New Navigation for Power Apps Maker Portal

If you have launched the preview maker portal in the last week or so, you might have seen some big changes in the navigation and the ability to customize this to fit the needs of the maker. In this post, I will demonstrate some of the new highlights of the new preview portal (currently in Preview), and discuss some of the benefits.

Visualizing the Notifications

he ability to send notifications to the user (as In-App Notification, Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Teams). In this post, I will demonstrate how to show the notifications that have been sent to the user on the Contact record as a virtual dataset pcf control.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2023 Release Wave 1 Plans

Yesterday (January 25, 2023), Microsoft release their plans for Microsoft Dynamics 2023 Release Wave 1. These release plans are available in various formats and can be accessed on the Microsoft Learn site, the Microsoft Release Planner or can be downloaded as PDFs.

Virtual table creation in Maker Portal

As part of the 2023 Wave 1 Release Plan, Microsoft simplified the process of connecting to external data and creating virtual tables from within the Maker portal. This process makes creating these connections very easy, and results can be seen in a manner of minutes. Configuration is now at the fingertips of citizen developers as well.

In-app notifications vs external notifications

In-app notifications have been a great addition to the Platform and highly usable by providing notifications to the end users within their Model-driven app, but not always will the user “notice” these and different ways of notifications can be used. There is nothing new is this post as far as …

Dialogs in Modern Command Bars

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced the availability of displaying dialog boxes using the Power Fx function for modern Commanding. This new functionality provides the ability to have your Modern commanding component library show custom dialog boxes that can be customized to your needs, and respond to user action with Power FX.