PCF: Theme and missing border radius tokens
In one of my recent PCF controls, I decided to go “all-in” on Fluent UI v9 Theme Tokens. The idea was simple – no hardcoded styles at all. Colors, font sizes, spacing,…
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Stop Typing, Start Testing: Fast Data Entry in Dataverse with LevelUp
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…
PCF: Using in Panels and Dialogs
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…
PCF: Direct embedding of Controls into SiteMap
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…
How to make Virtual PCFs work with FluentUI 9 Components were introduced after version 9.46.2
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…
PCF: Extended work with linking in Dataset PCF Components
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…
Code to Excel: Export Like a Pro!
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…
Updating PCF Controls to support new UI
In this post, I will share my experience updating one “Lookup to Optionset” PCF control I developed a while ago. You can check the video and/or source code if you are unfamiliar…
Creating Model Driven Apps Side Panels like a boss
If you use model-driven applications regularly you might notice a “Copilot” Side Pane that appears immediately after your app (Sales/Service/Marketing/Something Else) is loaded: I decided to investigate and share how to create…
Canvas Apps: Watch PCF Component
Historically, I had no projects where I could work with CanvasApps/Custom Pages. The basics that I learned during the App-in-the-day classes didn’t give me a full understanding of where such apps can…