Call FetchXml Inside Custom Pages Without Flows – The PCF Way

Recently I was working on a CustomPage and came across the need to be more flexible in fetching data from Dataverse.I needed to call complex fetchXmls and CustomAPIs. For this blog I'll talk only about fetching data, but my solution works also for calling CustomAPIs. For fetching data, the requitement is similar with the one...

Optimized Fetching of Related Records inside Power Apps Grid Customizer PCF

I've wrote a few blogs about the (Preview) Power Apps Grid customized control: a way to host PCFs right inside the grid. The last one in that direction was about fetching related records. It's amazing that we are able to work with child records right inside the Power Apps Grid, but the way shown in...

“pac pcf push” Not Updating the PCF Component

The issue from this blog was fixed with the pac version 1.19.4. 🙂 Since a few versions, the Power Platform CLI (pac) has an issue with "pac pcf push": the component doesn't seem to get updated inside your environment. I've encountered that a while ago, when I was working on the Power Apps Grid customizer...

Fetch Related Records with Power Apps Grid Customizer Control

The Power Apps Grid customizer control is a preview feature I really look forward to. In the last two blogs I've already shown how to use it for: Host your own read-only or editable PCF inside the Power Apps Grid Implement calculated columns for offline using the Power Apps Grid In this blog I'll push...

Implement Calculated Columns with Power Apps Grid Control

We can implement calculated columns using Dataverse formula columns (using Power Fx), and that should be the first choice. But that won't work in offline mode (at least not that I am aware of). Using the Power Apps Grid customizer control, I could get it work offline too. In case you don't know about the...

Power Apps Grid Control – First Glimpse to the Cell Renderer and Editors

We've saw the Power Apps grid control (Preview) in the latest Wave Announcements. Each time we hear about great improvements. In Release Wave 1/2022 we've got inline-editing and infinite scrolling. But as we've tried it out, we saw the last parameter which sounded really promising: The description of the parameter was really exciting: Full logical...

My Top Features From Wave 2/2022

The Power Platform Release Plans for Wave 2/2022 are out. As a developer for Power Apps I've spotted so many features I was waiting for... Here are my top ones: #1 Power Apps Features These features are not directly targeting the developers, but they are very powerful tools to think of, when we design an...

Subgrid Dataset PCF: Programmatically Extend Relations

The last blog was about how to programmatically extend a dataset PCF with relations, and how to filter it. The main purpose was to avoid hardcoding WebApi requests. In this blog the story goes on with examples: let's talk about how to use the dataset "linking sdk" to make PCFs for subgrids containing extended relationships...

PCF: Dataset Relationships (Linking) in Model-Driven Apps

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...

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...