Remember the old days when all developers (and not only developers) had to also develop an habit of using CTRL+S to save their changes so not to lose them? There is a bit of that in the PowerApps / Dynamics Application designer right now. Depending on how you add entities to the sitemap in… Read More »
There have been a number of really good posts on the licensing so far, but, I think, the main problem for me used to be that I just could not consume all that information till I left the familiar space of the On-Premise implementations and started working in the online environment. So, in this… Read More »
Canvas Apps tutorials / samples are often using the same approach. They will show you how to create an application that is relying on the Gallery and Form controls and walk you through the basic usage of those controls. Here is an example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/customize-layout-sharepoint Those are very powerful controls and you can achieve a lot… Read More »
This post is nothing but a relatively boring technical walkthrough.. Which is as promised in the previous (hopefully not so boring) teaser post Before you continue with this one, you may want to do some reading on how embedded canvas apps can be added to the model driven apps. I would suggest a few links… Read More »
I think at least half of my posts should start with “I was pulling my hair out, and then..” (Like the picture? Here is the source) If you ever tried creating a printer-ready screen in Dynamics that would, among other things, display a Base64 image stored in a field, you might know the feeling.… Read More »
It would be a challenge these days to find a single person who does not have any picture id at all. Driver licences, health cards, passports, access cards.. Those id-s are everywhere – I probably have to carry at least 2-3 every day, and there are a few more I have to carry occasionally.… Read More »
Yesterday, I was scratching my head trying to figure out why a value I stored in a variable was not displayed correctly in the text box. Turned out I was doing this kind of thing: I was setting a context variable in one place, and I was setting a global variable in another. Both variables… Read More »
Well, if there is an experimental feature, let’s experiment! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/create-component Having read through that page, I thought “wow.. can I create some kind of confirmation dialog using those components?” (Hint: if you are wondering how that worked out, scroll down to the bottom to see the recording) That was a crazy idea, I can… Read More »
When looking at the application designer, we can see application ID in the link: It is the same appid that will be added to the url when you open your application in Dynamics: However, try adding that application(and the corresponding sitemap) to a solution, then export the solution, and have a look at the customizations.xml:… Read More »
While prototyping my image upload canvas application for the contact form the other day, I ran into something that is probably just a quirk of the preview implementation, but you may want to be aware of this behavior when doing something similar in the meantime. Imagine that you had your canvas app working with… Read More »