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Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework

By : Danish Naglekar
Book Image

Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework

By: Danish Naglekar

Overview of this book

Power Apps Component Framework is used by professional developers to extend the capabilities of model-driven and canvas apps. Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework will take you through the basic as well as advanced topics using practical examples. The book starts by helping you understand the fundamentals of the framework, its lifecycle, and the tools that you'll use to build code components using best practices and file management guidelines. You'll then learn how to extend Power Apps step by step and apply the principles and concepts covered in the book to build code components for field type attributes. The book covers different ways of debugging code components and guides you through the process of building code components for datasets. You'll also explore the functions and methods provided by the framework to enhance your controls using powerful sets of libraries and extensions. As you advance, you'll get to grips with creating and managing authentication profiles, discover different ways of deploying code components, and configure code components in model-driven and canvas apps. Finally, you'll learn some of the important features of the framework and learn modern web development practices. By the end of this Power Apps book, you'll be able to build, debug, enrich, and deploy code components confidently.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Fundamentals of the Power Apps Component Framework
6
Section 2: Building and Managing Code Components
12
Section 3: Enhancing Code Components and Your Development Experience

Defining properties on a dataset

The dataset tag in the ControlManifest.Input.xml file allows you to define properties on a dataset. These properties are like the properties defined in a field-type code component, but instead, the tag is named property-set. When a property is defined on a dataset, the framework includes that property as a column in the dataset, making sure it is available at runtime even when it is not part of the view.

In our example dataset, we will add a property-set to capture a mobile phone number and any record that does not have a mobile phone number will be highlighted in a different color. First, we need to add the property-set in the ControlManifest.Input.xml file, which is shown in the following snippet:

ControlManifest.Input.xml

<data-set name="datasetGrid"

  display-name-key="Data Cards"

  cds-data-set-options=

    "displayCommandBar:true;displayViewSelector:true;

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