Category Archives: Microsoft PowerApps

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: Building Custom Connectors for Power Apps and Power Automate Flows… »

User Personal Views now available to their Managers in Dynamics 365 CRM / Power Apps / CDS!

Traditional Personal Views or the Views saved from Advanced Find Queries have long been ‘Personal’ to the owners/creators of the views unless they chose to share these views with others. Given the name ‘personal’ made sense to keep these views ‘private’ to the user but a major issue that came up amongst others are: No… Read More: User Personal Views now available to their Managers in Dynamics… »

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: How to get additional column values in PCF Dataset Control… »

How to Work with PCF Dataset Control using Fluent UI’s Detail List

Introduction With the introduction of PowerApps Component Framework, Microsoft has provided a way to replace OOB grid and Entity fields with custom controls. These controls are reusable and can be designed in any form using web development technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript) to show the CRM records like showing records in a form of Kanban Board,… Read More: How to Work with PCF Dataset Control using Fluent UI’s… »

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: Option to change Data type to AutoNumber for existing Text… »

Debug Power Apps Component for Model Driven App

Power Apps Component which was also known as Custom Control is the natural successor to HTML Web resources which was, or still is part of the Dynamics 365 CRM ecosystem for quite a long time. Developers are quite skilled when it comes to HTML web resources, however, Power Apps Component Framework is pretty simple to… Read More: Debug Power Apps Component for Model Driven App »

How to pass Power Apps Collection in Power Automate using Json Function

Introduction Earlier, we have seen how to pass parameter from Power Apps to Power Automate. In today’s blog, we will explore how to pass the Collection from Power Apps (Canvas App) to Power Automate. A collection in Power Apps is used to store data. You can explore more about Collection in Power Apps here.  Now,… Read More: How to pass Power Apps Collection in Power Automate using… »