Category Archives: PowerApps

Public Preview of PowerApps Build Tools

Recently, there was an interesting announcement from the Power Apps Team: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/automate-your-application-lifecycle-management-alm-with-powerapps-build-tools-preview/ Before I continue, I wanted to quickly summarize the list of Azure DevOps tasks available in this release. Here it goes: PowerApps Tools Installer PowerApps Import Solution PowerApps Export Solution PowerApps Unpack Solution PowerApps Pack Solution PowerApps Set Solution Version PowerApps Deploy… Read More »

When the error message is lost in translations

Every now and then, I see this kind of error message in the UCI: It may seem useful, but, when looking at the log file, all I can say is that, well, something has happened. Since all I can see in the downloaded log file is a bunch of callstack lines similar to the one… Read More »

More checkboxes in PCF! As a TreeView this time

Did you ever have to tag records? What if we could organize those tags into a hierarchy, and, then, present them as a tree so the user could check off a few tags to identify the record? Maybe it would look somewhat similar to this – at the top, there is a tree version,… Read More »

Creating a custom PCF control for a subgrid – a few findings so far

When creating a custom PCF control for a subgrid, how do you display “add new item”, “quick find”, and other commands/actions/navigation items which you would normally see accompanying the subgrids on the forms? That’s what I was recently asking in the community forums: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Component-Framework/PCF-controls-for-specific-subgrid-columns/m-p/304895#M440 Once again, folks from the PCF team have raised to the… Read More »

The SOAP endpoint is dying – long live the Organization Service!

This post may have no practical meaning, really. Well, except, maybe, that the next time somebody tells you “Organization Service has been deprecated” you can say confidently that the rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated. I used to think that the Organization Service is going away, it’s getting replaced by Web API,… Read More »

A PCF subgrid to check off related items quickly

Sometimes, all we need from a subgrid is to show us the list of checkboxes. For instance, imagine an inspection entity. A vehicle inspection maybe… Every inspection would have a list of standard inspection items associated with it. If only there were an easy way to check off all those items quickly. Of course… Read More »

If it’s one tab/window or if it’s multiple tabs/windows – the choice is yours. Although, you have to be in the UCI

I like the unified interface. I did not like it when it was introduced originally, but I don’t mind it at all the way it is now. One thing I used to not like that much about the navigation in the recent versions of Dynamics is that whenever I clicked a lookup it would just… Read More »

How to: package and deploy a PCF control without actually doing much (if anything)

While creating a PCF control I realized at some point that building and packaging it is taking time. More importantly, it’s taking time from the developer – I don’t mind if my laptop spent some time doing all the deployment, but why would I want to also baby sit this powerful machine? So, basically,… Read More »

PCF Controls – now I have my first PCF control, too

I was curious to see what writing an actual custom PowerApps component using the PowerApps Component Framework (PCF) would look like, but, up until a few days ago, there was always something in the way. Now that I finally got some hands-on experience, it seems there are a few things which I wanted to… Read More »

Why would you use “Stage for Upgrade” with managed solutions?

In case you were wondering what that “stage for upgrade” option means and why is it there in the first place: It’s all about deleting components from the managed solutions. The ALM whitepaper actually does a good job describing this feature, though there is a lot of other content in that document, so “stage… Read More »