Let Your Subgrid Dataset PCF Communicate with the Form

The changes inside a dataset PCF used on a subgrid might influence the other information showed on the Model-Driven Apps Forms. It could influence a counter on a form, or another subgrid which happens to show the same records. Then you need to refresh that controls. But using the Xrm object inside a PCF is...

Drag and Drop Rows in Power Apps Grid

Please note that this solution contains a part which is not supported by the platform right now, so it shouldn't be used in production yet. If this eventually gets documented in the future (so if it will be supported), I'll update the blog. The requirement Lately I was asked if it's possible to implement a...

Disable Async Timeout for Save Events in Model-Driven Forms – Show Dialogs in OnSave

The OnSave event in Model-Driven Forms was one of the events where we couldn't execute asynchronous code, and that stayed that way for a very long time. The only way we could make some requests before saving a record, was to stop the saving process, make the requests and start the saving again. But that...

Drag and Drop between PCFs (Canvas Apps, Custom Pages, Model-Driven Forms)

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...

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...