This blog will discuss a workaround to solve the "PA3005" error that occurs when attempting to unpack a Canvas App. Indeed, this error occurs when validating the *.msapp source file of some CanvasApps. Below is the output of the command when I tried to unpack my "mySuperCanvasApp.msapp": The tool returns the validation error: Connection 'UsersList_1' … Continue reading Unpack Canvas App Error PA3005: Connection ‘XXX’ does not have a corresponding data source… How to get around this issue ?
How to pass an object from a model app driven app to a custom page?
According to the current documentation, we can pass a dataverse record as a parameter. This is still very beneficial for some scenarios. But what if we want to pass a set of parameters without using an existing record. After several attempts, I managed to pass an object containing some properties from the model driven app … Continue reading How to pass an object from a model app driven app to a custom page?
Tired of creating a new console application to connect to Dynamics 365 CRM/Dataverse? Use a template!
Sometimes we are asked to create console applications that interact with Dynamics CRM/ Dataverse, and like every new developer, we create a new project and look for a piece of code on the internet to start, or we copy existing code from an old project. I used this approach during all my projects, today I … Continue reading Tired of creating a new console application to connect to Dynamics 365 CRM/Dataverse? Use a template!
How to display a Power Apps | Canvas app in full screen without the title bar?
Recently, I was asked to open a PowerApps | Canvas app without the title bar at the top of the screen. After some research, I found an answer from matthew devaney that proposed to add the "&hidenavbar=true" parameters to the URL of the application. This works perfectly and allows us to hide the title bar. … Continue reading How to display a Power Apps | Canvas app in full screen without the title bar?
Implementing triggers for Power Automate flows that are not supported by the Dataverse connector
The Dataverse connector allows us to trigger Power Automate Cloud flows based on events that occur on Dataverse. These events include the creation, deletion and modification of a record or the execution of an action or from a step in a business process flow. Generally speaking, these triggers serve a large variety of requirements and … Continue reading Implementing triggers for Power Automate flows that are not supported by the Dataverse connector
Dynamics 365 Developer Toolkit reborn as Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio 2019
Power Platform Developers who were using the Dynamics 365 Developer toolkit had issues connecting to online Dataverse instances after the regional discovery service was deprecated in June 2021. This toolkit was last updated in 2017 July and its source is not on GitHub. After the regional discover service deprecation this effectively stopped connecting to online instances, and no updates/fixes were published by SDK team. Dynamics 365 community member Mehdi El Amri (XrmTricks) had found a work around and details are on his blog post here. Since its not open source, community members cannot update the toolkit to work with the latest versions of the SDK.
Well, Power Platform SDK team at Microsoft has been busy and they have now published the preview version of the reborn developer toolkit with the name Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio.
I have installed and tested this toolkit and able to connect to…
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Pass data from Custom page dialog to the parent model driven app
The new Custom Page component can be opened as a dialog in a model driven app. This feature will allow app makers to quickly create intuitive dialogs without code with a rendering that is close to the standard model driven app's dialogs, since it uses Fluent UI controls that are also used by Model Driven … Continue reading Pass data from Custom page dialog to the parent model driven app
Let’s add terms and conditions to a Model Driven App using Custom Page
This blog will discuss a new component for Power Apps Model Driven Apps called Custom Page. In fact, this component joins the family of existing pages like Forms, Views and Dashboards. This new type of page is based on the Canvas Apps container and will surely add power, flexibility and a lot of possibilities to … Continue reading Let’s add terms and conditions to a Model Driven App using Custom Page
First look at the multi-tab panel (sidePanes)
In this blog, we will discuss a new feature that will be available in the Powerplatform Wave 2 2021 release, it is about the side panel that appears on the right side of an MDA, you can find the announcement of this new feature on the following documentation: Model driven apps support multiple app side … Continue reading First look at the multi-tab panel (sidePanes)
Integrate the approval center into a model driven app/Dynamics 365 CE
Power Automate provides a standard solution to manage approvals in a Dataverse environment. Approval requests can be easily generated from cloud flows. Users have the ability to view and respond to approval requests from email, teams or the approval center which is accessible from the power automate website only. Today, I will present a way … Continue reading Integrate the approval center into a model driven app/Dynamics 365 CE
XRM Tricks (Power Platform & Dynamics CRM ) 