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 MoreRead Office 365 Message Centre using Office 365 Management API
I started my career as a web developer. Since then it is one of the best decision I have ever taken. Web has been evolving and because of it, low code platforms like Microsoft Flow makes our life a lot easier. In this post, I am going to show you how to read messages from […]
Read MoreCreating a custom connector to upload a file to Google Drive from Power Apps – Part 2
Part 1 can be found here. Swagger time To create a customer connector, you can upload either a swagger file or a Postman collection. I am not a swagger expert. But, apistudio makes my life easier. Let’s jump onto http://specgen.apistudio.io. Paste the URL that you used in Postman. Make sure you are using POST. You should […]
Read MoreCreating a custom connector to upload a file to Google Drive from Power Apps – Part 1
Knowing the limitation Although Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) and Power Apps support ready-to-use connectors for different services, it seems they do not have the same level of offerings between them. In Flow, for instance, there is a connector for Google Drive and there is a bunch of actions like creating/deleting a file, browsing the folder. […]
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