I was working on a Custom Page, which needs to show custom icons in low-code but also inside a complex PCF on the same page. I’ve found very valuable blogs in the community, and added a few small experiments on top. This is more a note to myself, but maybe it’ll be useful for somebody else. Custom SVG Icons in Custom Pages (& Canvas Apps) First of all, I need an SVG. I’ve decided to pick one from the Fluent UI 9 (without including the library). To pick one svg from there, I went to the Fluent UI 9 Icons Catalog, picked the AccessibilityCheckmark24Regular, opened the Developer Tools (F12 ..read more

I often get asked where to start learning PCF. What are the prerequires? And there are more advanced questions which are hidden inside official documentation or blogs. Often search engines (or even Copilot) doesn’t find them. I’ll try to make this blog your starting point where you can find out about the learning sources I know. I promise to add more content, when I hear something new, and keep this blog up-to-date. PreRequires Setup Environment setup Prerequired Knowledge Overview of PCF development Create a PCF project using pac cli Manifest (ControlManifest.Input.xml) Component impleme ..read more

I hope that this issue get fixed soon. But I was stuck with it since about two months now, and I saw a lot of questions in the community. Until we get a fix, I hope my workaround will help you. The issue Starting with the “pac cli” v 1.29.6 , we see in the release notes The PCF developer are used to use “pac pcf push -pp <yourPublisher>” to upload debug versions of the PCF. But with “pac cli” version, it stopped working. (Besides that, using the “–solution-unique-name” parameter didn’t work nether). The symptoms If a PCF with your publisher was already uploaded The errors we get are dif ..read more

I love colorful apps! To create beautiful apps, also the self created code components must align to the app theming. Recently the docs got extended with explanations on how to use theming, and we’ve got an example ho wto use it Modern theming API. It is a preview feature, but I had to try it out, and I’ve chosen to apply the theming to my ToDo dataset example, which is based on Fluent UI v9. In the docs (links above) there are also explanations on how to convert the theme and use it with Fluent UI v8, but this is not the subject of this blog. Theming in Canvas Apps/ Custom Pages If you are awa ..read more

Custom Events for PCF is a much awaited feature. Lately we’ve got the documentation for events: how to declare events in the manifest how to use the events in the PCF code The types are not there yet (so it seems that the events are not fully supported for now), but to be able to test them, we can add a “featureconfig.json” file to our project, and define the {“pcfAllowEvents”: “on”} there. Please note that this is unsupported, and shouldn’t be used in production fow now. Events available before We were able to use events before. But we were very limited, because we could use only trigger st ..read more

A very short troubleshooting blog for today. I was very happy when I saw Daniel Laskewitz’s post, about the “Power Platform CLI: September Release”. Especially the “pac power-fx” looks awesome. I can imagine using it a lot in the future; right from inside my tools I use every day, without having to leave Visual Studio Code. Inside my standalone “pac cli”, “pac power-fx” was available, but somehow doesn’t worked. But after a few days the power-fx command was available in the VSCode Extension. Was very exciting to try the commands, and see that we can interact with Dataverse. You just need: pac ..read more

When we use Power Apps Grid customizer control, there could be cases when the rendering depends on the other cells. We cannot control when the cell rendering happens, and the Power Apps Grid doesn’t always rerender the cells when the data wasn’t changed (or doesn’t provide the updated data). In this blog I’m talking about how to work arround this issue, and create your own events for cell renderer. The use case This blog applies to all dependency cases, but it’s easier to explain looking to a specific use-case. Do you remember the example from the docs, which shows the CreditLimit in red or bl ..read more

Lately I had a requirement to show the documents from SharePoint related to a Dynamics 365 implementation. The Canvas App or Custom Page should be able to show an overview of more SharePoint sites. I’m a newbie to SharePoint documents integration, so I’ve started to search the blogs and docs out there. Since I had to research, experiment and figure out some points by myself, I’m writing this blog as a note to myself, hoping that it might help you too. In case you know a better way, would be nice to leave me a note. Thousand thank you to Reza Dorrani! I’ve learned so much from his awesome video ..read more

There are a few blogs about opening the records of a subgrid in a dialog. For instance “CLICKING ON A SUBGRID TO OPEN A MODAL FORM IN DYNAMICS 365” by Carl de Souza (for Editable Grid), “Open sub-grid records in a modal (dialog) form using the new “Power Apps grid control” by Dani Kahil. the learn page for “OnRecordSelect” is showing an example of auto-open dialog on record select. While dialogs are a much better user experience than navigating away, I would like to write about another option we can use: side-by-side editing using Side Panes (here the learn sdk link). The difference between ..read more

Disabling controls on a form is a top requirement for model-driven apps projects. Of course this logic needs to be enforced on grids too. Right now on views we can use Editable Grid or the Power Apps Grid standard PCFs to edit the data, where we can set the if the grids are editable. At this point is all-or-nothing: set all columns on editable/or not. In order to disable specific columns, or to disable only some cells based on dynamic conditions (so possible based on other cells) we can use the JavaScript WebResources. To customize that, we can use the “Events” tab, select the event “OnRecordS ..read more