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...

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...

Colorful Optionset PCF – Virtual and Improved

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...

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...

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...

Why is my PCF not in the list?

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....