Category Archives: PCF

Managing Component Dependencies in Power Apps Solutions-Dataverse

As a Power Apps developer, you may encounter situations where you need to improve an existing solution, such as enhancing a custom model-driven app for case management customer support. Additionally, you might be tasked with eliminating outdated components, like a web resource no longer in use, that is part of a complex solution with interrelated… Read More: Managing Component Dependencies in Power Apps Solutions-Dataverse »

Automatically sending Power Apps cards to Microsoft Teams channels using Power Automate Flow

Microsoft has added a new feature called Cards in the Wave 2 release.  Cards are simplified forms that are connected to Dataverse which can be sent to CRM users to capture the required details. In the previous blog, we explained how to create cards using Power Apps. In this blog, we have explained how to… Read More: Automatically sending Power Apps cards to Microsoft Teams channels using… »

Transfer online files to a local device using ‘Download function’ in Power Apps

Recently Microsoft announced a powerful feature -“Download function in Power Apps”. This feature allows us to easily download online files from the web to the local device. Let’s see how to use this feature in everyday life. Suppose our organization wants to create an App (Canvas or Model Driven App) in Dynamics CRM. We have… Read More: Transfer online files to a local device using ‘Download function’… »

How to permanently delete Disabled Users from Power Platform

Whenever a user deletes any users from the Microsoft 365 admin center then that user remains in the power platform environment as a disabled user. Now, users can delete the users permanently from the power platform using Delete Disabled Users (Preview) feature. The main purpose of this feature is as follows- Whenever we delete any… Read More: How to permanently delete Disabled Users from Power Platform »

Editable Grid feature properties of Power Apps Grid control

With the Power Apps grid control, users can view, open and edit records from view and sub-grids, an evolution of Power Apps read-only control. In our previous blog, we saw how users can edit records within the grid and do infinite scrolling until they find the records they are interested in. Also, they can configure… Read More: Editable Grid feature properties of Power Apps Grid control »

Use of async-await in virtual PCF control

Recently while working on the virtual PCF control we noticed that the updateView() in the virtual PCF works in a different manner as compared to standard PCF control with async functions. In standard PCF control, the return type of the updateView() is void while in the virtual PCF the return type is react-element. So when… Read More: Use of async-await in virtual PCF control »

New Mobile “Offline-First” Setup within PowerApps

In the last blog, we saw How to enable model-driven apps for offline use. Refer to the following link to enable the model-driven app for offline use. After enabling the app for offline use, the following pop-up gets displayed on the screen. The user is prompted to download the offline data as shown in the… Read More: New Mobile “Offline-First” Setup within PowerApps »

Format input values into different user input formats using Formatting API in PCF Control

Introduction In the previous blog, we have explained the Formatting API of PCF Control where we used the Formatting API to format the input values. Earlier, we used different Formatting API methods to format the number and date values. In this blog, we will introduce a new Formatting API method (formatUserInput) that formats the given… Read More: Format input values into different user input formats using Formatting… »