Ever since Power Apps Component Framework went into the GA, there probably was not a day when a new PCF component would not be released by somebody in the Power Platform community. There is just no way to ignore the fact that PCF has turned into a very popular addition to the Power Platform developer… Read More »
Up until now, none of my PCF controls were meant to be readonly. But, of course, it would only make sense to prevent updates for inactive records and/or when some of those controls are set to be readonly in the form designer: Dynamics Ninja has already described the basics in his earlier post: https://dynamicsninja.blog/2019/11/25/is-your-pcf-control-read-only/ Just… Read More »
I was looking into adding FetchXml parameter to the N:N lookup PCF component earlier today, and something interesting came up. But first things first. I needed a way to define a filter for the list of records my control will be showing in the dropdown list. Imagine the following scenario, for instance: There is a… Read More »
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 »