On February 18th, 2025 Microsoft announced the public preview of the data exploration agent for Model driven apps. This new agent provides the ability to find records using complex filters using Copilot and Natural language to describe what data you are looking for.
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.
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 …
There are many times that we want to copy contents from documents that we are working on into our Dataverse application. Normally what we would be doing is copy a single element at a time from our document and paste it into our app.
Focused views, which was originally introduced as part of the Dynamics 365 Sales app allows viewing and managing records and their associated activities on a single page. It provides the ability to not navigate back and forth between screens.
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.
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.
Today, Wednesday, December 14th, 2024m Microsoft announced the preview of blocking unmanaged customizations in your environments. This new feature will prevent users from making unmanaged changes in the test and production environments as well as restrict the import of unmanaged solutions into production.
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
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
