Making a better User Experience with Power Apps component framework from sketch – Part 4 – The Final Showdown
You can read previous post Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Seeing is believing It took me 2.5 days to learn and figure out the design and new technologies I need to build the component. Less than half a day, the mock version of the component was completed. The component was loaded on the […]
Read MoreMaking a better User Experience with Power Apps component framework from sketch – Part 3 – The Slow Start
You can read previous episode Part 1 – The Problem and Part 2 – The Sketch. The Slow Start I always take time to figure out the suitable frameworks and libraries, try them out and learn them, as the first stage, before building. That makes me a slow start. Sometimes, notoriously slow. It is, to […]
Read MoreMaking a better User Experience with Power Apps component framework from sketch – Part 2 – The Sketch
Part 1 – The Problem can be found here. Time for Proof of Concept (PoC) I like building canvas app, for Proof of Concept (PoC) purpose. It is so easy. Drag and drop, a few clicks and formula, and then you can see the result. I thought of building a canvas app in the first […]
Read MoreMaking a better User Experience with Power Apps component framework from sketch – Part 1 – The Problem
Since the public preview of Power Apps component framework (PCF), I always want to build a component that enhances the user experience (UX) in model-driven apps in Common Data Service (CDS) or Dynamics 365. Recently, I had an opportunity to build a component with Power Apps component framework (PCF) that will save several mouse clicks […]
Read MoreSix months after deploying my first canvas app in Power Apps
This post is more of rant than evangelist. In October 2018, I had involuntarily involved in developing Power Apps for one of our clients at work. “Why involuntarily?” you may ask. Well, although I mainly work with Microsoft platform, I play around with iOS and Android native app developments and help out my friends. So, […]
Read MoreChannel Integration Framework with Twilio – Part 1
I have posted the video of incoming call using CIF here. It is a live working demo using Twilio trial account. I am going to share my experience of making this so anyone can easily setup the basic features and start exploring more awesomeness. I have tested the public preview of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Channel […]
Read MorePassing current login user of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Portal to external web app
You can get the detail of current login user in liquid template va user liquid object. There is another way you can get the current login user via XHR call. Microsoft CRM Portal has built-in API to generate JWT of current login user. The API is at https://<crm portal url>/_services/auth/token and returns JWT. This JWT […]
Read MoreMultiple user roles and entity permissions in Microsoft CRM Portal
Before reading the post, you may would like to read the official document on Microsoft at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/portals/assign-entity-permissions. This will give you a basic understanding of entity permissions in Microsoft CRM Portal. Your customer wants to build a portal using Microsoft CRM portal. Connection is used for linking their contacts and accounts. Your customer wants to control […]
Read MoreDefault tab (timeline) of Activity Wall in CRM Portal
Configuration and customization of CRM portal is always fun. You need to pay attention to even the smallest thing as there is no one stop place to configure them. Everything is connected among CRM form, portal entity form, metadata, permissions inheritance, scripts. One mis-configuration would render the form incorrectly. One day, we found that some portal […]
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