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Category: Power Apps

Configure a Community Portal in Power Portal using Power Apps

Microsoft provides many pre-build templates so that you can use it as a template without creating start from scratch portal. The templates contains all pre-built resources and components you can use. The pre-build portals are available as below. Community Portal Customer Self Service Portal Partner Portal Employee Self Service Portal Customer Portal In this post…
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How to display progress bar using JavaScript for Dynamics 365 CE

Sometimes for long waiting scripts takes time to complete the execution. In this type of scenarios it is best practice to show a progress bar to user so that user will wait till the progress bar closes. In Dynamics 365, You can implement progress bar using JavaScript. The following sample method will tell you how…
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Display in-app notification in model driven apps power apps for Dynamics 365

You can display in-app notifications in Dynamics 365. Follow the below steps: Step 1 – Enable Settings for In-app notification Open a model driven app of your choice and click on F12. in console paste the below code and press enter. Make sure to use correct model driven app unique name. Step 2 – Prepare…
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How to display long text in power portal as form field caption

Sometimes you need to display a paragraph as a caption for a form field in power portal or table form. But table fields do not support paragraphs to display. So how can you do? Follow below steps: Add a section inside tab and in the section label specify the paragraph you want to display. drag…
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Power Automate vs Logic Apps

Power Automate is built on top of Azure Logic Apps but there are differences in terms of the environments they are used from, e.g. Office 365 and Azure, which provides unique features and optional methods of construction. Here are some of the following key differences: Description Power Automate Logic Apps Focus End Users and Makers…
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Create your first PCF custom control step-by-step and deploy in Power Apps

Follow below steps to create your first PCF control for Power Apps. Step 1 – Install Node JS First you have to install node.js using official website of Node JS. Follow the link https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/ to navigate to Node JS site. Click on Windows Installer to download the setup file. chose a folder to save the…
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Connect Dataverse Dynamics 365 using Bearer token using power automate

To connect dynamics 365 dataverse using power automate you need to get the bearer token first. Follow below steps to get bearer token. You need to add URI with tenant id use correct tenant id from azure active directory application. URI = https://login.microsoftonline.com/652c35af-04b4-4d8f-9db0-9bb2c58bc908/oauth2/token Content-Type= application/x-www-form-urlencoded in body put below: (get this client id, client secret…
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Add or Remove items options from Multi-select optionset field (Choices) in Dynamics 365 power apps using javascript

In this article you will see how you can add or remove dynamically optionset values in a multi-select optionset or choices data type field in dynamics 365 power apps. Lets take a scenario: you have two fields one is Gender Choice (Male, Female) (Single select optionset) and another is Degree Choices (MCA, MBA, BTech, Bsc)…
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Hide command button on rule in Power Apps using PowerFX

To set visibility of command button using Power FX follow below steps: Add Command button using Edit in Preview method of Power Apps. Open any model driven app, click 3 dots to choose Edit in Preview and choose entity for which you want to add button. Choose where you want to add button. You can…
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Open custom page as modal pop-up from dynamics 365 power apps

You can open custom pages as a modal pop from Dynamics 365 form custom command button click. Step 1 : Create a Custom Page inside a Solution ( Read here how to add custom page ) Add a custom page inside a solution. The page contains a textbox and a button. on button click we…
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How to display Advanced Form on Power Portal Page

Step 1: Create an Advance Form in Power Portal First create a Advance Form in Power Portal with Advanced Steps. Step 2: Create a Web Page and associate the Advanced form in lookup Step 3: In the Content Page of Web Page, associate the Advanced form in lookup From the localized content area choose the…
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How to display icon in menu power portal

In power portal menu web link set you can display icon instead of text using font awesome classes. In the below screenshot I have a menu called as Student Page and I want to display an user icon instead of text. To change the text to icon navigate to Web link set which represents the…
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Content Snippets in Microsoft Power Portal

Content snippets are small section of editable content that you can place in any webpage, web template of power portal for re-usable concept. You can define your content once and re-use anytime in your portal. Let take an example, You want to keep a formal notice in multiple pages in your power portal then instead of…
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CRUD operation from HTML Web resource using javascript in Dynamics 365 CE CRM

Achieve CRUD operation using HTML Web resource in Dynamics 365 passing parameter from entity form. use the below JS web resource and HTML web resource. HTML Web Resource hope this helps.

Open HTML web resource on button click and pass data to web resource and display related records in table with paging, checkbox from dynamics 365

You can use JavaScript and Client API to open HTML web resource from Dynamics 365 Forms and pass data parameters to the web resource, read the parameter and fetch records using fetchXML from javascript in web resource. The below screenshot shows how the html web resource looks like when button is clicked. Watch video below…
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How to share canvas Power Apps to your peers or other internal users to use

To share a Canvas app to other users navigate to Power Platform Admin center. https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/ Open correct environment you are working. Select Power Apps which will list all power apps. Now select the canvas app from the list and click 3 dots option to choose Share. If you want to make the person as co-owner…
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New feature for Advanced Find in Power Apps, Now enjoy new UI for advanced find in Dynamics 365

First navigate to https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments and then select correct environment. Now you will see an Update section. By default the 2022 release wave 1 is off. click on Manage. In the next side panel click on Update now. Note that the updates cannot be rolled back. If you want to see the new features which are…
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Get Power Platform 2022 Wave 2 Release plan document free

Microsoft planned to release a lot of power feature inside power platform bundle. To go through all features navigate to the below address. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2022wave1/index Download Release PDF Here : https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2184918 For Wave 2, 2022 release plan navigate to below address: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2021wave2/ Download PDF : https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2167228 Hope this helps.

Environment Variables usage in Power Apps

In this post we will see how to create environment variables in a solution. How to use environment variables in canvas app power apps. Watch the video below to learn more. hope this helps.

Get daily reminder from outlook.com using Power Automate

Login to Power Automate. Click on the Templates option and choose the template “Get daily reminders from your outlook email”. After selection the system will ask for outlook.com login. provide your credential of outlook.com and click Continue. Now you will see the trigger as Recurrence and action as send email. Choose the To address and…
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Check page title and display dynamic text using liquid in power portal

Check page and use liquid. hope this helps.

Understanding Record Source Type setting in Basic Forms in Power Portal

Record Source Type setting is used to define how the information is passed to the form: There are 3 types of record source type can be used. Query String – This setting is default when you are creating a table form or a basic form in power portals Studio. When the page that contains the form is…
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Add custom button in power portal list and open external site on click

You can open external URL by specifying URL option in grid configuration in a List in power portal. Go to Portal Management Model driven app and navigate to options, click on create. It will add a create section and in the target type choose URL. Mention the target URL in the box such as “https://logyscal.com/”.…
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Download action in Power Portal Entity List configuration

In Power Portal Table List you can configure Download action option so that when you click the Download button the data from the list will be automatically downloaded in the system. For this open Portal Management Model Driven app and navigate to Lists. Select the List for which you want to enable and in the…
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Use regular expression in Power Portal form field

Regular expression in JavaScript is very powerful way to validate a specific format of a field such as Email, Phone number etc. In Power Portal we can use regular expression to validate form fields without writing code just using configuration. Open the Basic form and go to Form Metadata. Add new form metadata of type…
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