Did you ever try to put a really big IFrame on the model-driven form? If you did, and totally irrespective of why you would do such a bizarre thing, you might have seen this message: Those 40 rows, whatever they mean in pixels, is the maximum you can get if you go with a regular… Read More »
You probably know that PowerApps Component Framework is now in the public preview for CanvasApps. So, what do we do when there is something new? Of course, we start poking around to see what happens. One thought that kept bothering me is that I tend to use more than I am probably supposed to in… Read More »
Every input control in model-driven apps has a couple of methods that I use quite often when creating web resources to customize form behavior. Those are: setVisible setDisabled Actually, I can’t recall a single projects where I would not need to use one, or, probably, both of those. So, we have PCF now, and… Read More »
You know how we can put more than one control for the same attribute on the model-driven form? So I was thinking… would it work if I added the same attribute twice, but if I used default control for the first occurrence of that attribute on the form, and, then, if I used a custom… Read More »
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 »
It was great to see how N:N lookup PCF control has sparked some interest, but there are still a few things that could(and probably should) be added. For example, what if I wanted to make it work when creating a new record? Normally, a subgrid won’t event show up on the new record form. But,… Read More »
I wanted to see how a custom PCF control would work in a canvas app, and, as it turned out, it just works if you make sure this experimental feature has been enabled in the environment: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-experimental-release-of-the-powerapps-component-framework-for-canvas-apps/ You also need to enable components for the app: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/component-framework/component-framework-for-canvas-apps So, since I tried it for the Validated… Read More »
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 »