Security Roles in Model Driven App views
This has been a feature that has been requested for as long as I can remember using Microsoft Dynamics CRM and the Power Platform, and finally it is here.
Category: Unified Interface (UCI)
Creating a new Virtual PCF with Fluent UI version 9
In a recent project a needed to create a PCF control, to display a notification within the form. The MessageBar Fluent UI v9 component provided the functionality that we were looking for, so we decided to go ahead and take advantage of that. The PCF Builder extension for Visual Studio …
Changes to Release channels for model-driven apps
Microsoft provides new and updated features for model-driven apps on a regular basis. Until recently, those feature updates were rolled out in two release waves called the semi-annual release waves, which is the default setting for all of the existing apps and environments.
Masking sensitive data in Dataverse
As part of the 2024 Power Platform Release Wave 1, Microsoft has released (currently in Public Preview) the ability to create secured fields and mask either all or parts of the field based on regular expressions. This would allow us to show parts of the secured fields (such as the last 4 digits of a social security number) on the form without having to deal with custom scripts and not having the ability to export the full data of those fields.
Standard vs Virtual PCF Controls
A while back (April of last year) Microsoft introduced the concept of Virtual PCF components. Although there are a lot of benefits of using this new type of component adoption does not seem to be too high. When looking at the components that are available in the pcf gallery for example, the majority of the components are still Standard
Modern Controls for Power Apps
through an opt-in preview. These controls are based on Microsoft’s Fluent design system, which most of the Microsoft product experiences follow (such as Microsoft Office and Microsoft Teams).
Action Button PCF Virtual Control
In this post, I will review a recently created Action Button control that provides the ability to display an Action button on the form in multiple variations and bind it to an additional control to enable or disable the control on the form
Visualizing the Notifications
he ability to send notifications to the user (as In-App Notification, Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Teams). In this post, I will demonstrate how to show the notifications that have been sent to the user on the Contact record as a virtual dataset pcf control.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2023 Release Wave 1 Plans
Yesterday (January 25, 2023), Microsoft release their plans for Microsoft Dynamics 2023 Release Wave 1. These release plans are available in various formats and can be accessed on the Microsoft Learn site, the Microsoft Release Planner or can be downloaded as PDFs.
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.