Category Archives: Microsoft PowerApps

Use of JSON Type Web Templates in PowerApps Portals

Introduction Microsoft PowerApps Portals provide us the configuration surface which allows users to add forms to collect data in the portal without custom development. Web Template is a Power Apps entity (adx_webtemplate), included with Power Apps portals, that is used to store template source content. A web template will generally contain Liquid for dynamic content… Read More »

Pass Field Value from One Page to Another as Query String Parameter in Microsoft PowerApps Portals

Introduction Microsoft PowerApps Portals provides us the configuration surface which allows users to add forms to collect data in the portal without custom development. Entity Forms provides the ability to create, update and display CRM entities records and they are placed into webpages in the portal or used in conjunction with sub grids and entity… Read More »

Building Custom Connectors for Power Apps and Power Automate Flows – Part 1

Custom logic has until now and still being developed mostly as plugin or workflow assemblies. If you wanted to extend the default behavior of the platform on certain actions like create or update record, you developed either a plugin or workflow and then had to use the Plugin Registration Tool to register this on the… Read More »

How to get additional column values in PCF Dataset Control using addColumn()

Introduction In our previous blog, Create Configurable PCF Dataset control using Property-set and Property we asked users about which attributes they would like to visualize. Similarly in this blog, we’ll see how to programmatically get the record value in the context along with the other column values. In the previous blog we have seen how… Read More »

Option to change Data type to AutoNumber for existing Text fields now available with the new maker experience for Power Platform!

Back in the old days, we had to write custom plugins to auto-generate code values to automatically assign sequential numbers to records being created. To overcome this issue of having to generate unique values at all times through custom code and to support the auto generation of a codes based on a given seed and… Read More »