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The Microsoft Creator Kit provides a nice details list control based on Fluent UI. In this post, we will look at how to pass context to a custom page and display records using the details list for Power Apps. We will go through an example of showing related contacts of an account record in a side pane. First, let’s create a new custom page. We will edit the Sales Hub app … Continue reading Fluent UI Details List with Context in Custom Page

In this post, we will look at why you might be missing the Code Components tab in Power Apps and how to resolve it. First, in Power Apps, the code components tab should look like this: And if you wanted to add more code components, you should be able to click on Get more components and see the Code tab: If you are missing the Code tab above, you will … Continue reading Missing Code Components Tab in Power Apps

In a previous post, we looked at how to install and use the Power Apps Creator Kit to create beautiful and consistent user experiences in Power Apps. In this post, we will look at how to use the Fluent Theme Designer in the Power Apps Creator Kit to create themes for your apps. Let’s start with the Canvas Reference Apps. There are 3 apps – canvas template, canvas kit reference … Continue reading Creating Themes with the Power Apps Creator Kit

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 … Continue reading Getting Started with the Creator Kit for Power Apps

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