I used to think Canvas Apps are synchronous, since, after all, there are no callback functions, which means implementing a real async execution pattern would be a problem. As it turned out, there are at least a couple of situations where Canvas Apps are starting to behave in a very asynchronous way. There is a… Read More »
It was a strange day today – I kept finding new stuff (as in “new for me”) in Canvas Apps. Apparently it had something to do with the fact that a Canvas App I was working on is being used in production now, so it’s getting much more real-life testing than it used to. A… Read More »
When thinking about user licensing in D365 instances, you may be thinking of D365 applications. However, from the licensing standpoint D365 instance is nothing but an “advanced” CDS instance with a bunch of first-party apps deployed there, so it is still possible to use Power Apps “per app” and “per user” plans in those instances.… Read More »
Sometimes, I get a feeling that, as far as Dynamics/Model-Driven javascript event handlers are concerned, everything has already been said and done. However, I was recently asked a question which, as it later turned out, did not really have the kind of a simple answer I thought it would have (meaning, “just google it” did… Read More »
I have definitely managed to mess up my PCF controls solution a few weeks ago, since I put some test entities into that solution, and, then, I missed to include a few dependencies. Definitely my apologies for that to everyone who tried to deploy that solution while I was happily spending time on vacation, but,… Read More »
We all know about the owner teams, security roles, access teams, field security profiles, etc. But there is yet another not-so-obvious security feature which controls access to CDS records through the “reparent” behavior on the “parental”/”configurable cascading” 1:N relationship. Why does it matter? See, on the diagram below, even though the security role is configured… Read More »
In the new blog post, Power Platform product team is featuring Application Insights integration for Canvas Apps: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/log-telemetry-for-your-apps-using-azure-application-insights/ It does look great, and it’s one of those eye-catching/cool features which won’t leave you indifferent for sure: Although, I can’t get rid of the feeling that we are now observing how “Citizen Developers” world is getting… Read More »
It’s been a while since I’ve updated TCS Tools the last time – there are a few reasons for that, of course. First of all, the most popular component in that solution has always been “attribute setter” which essentially allowed to do advanced operations in the workflows using FetchXml: Using FetchXml to query and update… Read More »
It was great to see how N:N lookup PCF control has sparked some interest, but there are still a few things that could(and probably should) be added. For example, what if I wanted to make it work when creating a new record? Normally, a subgrid won’t event show up on the new record form. But,… Read More »
If you ever wanted to have your own multiselect optionset which would be utilizing an N:N relationship behind the scene, here you go: It works and behaves similarly to the out-of-the-box multiselect optionset, but it’s not an option set. It’s a custom PCF control that’s relying on the N:N relationship to display those dropdown values… Read More »