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 »
You probably know that we can extend entity forms with the canvas apps – this feature has been in the preview for a while now: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/october18/powerapps/extend-dynamics-365-entity-forms-with-embedded-canvas-apps It would be interesting to find some useful application for this new functionality, so I figured why don’t I use it to add “image upload” area to a… Read More »
When developing a PowerApps in the PowerApps Studio, make sure you are using a supported browser. You may not even realize that the browser is not supported till you run into something that’s not working – from that standpoint, it might be worth it for the PowerApps Studio to be a bit more proactive, maybe… Read More »
I was listening to the PowerApps/Flow course below, and, of course, right off the bat ran into something that made me backtrack what was said in the video a few times till I finally figured out what was going wrong. Here is the course url, btw (I like the course so far, though I’m definitely… Read More »
I love the idea of model-driven PowerApps. XRM is what I’ve been doing most of the time, so that kind of XRM-only plan would be just the right plan for me. But what I do need is the ability to export/import solutions – so, seeing how model-driven PowerApps are, basically, re-using Dynamics 365 admin interfaces,… Read More »