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In the previous post, we created a new Custom Workflow Activity and used it in a workflow. Let’s look at how to debug one of these. Open the Plugin Registration Tool (PRT) and select Install Profiler: This may take a few minutes. Once installed, you will see the Plugin Profiler at the bottom of the list: Right-click it and select Start Profiling Workflow: Find your workflow in the list and … Continue reading Debugging a Custom Workflow Activity in Dynamics 365 and PowerApps

In this post, we will create a new Custom Workflow Activity, or Workflow Extension, which allow us to call custom code from workflows in Dynamics 365 and PowerApps. First, let’s look at how these are used. Log into your org and go to Settings->Processes: Let’s create a new workflow with the following. Set name = Test Workflow, Category = Workflow and Entity = Account, then click OK: Under Add Step, … Continue reading Creating Custom Workflow Activities (Workflow Extensions) in Dynamics 365 and PowerApps

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

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

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)

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