The Canvas App Code Reuse tool has just been listed, so it should be much easier to install it now: Just a quick summary: You can use this tool to do implement repeatable code in your canvas apps Essentially, you’ll do a bit of mark up to identify places in your canvas app where… Read More »
In the previous post, I was looking at which attributes are added to the CDS query by the Filter/Lookup functions. Might not end up with a definitive answer there, but, to summarize, chances are you’ll get the attributes included IF those attributes are utilized in the other formulas. Now, it turned out there is a… Read More »
Before you start reading, here is a disclaimer right away: this post is not an extension to the power apps documentation. It is just my attempt to figure out how Lookup and Filter functions work in Canvas Apps when those functions are applied to the CDS data source. I am hoping the information below is… Read More »
I have seen this error a few times so far, and every time it seems to happen out of nowhere. My application used to work – I even recorded a video of how it was working the night before to share it with the client. Lucky me, since, when I opened it the next morning… 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 »
In the previous post I talked about using a “RetrieveMultiple” (+Update/Create) plugin to incorporate business logic into a Canvas App. And, of course, the very first question I got is “why using a plugin if you could use a Flow”? It’s a fair question, and I figured I’d try to provide a fair answer. Have… Read More »
One problem with my inspection canvas app was that I did need some “business logic” to be there, and, of course, with the limited coding we can do in the canvas applications, it just had to be implemented somewhere else. A Microsoft Flow maybe? Well… I am talking about a CDS application, and this is… Read More »
Sometimes, a Canvas App can save a project. This would be almost impossible for me to say even a year ago; however, the way my current project evolved in the last two weeks, I can think of no better tool to quickly deliver the functionality required by the client. And, so, if you are… Read More »