I love the questions that challenges me. One of the latest ones, was about drag&drop inside a Custom Page or a Canvas App. I know about the Power Drag Drop PCF created by Scott Durow, which created a great way to easily drag and drop between collections. But I needed a little more like a... Continue Reading →
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... 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 →
Goodbye HTML Web Resources…
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 →
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 →
How To Make Dialogs For Model-Driven Apps Using Custom Pages
This week the Custom Pages were released to public preview: here the official blog. This is a huge step towards having only one app type; not having to decide which App type to choose. But it also means, that we finally get the low-code possibilities right inside the model-driven apps. Aaaand.. we don't have to... Continue Reading →