Author: Carl

In this post, we will look at how to implement Custom Tracing in Monitor and App Insights with Power Fx. First, let’s create a new Custom Page, and add a button to the page with the label “Run Trace”: The syntax for the trace function from the Microsoft documentation is: Let’s add the following Trace statement to the OnSelect of the button. Note the 3rd parameter is an object where … Continue reading Custom Tracing in Monitor and App Insights with Power Fx

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 … Continue reading Using Power Apps Monitor for Troubleshooting

In this post, we will look at how to use Power Fx in a model-driven app button. First, let’s go over to the Power Apps Maker portal at https://make.powerapps.com and select Edit: This takes us to the app designer, and from here we can select an entity such as the Account and then Edit the Command Bar: We are now prompted to select which command bar to edit. The choices … Continue reading Using Power Fx in a Model-Driven App Command Bar Button

In this post, we will look at how to navigate to a custom page using Power Fx, rather than using JavaScript to open the page. Select a button. We will use the custom Run Power Fx button that we created in a previous post: Select the button, and type in the Navigate function. We see we want navigate to a custom page, entity record, and entity list: As you type … Continue reading Navigating to a Custom Page using Power Fx

In this post, we will look at how to create simple Custom Pages in Model-Driven Power Apps. We will build on this simple page in more future posts. To create a custom page, go to the Power Apps maker at https://make.powerapps.com and select an App to add the page. We will select Sales Hub, and Edit the app: With Pages selected, select Add Page: Select Custom: We will create a new … Continue reading Creating Simple Custom Pages in Power Apps