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 »
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 »