Lookup PCF ...the second.. this time for real! I had a look how a Lookup PCF works, what I can do with it and what not, how to detect the settings made by the maker, and more.... Even if the most of it is not supported for now, it helps me understand the Lookup role in the PCF-puzzle.
A first look to the Lookup PCF
According to the docs, we can start using the PCF Lookup.Simple. But there is a small bundling issue. After fixing that, the customizing possibilities lets me dream about amazing features. Dream with me!
Single-Component Tabs in Model Driven Forms
Can you believe the featured image is a form? A model-driven form with a PCF on it, and nothing else? Lately I've saw in the docs an excelent article on best practices for model-driven forms: "Design forms for efficiency". Right to the end, there is a part about letting a control expand to the whole... Continue Reading →
Issue with the PCF Navigation API
When we write react PCF controls, we are used to pass callbacks to the components. Some of this functions who might be passed, are the (context.navigation methods). Recently we had the feeling that it suddenly stopped working (ok, we used the context.navigation.navigateTo, which is not supported, so at first we thought it's our fault). But... Continue Reading →
The Form Component Control promotes the PCFs to the next level
Did you ever developed a UI component like a PCF or a WebResource for an entity form, and later you get the requirement to make it work also for a child entity? For instance you make a PCF for contacts subgrid on the account form, and the you should make this PCF work in the... Continue Reading →
TwoOptionsComposite – the downside of PCF composite controls
A while ago, Amey Holden had a wish: a PCF for model driven apps, to help visualize only the 'flags' beeing a "yes". At first I thought that it could be done also with standard possibilities, but she said that there will be quite a few Yes/No fields. Besides that, it should be "colorful and... Continue Reading →
All about PCF-Versioning
One of the most common question asked in the Power Apps Pro Dev Community Forum is about the PCF version. In some cases, the PCF doesn't seem to get updated, which creates a lot of frustration. So here is everything I know (until now) about this. PCF Version First things first. What is the PCF... Continue Reading →
DevOps Dataverse ALM using Power Apps CLI: a source centric approach – Part 2
In the Part1 of the blog post we saw how to set up the CDS projects, and also the first Azure DevOps Pipeline which allows us to grab the customizations, extract the content and commit to the github repository (inside a CDS project). In this blog I'll write about the second pipeline, which I use... Continue Reading →
DevOps Dataverse ALM using Power Apps CLI: a source centric approach
This week I've made some DevOps Pipelines. I'm a bloody beginner in this area, but I had a vision about how it should work. "A man with a plan". 🙂 So I've googeled quite a few, and I've found helpful blogs from Tae Rim Han, Benedikt Bergmann and Ryan Spain (I'll post all the links... Continue Reading →
PCF Debugging
Let's suppose you have the debug version of your PCF uploaded in your environment. How do you debug? Of course we don't want to use minimized code. To get the debug version of the code we have a few ways Use the debug Harness by using "npm start watch"Using Fiddler AutoResponder, as shown in my... Continue Reading →