Category: Power Apps / Custom Pages / Dataverse / Power Fx

Creating Service Principals Really Easily Using Pac Cli

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 … Continue reading Creating Service Principals Really Easily Using Pac Cli

Installing PCF.Gallery Components When No solution.zip Exists

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  … Continue reading Installing PCF.Gallery Components When No solution.zip Exists

Setting Default Publisher Prefix using Preferred Solutions in Power Apps

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 … Continue reading Setting Default Publisher Prefix using Preferred Solutions in Power Apps

Troubleshooting Power Platform Tools pac cli exception

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 … Continue reading Troubleshooting Power Platform Tools pac cli exception

Embedding Canvas Apps in Model Driven App Forms Revisited

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 … Continue reading Embedding Canvas Apps in Model Driven App Forms Revisited

Disabling Try The New Look Switch in Power Apps

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 … Continue reading Disabling Try The New Look Switch in Power Apps

Checking out the New Enterprise Application Templates

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 … Continue reading Checking out the New Enterprise Application Templates

Building Power Apps from Scratch Using Copilot AI

Microsoft has been working hard of adding AI into several products including Power Apps. In this post, we will look at how to use the preview feature of the Power Apps maker portal to build apps using Microsoft’s Copilot AI feature. First, head over to https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/ and select Settings, then select Copilot (preview). If you don’t see this option, you may need to join a trial waitlist. Be sure to turn … Continue reading Building Power Apps from Scratch Using Copilot AI

5 Cool Early Access Features for Power Platform 2023 Release Wave 1

The Power Platform 2023 Release Wave 1 has a whole bunch of new and exciting features. In this post, we will look at 5 new early access features you can turn on right now. Note these are pre-release features and not to be used just yet in production environments. 1. See Which Colleagues are Viewing the Same Records as You This feature can be turned on by going to the … Continue reading 5 Cool Early Access Features for Power Platform 2023 Release Wave 1