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Category: Power Apps

Download File using PowerFX in Power Apps Canvas App

You can download online Files to your local machine using PowerFX. Follow below steps. Step 1 : Create a Canvas App with components In Power Apps maker, create a canvas app and add a button component on screen and add below PowerFX in OnSelect property. Download(“https://grad.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/cvsamples.pdf”) Hope this helps.

Patch Function in Custom Pages Power Apps

In Power Apps, you can create a Custom Page to leverage the Canvas App capabilities inside Model Driven App. In this post you will learn how to CREATE or UPDATE Dataverse records from custom page. Create a custom page inside your solution with a gallery connected to Contact table, another gallery to display Rate Of…
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Get set Combo-Box value with choice column in canvas app Power Apps

In Canvas App, Combo Box can be used to display choice columns to select one item at a time or multi-item at a time. Here in this post you will learn how to connect Choice columns to a combo-box and dynamically get and set value using PowerFX. Watch the video below. Hope this helps.

How to debug JavaScript in model-driven power apps and Dataverse

To Debug JavaScript code, you need to enable Developer mode in browser as scripts are client side codes and runs only on browsers. watch the below video to learn more. Hope this helps.

Update all changes of a collection into Data Source from Canvas App Power Apps

Collection is a better way to store local data without connecting data source directly. This makes apps faster. But if you forget to update to actual data source, the changes done to the collection data, you will loose all updates once you close the app. So its very important to send collection updates back to…
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Event Pipeline execution model in Dataverse plugins – pre-validation, pre-operation, core-operation, post-operation

Learn about Event Pipeline execution model in Dataverse plugins – pre-validation, pre-operation, core-operation, post-operation. Hope this helps.

Filter dependent lookups/combo boxes in Canvas App or Custom Page with Dataverse

Most of the times in business requirements, you might need to implement Dependent Option sets/lookups in Canvas Apps power apps or custom pages to display related set of records depending on parent record selection. Take a business scenario below. Business Scenario There are 3 tables Contacts, Bank Accounts and Transactions. One contact may have multiple…
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Add CSS Styles to Canvas App Power Apps Use Box border shadow for button look and feel

This post will explain how you can add CSS using HTML coding inside Canvas App. You will see how the normal rectangle can be converted to a 3D division given in below screenshot. Follow the steps below. Step 1: Create a Canvas App and select a Screen to add HTML Text component Inside your canvas…
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Barcode scanner app using canvas app power apps and capture customer signature using pen component

For every delivery business, you must need to capture the delivery information and its status. When a delivery boy delivers the product, the delivery need to scan the barcode of the physical product and capture signature of the customer so that the data will be saved in Dataverse. if you want to know how to…
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Debug a Published canvas App using Monitor Feature inside Power Apps

If you have published a canvas app and it throws some error and you want to debug, you can do it. First you have to enable the Debug published feature for your power apps using power apps settings. Open the Power Apps studio and go to settings and enable the feature given the below screenshot.…
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Working with Monitor features in Canvas Apps Power Apps

Monitor feature inside canvas app studio helps tracing events as they occur in a canvas app during the authoring in Power Apps Studio, or you can use Monitor to debug the published version of a canvas app. Follow the steps to monitor a scenario to know how to Monitor a canvas app while authoring. Step…
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[Solved] Failed to delete Fields (XXX). Object dependencies exist, please review before deleting error in Power apps

In a power app solution, you can remove a component or delete a component. Removing component will just remove the component from your solution but will be available in Default solution. If you delete a component, it will completely deleted from Organization. You will not find the deleted component from default solution also. Always prefer…
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Managed Environment in Power Platform

Managed Environments is a suite of capabilities that allows admins to manage Power Platform at scale with more control, less effort, and more insights. Administrators can use Managed Environments with any type of environment. You can manage Limit Sharing, Configure Weekly Digest and Data Policies configuration in Managed environments. A Trial environment can also be…
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[Answered]How to update latest release in Power Apps

Microsoft releases its new features every 6 months. To update the Power apps with new Wave fatures you can follow below steps. Step 1 : Navigate to Admin Power Platform Center Open browser and navigate to admin.powerplatform.com and then click Environments option then choose correct environment where you want to update. In the environment screen…
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Display only current user records using powerfx in canvas app gallery

Most of the times you need to filter records of a gallery in canvas app to display only records created by current login user. So how can you do this. You can use below PowerFX for the gallery. The below power fx uses search functionality with filter to only fetch created by user is current…
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How to enable Export PDF option for custom entities/tables in Dataverse Model Driven apps Dynamics 365

In Dynamics 365 Sales, you have seen that there is an EXPORT TO PDF button available for Quote and on clicking of which you can choose a Quote document template and you can download the PDF or send the PDF as an attachment to respective customer of your choice. The below snapshots are from Quote…
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RetrieveMultiple Plugin Code to Change View using normal view and Advance Find Views in Dynamics 365 power apps

You can use retrievemultiple message if you want to manipulate the records displayed in a view in power apps views or advance find views. The below plugin code will only display competitor relationship type accounts records if the current user is a IT User else it will display all other account records without relationship type…
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COE Creator Kit Full Tutorial for Power Apps

COE Creator Kit for Power Apps is a set of re-usable Fluent UI components that you can use in building Custom Pages, Canvas Apps and Themes without writing single line of code. Also this gives your app a consistent look and feel and more productive feature all modern apps need. Watch the video video I…
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Add FluentUI Datalist grid in Canvas Power Apps or Custom Pages with Creator Kit Power Platform

Microsoft Power Apps are a set of robust application development platform which provides maximum flexibility to integrate latest UI and UX trends like Microsoft Fluent UI and material designs with tools. Here in this post we will discuss how to use Fluent UI components like Details List, Dialogs, Panels, Command Bars etc in Power Apps…
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Synchronous call from JavaScript to Dynamics 365/ Dataverse Web API using XML HTTP

If you want to call Dataverse/ Dynamics 365 Web API using synchronous calls with XML HTTP object with JavaScript then use the below code and update your code accordingly. The below code snippet checks if a matching enrollment record exist for the same student and course then alerts message and restricts save operation. This function…
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Convert Images to Power Apps – How to Demo

You can now convert hand prepared form images to a powerful power apps. Lets take an example of below image with some texts and diagrams . Lets see how you can convert this to power apps. Step 1 – Save your image in your local machine prepare your diagram image and scan it or take…
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Convert Figma UI to Power Apps with easy steps

Figma is a powerful app to create mockup screens and prototypes. Now you can easily create Figma frames UI and convert to power Apps. Follow below steps. Step 1 : Create Figma Frame UI login to figma.com and create a new Figma design file. But before that you need to generate a personal key. Click…
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Pre-requisites to connect Dynamics 365 CE Dataverse Web API

To connect Dataverse and Dynamics 365 CE Web API from external Apps such as Power Automate, C#, JS etc. you need to collect some information with you. Follow the steps below. Step 1 – Register App in Azure Active Directory The first step is to create an App in Azure Active Directory and copy Client…
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Expected polymorphic value canvas app

if you are getting this error in canvas app that means you are not assigning a correct polymorphic data type. Use the Power FX as given below screenshot Hope this helps. Create a lookup function and assign it.

Update multi-entity lookup using Patch function in Canvas APP with Dataverse

If you are looking for complete article how to perform CRUD operation for polymorphic lookup field value then read this article HERE. You can also use Patch function to send data from canvas app to Dataverse using Patch function from a FORM. use below powerfx. You can use a toggle button to decide what type…
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Polymorphic lookup field Value CRUD operation from Canvas App with Dataverse

You might have used polymorphic lookup field which can hold reference of multiple tables like Customer Data Type which can hold contact or account. SO for this type of complex data types its is not straight forward to handle CRUD operation from canvas app. Let us see here how to Create a record in Dataverse…
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