In my Model-Driven App, I wanted users to be able to use the Quick Create Form when click the New button. Seemed like a pretty simple request, but like most things, it wasn’t. I was able to use the Quick Create From from a Sub-grid or a Lookup, but not a View. What to do?…
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Adventures with Power Platform: Security Role Got Me Again! Ugh!
As I was “sharpening my saw” with deploying Power Platform solutions from one environment to another I ran into a “gotcha” that took a couple of days to resolve! Ugh! Let me set the stage. In my Dev environment I have a solution that contains the following: The Sample 1 Item List cloud flows consists…
Adventures with Power Platform: Toggle Sections in a Model-Driven App with JavaScript
I wanted to create an example of Model-Driven App view where a user could set the value of a Yes/No Choice, which would in turn, toggle the visibility of a specific section within the view. I created a Solution. From my solution, I created a Table in the Dataverse, called Sample 3 – Items. The…
Adventures with Power Platform: Smartsheet Connector
I was asked to create a sample Canvas App that made use of the Smartsheet Connector. I created a Smartsheet account, and created a sheet call Star Wars Characters. I created two flows, one to get the columns and another to get the rows. Now, I realized I could have done this in a single…
Adventures with Power Platform: Model-Driven Apps and JavaScript
If you are a Citizen Developer, don’t let the title of this article discourage you! We are going to look at some code, but not terribly difficult code! It is code you could write or have a traditional developer write for you. A customer was migrating and Access database and was asking how to mimic…
Adventures with Power Apps: Adding Attachments from OneDrive
I wanted to see what the attachment process looked like for adding attachments to a Dataverse entity from my OneDrive account on an iPhone. I already had the Power Apps apps and the OneDrive app installed on my phone. I created a Canvas App for the Contacts entity in the Dataverse. I added an Attachment…
Adventures with Power Apps: View Pull Requests in Azure DevOps in a Canvas App
I had a customer ask if it was possible to create a Canvas App that could display pull requests from Azure DevOps across all projects. Great question! Before I got started, I first had to check to see if there was a connector for Azure DevOps available to the Power Platform. Sure enough! There was…
Adventures with Power Apps: Creating Solutions for Existing Components
I create a Canvas App and a Power Automate Flow. The Flow takes a name input and returns text in the format of Hello name!. Just as a heads up, I also include the name of the flow, as I have multiple flows that do similar things. The Canvas App allows the user to provide…
Adventures with Power Apps: Create a Custom Connector for an API Hosted in an Azure Function Secured with Azure AD
I have an Azure Function that is secured with an identity provider that authenticates against Active Directory. I configured the identity provider using the app registration I created in a previous article, see Adventures with Power Apps: Create a Custom Connector for an API Hosted in Azure APIM Secured with Azure AD – Matt Ruma….
Adventures with Power Apps: Create a Custom Connector for an API Hosted in Azure APIM Secured with Azure AD
I have an API hosted in Azure APIM with a jwt-policy that validates against Azure AD, boy, that was a mouthful! My jwt-policy is located in the All Operations for my API. I created an app registration for my API. I gave it a more “friendly” Application ID URL and exposed an API in the…