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PowerPlatform.com is for sale*!
*Well ok it's not for sale - but I've got your attention! 😂 Here's my point - it wasn't much over a year ago that it was for sale! Using the waybackmachine and whois history you can see the development...
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Webhooks for logging
There are times where you'd just like to quickly know what's going on in your CDS instance in 'real time' without filling up your Plugin Trace Log.Here is a neat way of enabling logging using...
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Error after upgrading to .NET Framework 4.8
If you are coming to the PowerPlatform World Tour in London on the 28th August I'll see you there. Come and see my session on how CDS changes the way we think about building Apps!Today I'm really busy...
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5 Things That Changed How We Think About D365 Implementations - D365UG |...
I was very privileged to be asked to speak at the first D365UG meeting in Bristol. If you didn't manage to make it, Joel did a fantastic job of recording it so you can watch now!
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How do the PowerPlatform API Limits affect Model Driven Apps?
You might have seen the important announcement from the PowerPlatform team about how there are new API limits to be in effect from the 1st October 2019.We have been somewhat spoilt in past years with...
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Flows now support CDS transactions. Introducing the Changeset Request!
The road from Classic Workflows to Flows has been a long one. Microsoft has been committed to bringing parity to Flow when compared to Classic Workflows. We are almost there but this is only half the...
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It's time to add some finishing touches to your PCF controls!
It is wonderful to see so many PCF controls being built by the community. This post is a call-to-action for all PCF builders - it's time to make sure your PCF component handles read-only and...
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SalesSpark and the Power Apps Component Framework!
Yesterday we announced our new product, SalesSpark, the Sales Engagement platform built natively upon the PowerPlatform 🚀 I've been working on this product for the last few months and have been really...
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MVP Advent Calendar - Smart Buttons for the Unified Interface
Happy 21st December!The chestnuts are roasting, and the snow is falling (somewhere I'm sure). It's that festive time of year again, and with it, a new year is beckoning. We all know that the biggest...
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Adding the PowerApps Solution Checker to your Azure DevOps Pipeline
Continuous Integration and Delivery is somewhat passé these days, but what is often missed is the need for good tests and analysis in your build pipeline. The PowerApps team has been working hard on...
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#ProCodeNoCodeUnite
Technology typically leads to polarized opinions. Always has…Vinyl/CD…Betamax/VHS…HD-DVD/Blu-ray… Of course, our minds know that it depends on the detail, but our hearts have preferences based on our...
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Failed solution upgrade applying 2020 release wave 1
When applying the 2020 release wave 1 you may see a component such as the Dynamics 365 Core Service fail to complete.First, you may want to check that you have correctly followed the steps on how to...
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NetworkView re-written using TypeScript and PCF
Back at the end of 2015, Power Apps wasn’t even a thing. My world revolved around Dynamics 365 and the release cadence that was bringing us updates to the platform that were either keeping up with...
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Debugging Canvas App PCF components with fiddler
Those of you who know me will also know that I am a massive Fiddler fan for removing the need to deploy each time you change your JavaScript source.Here are some of my previous blog posts on Fiddler -...
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PCF Dataset Paging in Model vs Canvas Apps
One of the recent additions to PCF for Canvas Apps is the ability to bind dataset PCF controls to datasets in a Canvas App. A challenge that faces all PCF developers is if their control should support...
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PCF DetailsList Layout with Fluent UI and Sticky
One of the challenges with PCF controls is getting them to reflow to the available space that they are stretched to fill the available space. Doing this using standard HTML involves using the flexbox....
View ArticlePCF DateTimes – the saga continues!
It's been over a year since I last blogged about DateTimes and nearly a decade since I blogged the first time on the subject! CRM DateTimes – so it’s well overdue that I update you on how DateTimes...
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Always be linting your TypeScript!
Linters have been around for ages - it all started back in 1978 apparently - but has now become a mainstay of modern JavaScript and TypeScript programming.Writing code without a linter is like writing...
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Pets vs. Cattle – How to manage your Power App Environments
A situation I see very frequently is where there is a ‘special’ PowerApps environment that holds the master unmanaged customizations. This environment is looked after for fear of losing the ability to...
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Environment Variables in Smart Buttons
A very common request I've had for the Ribbon WorkbenchSmart Button solution is to be able to configure the WebHook/FlowUrl using an Environment Variable. Environment Variables are small pieces of...
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Public Preview of GitHub Actions for Power Platform ALM
There is a new kid in town! Not long after the Power Apps Build Tools for Azure Dev Ops were released out of beta under the new name of Power Apps Build Tools...
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New Smart Button – Custom Dialogs in Model Driven Apps using Canvas Apps
One of the most requested features of Model-Driven Apps ‘back in the day’ was to edit the popup dialog boxes that do actions such as Closing Opportunities or Cases. These were ‘special’ dialogs that...
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Dataverse for Teams vs Canvas Apps - Part 1 - Checked vs Default Control...
If you were thinking that Power Apps Canvas Apps and Dataverse for Teams Canvas Apps are just the same – but with a different license and container – well whilst it is mostly true, there is a very big...
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Everything as Code - ALM with Canvas Apps
With the recent experimental announcement of the PowerApps Solution Packager, we now have a much better way of managing Canvas Apps in your source code repository. This moves us much closer to a better...
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Connection References with ALM – Mind the Gap!
If you are creating Cloud Flows in Solutions today, you are using Connection References. Although they are listed as ‘Preview’ – there really is not an alternative as when you create a new Cloud Flow –...
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Configuring Wave 1 2021 Relevance Search Quick Actions
A hot area of investment from the Dataverse product team in Wave 1 2021 has been the Relevance search experience. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/user/relevance-searchQuick ActionsPart of...
View ArticleIncrease Timeout for pac pcf push
If you are using the latest versions of the PowerApps CLI then much of the implementation now uses the new dotnetcore DataverseServiceClient. You may find that you occasionally get the following error...
View ArticleDeveloping PCF code components using cross-platform dependencies without the...
If you are building code components for Power Apps (PCF) you might be using msbuild to build cdsproj projects:msbuild /p:configuration=ReleaseThis works well on windows, and requires either Visual...
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How to add low-code Power Fx buttons to model-driven apps
Power Fx command bar buttons in model-driven apps is the latest exciting feature to be released into preview by the Power Platform team! Check out my first look video and Casey’s blog post.This post...
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Ribbon Workbench vs. Power Fx Command Buttons
Power Fx command bar buttons (Commanding V2) is the latest exciting feature to be released into preview by the Power Platform team! Check out Casey's blog post and my first look video where I show how...
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Custom page dialogs inside model-driven apps using a Ribbon Workbench smart...
Now that custom pages are released (in preview), we are one step closer to the convergence towards a single app type that has the best of model-driven apps and canvas apps.Previously, I had released a...
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Show custom page dialog using Next Gen Commanding & Smart Buttons
As a follow-on to my last post on adding custom page dialogs to model-driven forms, in this post, I'm going to show you how you can easily do the same using the Next Gen Commanding Buttons.Ribbon...
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Will we learn from virtual events, or will it just be forgotten?
Until recently I didn’t consider attending in-person events at all. I saw calls for speakers for live events - but I just moved on. Sound familiar? I have been avoiding the idea of in-person events...
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Pretty user interfaces shouldn’t be a premium feature
One of the longest-standing mottos of the Power Platform has been ‘no cliffs’. This somewhat odd phrase has definitely stood the test of time due to its simplicity and its powerful message. That is -...
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Canvas app code component error "Couldn't import components"
If you are developing code components (PCF) for canvas apps you'll be used to using the 'Get more components' panel. When adding the code-component to the canvas app, occasionally you will receive the...
View ArticleSwap out old code-components with new using the Power Platform CLI
If you have canvas apps that use code components then you will be used to the hard link between the namespace of the code component and the canvas apps that use it. Also, if you have your canvas apps...
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Error Handling Update/Patch in CommandBar Power Fx buttons
As you know, I'm 'super excited'* about the new Power Fx low-code Command Bar buttons (First Look Video) (Ribbon Workbench compared to Power Fx) - especially the ease at which you can update multiple...
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Modernized Business Units - perhaps finishing off something that was always...
You might have seen the announcement about Modernized Business Units in Microsoft Dataverse.I made a video on it as well to show you the opportunities that it opens up when designing Microsoft...
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'ComponentFramework' is not defined - eslint with pac pcf init
At some point, over the last few months, a change was introduced to the Power Platform CLI such that if you have the ESLint VS Code add-in installed, after using pac pcf init, you may see an error in...
View ArticleWatch out for PCF (code-components) sort silently failing
One of the biggest causes of unexpected bugs in canvas apps is the delegation of queries. For instance, if you want to sort by the owner of an account, you can use the Power Fx...
View ArticleExplicit package exports in the latest version of Fluent UI might break your...
If you are using Fluent UI in your code components (PCF) you probably are also using path-based imports to reduce your bundle size. This technique ensures that when you build your code component, the...
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How to convert a pcf code component to a virtual control
The long-awaited 'virtual control' feature is finally in preview which means you can start to try converting your controls to be virtual - but what does this actually mean?What are virtual code...
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React 18 is not compatible with Fluent UI and how to work around it in PCF...
React version 18 has recently been pushed into npm which is great if all of your components support it, however, if you are working with Fluent UI then you may stumble across the following error:npm...
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Power Apps ESLint plugin replaces Solution Checker for TypeScript code
The Power Apps team have had a long-standing quality tool called the Solution Checker. This was built into the Dataverse solution management interface, ALM Power Platform Build Tools and even a...
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How to update multiple records in a model-driven app grid using Power Fx...
If you wanted to add a button to a command bar to perform an update on multiple records in a grid, you can easily create a formula that results in slow performance caused by multiple grid refreshes....
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Perform complex Dataverse FetchXml queries using Power Fx (from a Canvas App)
One of the constant challenges we face when writing canvas apps and custom pages using Power Fx is ensuring that the queries we use are always delegatable. Not all operators are delegatable to the...
View ArticlePerform ExecuteMultiple in batches and changesets from TypeScript using...
My free tutorial course on writing Dataverse web resources has been available for over a year now, and it has had over 1000 people enrol! The course uses version 1 of dataverse-ify, and of course over...
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Power Fx delegation of 'in' operator against Davaverse
Delegation of queries in Canvas Apps/Custom Pages has long been a troublesome topic and we are always looking out for the triangle of doom, or the double blue underline of eternal stench (well, it is...
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First look at PCF dynamic schema object outputs
One of the new features now supported in PCF (Power Apps Component Framework) code components are 'object outputs'. A PCF component has a manifest file that defines the inputs/output properties that it...
View ArticleHigh severity vulnerability in pcf-scripts package due to dependency on xml2js
Have you noticed recently that when you run npm install on your PCF projects, you get a high severity vulnerabilities error (or maybe you were spammed by the GitHub 🤖 dependabot like I was)?Luckily,...
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