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 →
Style a PCF using FluentUI – when a Theme is not enough
When the FluentUI Theme is not enough, we can generate CSS classes using merge-styles.
Debug your PCFs during development using Fiddler AutoResponder
Fiddler AutoResponder is a great way to debug the PCF Components. If you don't use it already, let me tell you why you should. If you use it already, what's your recipe?
Dialog Buttons PCF
In my blog "Transform Forms into Dialogs and more..." I've described how it is possible to make dialogs out of standard form customizing using the SDK. In case you want to implement it, you might need some buttons to start the dialog actions. This PCF is about the Dialog Buttons PCF, which tries to implement these buttons. Requirements First, I have to find a name for this... Continue Reading →
Transform Forms into Dialogs and more…
Xrm SDK methods for hiding the header and footer: welcome 🙂 Yesterday I've seen the new SDK methods for hiding the header and footer areas on the form, and the first impression was: WOW! I just had the feeling that I've missed this feature since ever. So I've tried to remember where I've needed this... Continue Reading →