Category: Powerapps Component Framework (Page 1 of 2)

Extending the Patient Clinical Timeline on Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare

August 25, 2023 / Andrew Ly

The Patient Clinical Timeline enables care managers to track key clinical information such as conditions, episodes of care, procedures, or medications by providing an at-a-glance view via the calendar control.

It also enables the quick creation of events via the control.

One of the key advantages of this control is the ability to extend it to custom tables within your solution.

In this article, we will explain the basics of the configuration of the patient clinical timeline and how to format your configuration schema file properly.

PCF Control – Build your own Icons with Notifications

October 8, 2020 / Andrew Ly

Icons with Notifications are used heavily in app development to provide navigation and context within the same screen. In this PCF article, I will provide a walkthrough on how you can implement a PCF control for both Canvas and Model that enable you to build a navigation bar with icons.

Big Year Ahead for UX in Power Platform and Dynamics 365

January 28, 2020 / Andrew Ly

Today the NDA is lifted on 2020 Release Wave 1 for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.

In this blog I will be covering the User Experience (UX) enhancements within this release focusing particularly on the new visualisations, user interface improvements, and extensibility of controls across Model-Driven, Canvas, Mixed Reality, and Portals.

How to use Mock-Up Data in PCF CLI (July Update 2019)

August 1, 2019 / Andrew Ly

The updated PCF CLI tooling has just been released (July 2019), and one major enhancement is supporting mock datasets (Your Data within PCF Test Harness).

How to Create Buttons with Icons within PCF (using Font-Awesome)

July 17, 2019 / Andrew Ly

I’ve noticed that people in the PowerApps community have been having trouble using image resources within their custom PCF controls, so I thought I would look at a simple but novel approach for customizing your buttons and icons.

If you aren’t familiar with font-awesome they let you search from a catalog of great looking icons that you embed within your web apps.

In the following example, I created three buttons which have their own font-awesome icons. This was achieved by doing two things

PCF – Keybinding Example

May 17, 2019 / Andrew Ly

Here’s an early look at a Keybinding #PowerAppsComponentFramework control. This component was written to enable actions to be assigned to keyboard shortcuts. It uses MouseTrap.js library to perform this.

PCF Batch File – Quick Create PCF Project

May 17, 2019 / Andrew Ly

Batch file that creates a skeleton PCF Control with a single line. I had trouble remembering all the commands so created a simple batch file that takes just one parameter (ControlName). It creates the project, installs dependencies and creates empty css and image preview files.