During my daily routine, I have to repeat data entry steps to troubleshoot bugs and/or test written code – Create Contact, Create a Child Case, Save, check the result. I believe all developers are going in rounds with this repetitive and annoying routine. Back in time, I created ribbon buttons that were visible only to ...

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In my previous post, I described a way around on how to embed PCFs into MDA. During the investigation of what is possible, I found out that Xrm.Navigation.navigateTo ignores “navigationOptions” so it was not possible to show PCF in modal dialogs. I don’t like limitations, so I was looking for a way around it, and ...

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At the moment, we, as developers, can develop PCF controls of 2 types – “field” bound and “dataset” bound. But what if I need to embed some kind of special visualization directly into the SiteMap of a Model Driven Application? Until today, I knew a few ways to address this requirement: give up on using ...

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In one of my projects, I needed to implement “lookup”-alike control that will be used as a filter for the data shown in the datagrid below. I forced myself to move away from comfy FluentUI 8 and decided to use FluentUI 9 because its usage is coming and I would highly encourage you, my dear ...

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I have been building PCF control since the early days of this Power Platform Component. Even now, after 5 years of using it, I keep finding interesting challenges. In this case, it was linking and filtration of the data based on the further-then-1 hop way from the “main” dataset entity. Challenge Let’s consider the following ...

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Yesterday, I received an interesting task that made me stretch my “developer” muscles. In this case, the task was to export the data to Excel from the client-side code and I was able to master the approach used by Model-Driven Apps natively. Since my research on the subject returned no posts I decided to share ...

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