Compass shows Cartographer's AI summary for each business rule alongside its controls, so you can quickly understand what a rule does before deciding to activate or deactivate it.

Opening Compass

Compass is a separate model-driven app. To open it:

  1. Go to make.powerapps.com and select your environment
  2. Navigate to Apps
  3. Click Compass (it has a compass icon, separate from the Cartographer app)
Compass requires data from Cartographer crawls. Make sure you have at least one solution crawled in Cartographer before opening Compass, otherwise the dashboard will be empty.