ENGINEERED CODE BLOG

Power Apps Portals: Related Records Filtering on Lookups When Creating Records via Subgrid

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Nicholas Hayduk

The power of Entity Forms in Power Apps Portals is that they mirror much of the functionality available in model-driven apps (and Dynamics 365). While the parity isn’t 100%, one advanced feature that Entity Forms does support is Related Records Filtering on lookups, where the available options in the lookup are filtered by some other data that has already been selected. However, in certain cases, this functionality doesn’t offer exact parity out-of-the-box – one of those cases is when you are creating a new record via a subgrid, and you’re expecting that the parent record is used in the filtering of the lookup.

Power Apps Portals: Customizing the Rendering of Notes and Activities

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Nicholas Hayduk

I’ve always been an advocate for using CSS to control the visibility of out-of-the-box Power Apps Portals features. Unfortunately, sometimes CSS isn’t enough, and you do have use JavaScript. And even then, sometimes you have to resort to some exotic techniques – one of those times is customizing some aspects of how notes and activities are rendered on Power Apps Portals.

Power Apps Portals: Rich Text Editor on Entity Forms

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Nicholas Hayduk

I’ve been asked a few times about how you can add a rich text editor to Entity Forms or Web Forms on Power Apps Portals, and while I haven’t had the need to do this for a real implementation, I was curious to try it out. In the process, I found out about a setting I didn’t know existed that’s been around for at least a few years.

Power Apps Portals: Modifying Option Set Options on an Entity Form

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Nicholas Hayduk

If you’ve come from the world of Dynamics 365 (or CRM…) and are starting to work with Portals, it can be frustrating when you discover that client-side JavaScript code that works great in your model-driven app doesn’t work on a Power Apps Portal – especially because Entity Forms and Web Forms are marketed as a technology that exposes your existing forms to the web. This post we look at why it doesn’t translate, and provide some code that solves a common request: modifying the available options in an option set.

Power Apps Portals: Print Invoices

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Nicholas Hayduk

The topic of my first Portals Community Call back in January was the how to build a portal that allows a customer to view and print invoices. While solutions for this has been described by others (including Megan V. Walker’s excellent post), I also presented a different approach that I thought was worth covering in a blog post so that I could get a bit more into the technical details.

Power Apps Portals: New Related Record is Unrelated?

Posted on February 27, 2020 by Nicholas Hayduk

For the most part, Entity Lists try to mirror the functionality of the selected model-driven form in CDS. This means that certain settings on the model-driven form can have a significant impact on how things work in Power Apps Portals, event if it is not obvious at first. In this post, I’ll cover one of those not-so-obvious (at least to me) settings – Show Related Records.

Power Apps Portals: Version 9.1.11.x Release

Posted on February 2, 2020 by Nicholas Hayduk

For the most part I don’t blog about the (roughly) monthly releases for Power Apps Portals, mostly because they deal with bug fixes for relatively obscure issues. However, last month I was happy to see a few items on the list that I’ve been waiting for, and I thought were worth sharing.

Power Apps Portals and the 2020 Wave 1 Release Plans: Something for Everyone

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Nicholas Hayduk

My latest article for MSDynamicsWorld.com was published today. It talks about the Power Apps Portals-related features in the 2020 Wave 1 Release Plans announced by Microsoft today, including updates to the Power Apps Portals Studio, and the CRUD API we’ve all been waiting for!

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Power Apps Portals: fetchxml Liquid Tag and Entity Permissions

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Nicholas Hayduk

The fetchxml Liquid tag is arguably the most powerful Liquid tag in Power Apps Portals – it allows you to meet complex requirements for the display of data. But, if you combine it with a complex Entity Permissions model, you could find yourself getting unexpected errors. In this post I’ll cover what can cause those errors, and how to work around them.

Power Apps Portals: Where You Put Your JavaScript Matters

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Nicholas Hayduk

One of the most frustrating things that can happen when developing any type of software is when you’ve got the code correct but, due to it being in the wrong place, it doesn’t work as you’ve expected. A recent question on the community forums highlights the importance of putting your JavaScript in the right place.