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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

Adding a field type code component to a model-driven app

When a code component of the field type is deployed to a Dataverse environment, you can add it to your preferred form in a model-driven app. This transforms a regular field that traditionally contains text into a visualization provided by your code component.

We will be using the MyCharacterCounter code component that we built in Chapter 5, Code, Test, and Repeat, and will configure it on a form. First, you need to deploy this code component in your Dataverse environment; the deployment process was discussed in the Adding multiple code components in a single Dataverse solution section in the previous chapter. Now, using the following steps, we will change a default label and multi-line text box field into a character counter code component on the Contact entity.

At the time of writing this book, we are unable to use Power Apps Maker portal to add code components to a form. Due to this, we will be using a traditional interface...