Updated Bootstrap version and modern lists for Power Pages in Power Platform 2024 Release Wave 1

In the last few days, we have seen a few updates in the Power Pages blog site that we have been waiting for. These are the creation of new Power Pages sites in Bootstrap version 5.2.2 and the Public Preview of modern lists for Power Pages. Let’s go over these updates.

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

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.

Power Apps Creator Kit – First Review

Late last month, the Microsoft Power Platform Customer Advisory Team (PowerCAT) released the Power Apps Creator Kit, which is a set of prebuilt controls and components to assist both citizen and professional developers in their journey of developing Canvas Apps and Custom Pages. In this post I will review a sample application that I created using some of these components.

Setting up the Power Apps Creator Kit

Whether you are new to developing Canvas Apps or are experienced, the Power Apps Creator Kit from the PowerCAT team has been a big talk in the community. The toolkit provides a list of pre-built controls and components that can be used to design and develop your Canvas Apps and Custom Pages.

2022 Wave 1 Release Power Apps Read Only Grid

In the last Power Platform Release Wave, 2021 Wave 2, Microsoft released some enhancements to the grid control that is displayed in views and subgrids. In the upcoming release, 2022 Wave 1, Microsoft has replaced this grid control with a new read-only that will be part of this release.

Using Microsoft Multiselect Lookup in your Model Driven Apps – Part II

In the last blog post, I demonstrated how to use the Microsoft Multiselect Lookup control (similar to the Activity Party control), which was released as part of an update to Field Services to add new values to a backend many to many relationship. In this post, I am going to extend this further to show how to add and remove items from the multiselect control, and have them get updated in the relationship.

Using Microsoft Multiselect Lookup in your Model Driven Apps

Earlier last year (September timeframe), Microsoft released a Multiselect Lookup control (similar to the Activity Party control) as part of an update to Field Services. The control does not seem to be available across the entire spectrum yet, but if you have a Field Services License or an Enterprise license, you should be able to use this control across your Dataverse environment.