When creating integrations with Dynamics 365, one of the common steps is to set up a service principal in Azure. There are several steps to set this up, including: Creating an Azure App Registration Creating a secret Setting up API permissions Creating an Application User in the Power Platform Admin Center Assigning permissions to that Application User What if I told you you can do all of this with one … The post Creating Service Principals Really Easily Using Pac Cli appeared first on Carl de Souza ..read more

In a previous post, we looked at how to use the PCF.Gallery site to install custom PCF components when a solution has been provided by the developer in GitHub. In some cases, the solution.zip file may not exist. Let’s look at how to deploy these components to an org so we can use them. Note you will need to go through these instructions here to set up your PowerApps Component Framework  … The post Installing PCF.Gallery Components When No solution.zip Exists appeared first on Carl de Souza ..read more

Microsoft has released new preview functionality to help making building Power Apps easier. In fact, this simple change will help a lot of developers from making a fairly common mistake, which is creating objects outside of a solution and thereby having these objects named with the publisher prefix of new_. No more! In this post, we will look at Preferred Solutions, which allow us to define a default solution and … The post Setting Default Publisher Prefix using Preferred Solutions in Power Apps appeared first on Carl de Souza ..read more

Sometimes you may run into issues when running the Power Platform CLI, or pac cli. As an example, trying a simple pac auth create stopped working for me. The error produced was: Sorry, the app encountered a non recoverable error and will need to terminate. The exception details have been captured and will be forwarded to the development team, if telemetry has been enabled. Exception Id: 10ff1f33-efd2-42f8-b5bf-701af0bd5972, Exception Type: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception … The post Troubleshooting Power Platform Tools pac cli exception appeared first on Carl de Souza ..read more

Canvas apps can be embedded in model-driven app forms, with the option to pass the record context. This can be very useful when we think about extending our model-driven apps forms to include canvas app capabilities. I wrote a post about embedding canvas apps in model-driven apps a few years ago, and this post is revisiting that with record context and the new app designer. Let’s go through an example … The post Embedding Canvas Apps in Model Driven App Forms Revisited appeared first on Carl de Souza ..read more

The new modern look for Power Apps is really cool! It’s so cool in fact that I went through it in a video on Power Platform TV, you can watch the video here (subscribe if you haven’t already!) What we’re seeing in Release Wave 2 for 2023 is an option for users to be able to toggle between the old (current) Power Apps and Dynamics 365 and the new refresh modern … The post Disabling Try The New Look Switch in Power Apps appeared first on Carl de Souza ..read more

Microsoft has released the public preview of the new enterprise application templates, which are pre-built solutions that automate common business processes. The tools are “designed to be accelerators” rather than training tools. Microsoft has released Finance templates (SAP connector) and HR templates (Kudos, Awards, and Onboarding templates). Let’s install and take a look at the Kudos template. To install the Employee Kudos template, click here and log into your org, and click Get … The post Checking out the New Enterprise Application Templates appeared first on Carl de Souza ..read more

Landing pages are a nice way to greet a user of an app, and provide them with personalized information. In this post, we will look at how to create a landing page for model driven apps. Landing pages are basically the first page a user sees when they land on an app. An example landing page I like is the Trial Home you get with a Customer Service workspace trial: To build something like this, let’s go to the Power Apps Maker portal at https://make.powerapps.com and edit the app we want this page to reside. Let’s use the Sales Hub app as an example. Under Apps, select it and click Edit: Now cl ..read more

The Creator Kit for Power Apps is a toolkit developed by Microsoft’s Power CAT team and the community. It helps you “easily create consistent, beautiful, and effective user experiences for custom business applications”. All controls are built on the FluentUI framework that is used throughout Microsoft applications, so using these controls means your app will have a beautiful, native Microsoft user experience. In this post, we will look at how to install and use the Creator Kit with Canvas Apps and Custom Pages in Power Apps. To install the creator kit, go to https://aka.ms/creatorkit and ..read more

The Monitor tool in Power Apps helps with troubleshooting and diagnostics for your application. Monitor provides great features, such as performance (slow loading times), errors, and inspect traffic. Monitor can be used with Canvas apps and Model-driven apps. We will focus on Model-driven apps in this post. To access the Monitor tool, head to https://make.powerapps.com and select an app you would like to monitor, then click Monitor: This takes us over to the Monitor tool, and we can see “You have started a new Monitor session”: Now let’s click the Play model-driven app button: Thi ..read more