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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

Exploring the Web API

At times, you may have to interact with the Dataverse Web API inside your code component. For example, let's say you have a Primary Contact defined on an account, but you want to update that contact information on the account form itself. So, you create a code component that will show all the relevant information about that contact on the account, but also allows you to update their contact information. In order to update the primary contact, you will have to utilize the Dataverse Web API. The framework provides five functions for interacting with the data in Dataverse: createRecord, updateRecord, deleteRecord, retrieveRecord, and retrieveMultipleRecords.

In this section, we will look at how to use these functions by creating a simple code component. Similar to the code component we created for external devices, we will add five buttons, each of which will represent the five functions provided by the Web API. Each of these buttons will be bound to its...