Tag List PCF Virtual Control
While working on a project recently, I had the requirement of displaying a tag list that would be populated from an external system as a JSON string.
Category: Power Apps
Virtual table creation in Maker Portal
As part of the 2023 Wave 1 Release Plan, Microsoft simplified the process of connecting to external data and creating virtual tables from within the Maker portal. This process makes creating these connections very easy, and results can be seen in a manner of minutes. Configuration is now at the fingertips of citizen developers as well.
In-app notifications vs external notifications
In-app notifications have been a great addition to the Platform and highly usable by providing notifications to the end users within their Model-driven app, but not always will the user “notice” these and different ways of notifications can be used. There is nothing new is this post as far as …
Dialogs in Modern Command Bars
A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced the availability of displaying dialog boxes using the Power Fx function for modern Commanding. This new functionality provides the ability to have your Modern commanding component library show custom dialog boxes that can be customized to your needs, and respond to user action with Power FX.
How to Clone records in Modern Commanding
In this post, I will demonstrate how to Clone a record using Modern Commanding. This will include Cloning of the primary record in addition to the ability to Clone child records.
Calculation of Date Time Difference in Formula Columns (Preview)
Formula Columns have been in Public Preview since September 2022 and are supposed to be released to GA in March 2023 as part of the Power Platform 2022 release wave 2 plan. I have been working with formula columns for some time now, and although in preview have found this to be not only a great substitution to Calculated columns, but also provides much added functionality.
Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services Trial Failure
When we need to create Proof of Concepts, test products that we need to implement for our projects and or provide demos to our clients, at many times consultants and even partners use demo environments and products provided by Microsoft (and other organizations) in order to assist them in these cases.
Microsoft announces the General Availability (GA) of Power Pages
Last week on 10/12 at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Power Pages. Microsoft Power Pages joined the Power Platform family of products earlier this year as a standalone product. For those who are familiar with Power Apps Portals, the two products are not in yet in parity, and I assume that in time Power Apps Portals will be phased out and completely replaced by Power Pages.
Merging Solutions from multiple instances
Have you worked on a project with multiple teams where you need to update the changes from all instances into a single integration instance? There are multiple options for doing this, some manually and some automated, but in this post I will discuss a little hack (using Azure DevOps for deployment) that can be used to deploy the separate solutions into a single solution in the target instance.
Cards for Power Apps announced in MPPC
Cards for Power Apps are a new way to design and deliver mini-apps to Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Teams using Power FX/low-code.