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 →
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 →
It was my first PCF: the ColorfulOptionset 🧡💛💚💙💜🖤; 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Did this ever happened to you: you’ve developed a PCF, uploaded it, but when you want to customize it for a control you don’t find it in the list? At this point you might be a little lost because you don’t get much information from your environment. I'll describe the cases I’ve noted until now.... Continue Reading →
Don’t worry, the HTML web resources for model-driven are not deprecated. I just don’t believe that I will ever make new ones again. 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 →
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 →
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 →
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