Author: Carl

How to Install PowerApps Components from PCF.Gallery to Your Org

The PCF.gallery site contains many PowerApps custom components written by people in the PowerApps community. Some of the controls are really cool, and in this post we will look at how to use the site and install controls in your PowerApps / Dynamics 365 environment to make your orgs even more usable. First, head over to PCF.gallery. You will see links to various controls: You can click on a link to … Continue reading How to Install PowerApps Components from PCF.Gallery to Your Org

Walkthrough of Creating the Microsoft PowerApps PCF Sample Component

In our previous post, we installed the PowerApps CLI and created a PowerApps custom component. In this post, we will go through the Microsoft sample here, where we add code to a PCF project, build the project, create a solution and deploy it to our PowerApps / Dynamics 365 environment to use on a field. First, let’s create a directory LinearComponents to add our control code. We will use the … Continue reading Walkthrough of Creating the Microsoft PowerApps PCF Sample Component

Issue with Running MSBuild on PowerApps Component Framework (PCF) Controls

When creating custom PowerApps Component Framework custom controls, and running MSBuild, you may encounter an error something like below: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersio n.targets(1183,5): error MSB3644: The reference assemblies for framework “.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.2” were not found. To resolve this, install the SDK or Targeting Pack for this framework version or retarget your application to a versio n of the framework for which you have the SDK or Targeting Pack installed. … Continue reading Issue with Running MSBuild on PowerApps Component Framework (PCF) Controls

Creating a Custom Component using the PowerApps Component Framework (PCF)

The PowerApps Component Framework (PCF) is a Microsoft framework for building custom components in PowerApps. Let’s go through what this actually means and how to build these components. In PowerApps and Dynamics 365, fields have types, such as Single Line of Text, Whole Number, Currency etc. For example, if we open our Account entity, we can see there are many fields, and these fields have different types: We can open … Continue reading Creating a Custom Component using the PowerApps Component Framework (PCF)

How to Implement JavaScript Confirmation Dialogs in Power Apps and Dynamics 365

In Power Apps and Dynamics 365, you may need to display a dialog to a user in order to decide which piece of code to run next. We can do this using the command Xrm.Navigation.openConfirmDialog. Let’s look at how to do this from a model-driven Power App. Go to the app and open the Console in your browser’s developer tools. The function takes the following parameters: Xrm.Navigation.openConfirmDialog(confirmStrings,confirmOptions).then(successCallback,errorCallback); Let’s start with … Continue reading How to Implement JavaScript Confirmation Dialogs in Power Apps and Dynamics 365

Accept all Defaults with npm init -y

npm init prompts you for each attribute of your package.json. Pressing enter on each line means the text in brackets will be used: This produces a package.json file like below: Or, you can accept all defaults automatically with: npm init -y The package.json looks like:  

How to Install Postman for Windows

The Postman Chrome extension is being deprecated and replaced with Postman for Windows. To install it, head over to https://www.getpostman.com/downloads/ and click Download: We will download the Windows 64-bit app. Click to open the exe: From here, the Windows app will install and open:  

Installing Microsoft Flow Addin for Excel and Selected Row Email Demo

In this post, we will look at how to install and use the Microsoft Flow Add-In for Excel. First, open Excel and go to Office Add-Ins, then select Microsoft Flow for Excel (Preview). Click Add: You will see: The Add-in is now ready to use. Let’s create a new spreadsheet, Customers, with a column for the Customers, and we will make this selection a table by highlighting then selecting Table … Continue reading Installing Microsoft Flow Addin for Excel and Selected Row Email Demo

Enabling the 2019 Release Wave 2 Preview in the Power Platform

To enable your Org to use the 2019 Release Wave 2 Preview, log into https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/ and select your org: On the right in Updates, click Manage: You will see: 2019 release wave 2 Update now and your end users get new features in: PowerApps and Platform Dynamics 365 Sales Dynamics 365 Customer Service Dynamics 365 Marketing All updates will happen at once. Note this cannot be undone. Click Update Now: Enter the … Continue reading Enabling the 2019 Release Wave 2 Preview in the Power Platform

Embedding and Viewing an AI Builder Model in PowerApps and Dynamics 365

In our last post, we created a Binary Classification model using the AI Builder in Microsoft PowerApps. In this post, we will continue the example and embed the results in a PowerApp / Dynamics 365 so users can view these results. First, select the AI Model and in the bottom, click Publish: This will publish the model: Once complete, the model will show as “Live”: Now, let’s add this to … Continue reading Embedding and Viewing an AI Builder Model in PowerApps and Dynamics 365