What do you do when it doesn't seem to be possible to provide the needed data to a dataset PCF? We can bind a dataset PCF to a table, a view or to a subgrid. But maybe you need to consider a table linked to another one-to-many relationship. For instance think to a subgrid, where... Continue Reading →
UpdateView in Virtual PCF Components and how to optimize rendering
Remember one of my first blogs, in which I was talking about how often the updateView method of a PCF is called (it's here). When you develop PCFs, you get used with updateView being called often. Even when there is only one change in the parameters, you might get the updateView being called a few... Continue Reading →
Colorful Optionset PCF – Virtual and Improved
It was my first PCF: the ColorfulOptionset ๐งก๐๐๐๐๐ค; developed about two years ago and published on pcf.gallery: https://pcf.gallery/colorful-optionset/. This month we've got a very important and long awaited PCF feature: the Virtual Components. Of course I had to try it out, and the ColorfulOptionset seemed to be the best fit for this first try. And... Continue Reading →
Async requests inside PCF init and updateView
In quite a few cases, when we develop PCFs we need to make external requests. Even if the runtime provides metadata for the properties we define, sometimes we need some more. Or maybe we need to grab some more data from Dataverse or an external service. One easy way would be to make this requests... Continue Reading →
Editable Dataset PCF: New SDK Methods
Last week I was just browsing to PCF sdk, in order to post a link for an answer in the Power Apps Community Forum, and I've landed to "EntityRecord". I had the feeling that something was different, so I had a look to the methods available there: Wait.... What...? Can we change and save with... Continue Reading →
Side Panes & Custom Pages – Implement a Shopping Cart in MDA
I wanted to have look to the new announced Side Panes in model-driven apps. I've read some blogs, but until I don't try things out, I don't have the feeling that I really know what's about. It's still a preview, but maybe my test will help you get a feeling about what's possible... and get... Continue Reading →
Why is my PCF not in the list?
Did this ever happened to you: youโve developed a PCF, uploaded it, but when you want to customize it for a control you donโt find it in the list? At this point you might be a little lost because you donโt get much information from your environment. I'll describe the cases Iโve noted until now.... Continue Reading →
Goodbye HTML Web Resources…
Donโt worry, the HTML web resources for model-driven are not deprecated. I just donโt believe that I will ever make new ones again. ย But there is that old problem of ClientGlobalContext deprecation. The ClientGlobalContext is an aspx site which we used to include in every HTML web resource in order to get access to information... Continue Reading →
Send In-App Notifications from Custom Pages
In-app notification announcement was very promising. Of course, I had to try it out right away. It's a preview feature, but the docs are already very detailed. We find there how to activate this feature per app and discover a lot of interesting examples on how to send notifications using form scripting. Basically, all we... Continue Reading →
Quick Tip: Refreshing/Reload Custom Pages after an Update
In the last blog I've written about how to make Custom Pages. When you develop more complex Custom Pages you probably have to make changes to the page and play the app to check if it's working accordingly. But then I've got only notifications telling me to refresh to app, but wasn't able to tame... Continue Reading →