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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

Understanding the technique to open a record from a dataset

The current out-of-the-box sub-grid allows you to open a record when you double-click on it and shows a hyperlink to the lookups, which makes it more user-friendly. But when you create code components, you have to implement these features on your own and it will vary based on the design of your code component.

Let's expand our code component that will show a hyperlink on the primary field and lookups, which when clicked will open those records. We will update the createCardItems method to check whether the datatype of the column is a lookup or primary field, then add a class that will display this record differently than all other records. The following is the updated code snippet on the createCardItems method:

index.ts

if (columnItems.dataType.startsWith('Lookup.') ||   columnItems.isPrimary) {

    content.classList.add("gridText", "gridTextLookup&quot...