Category: Development (Page 3 of 6)

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.

PCF Control – Pulsing Notifications

May 9, 2019 / Andrew Ly

This Powerapps Component Framework (PCF) control takes a string variable, and then if there is a value will start pulsing the message against a blue background. This is to ensure the user doesn’t miss this message.

PCF Control – Progress Bar

May 9, 2019 / Andrew Ly

The Progress Bar control takes a number value (whole number, floating point, decimal) and then renders an animated progress bar. A value between 0 and 100 must be provided.

PCF Control – Countdown Timer

May 2, 2019 / Andrew Ly

A simple Powerapps Component Framework (PCF) control that displays a countdown timer for a given date variable. It provides Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds digits, and also shows a text message once the date has past.

Source code is available on GitHub:

https://github.com/365lyf/PCFControls/tree/master/CountDownTimer

PCF Control – Number Button Selector

May 1, 2019 / Andrew Ly

Powerapps Component Framework (PCF) – Number Button Selector.

This PCF control takes a number field and provides simple controls to increment/decrement the field. Source code has been made available on GitHub:

https://github.com/365lyf/PCFControls/tree/master/NumberButtonSelector

Creating a perfectly aligned D365 Navbar Logo

April 18, 2019 / Andrew Ly

Looking to get that Dynamics Navbar Logo just right for your Dynamics 365 / PowerPlatform app? Today I’ll focus on how to get the dimensions of your logo just perfect, as well as providing a download link to my Photoshop PSD file so that you can alter for future projects.

Microsoft Portals – A Deep Dive by Lachlan Wright and Andrew Ly

January 8, 2019 / Andrew Ly

“Microsoft Portals – a Deep Dive” by Lachlan Wright & Andrew Ly slide deck is up for those who missed out on UG Focus 2018 conference.

An introductory course and best practices for Microsoft Portals. #msdyn365

If the above link doesn’t work download from: Microsoft Portals Deep Dive – Andrew Ly & Lachlan Wright from Andrew Ly

Getting started as a Dynamics 365 CE Developer

August 5, 2018 / Andrew Ly

This article is targeted at developers looking at making the transition as a Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (or CE for short). Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform (PowerApps, Common Data Service, PowerBI) is really getting a lot of attention at the moment. As organisations become more customer focused, platforms that provide capabilities in customer engagement are becoming more and more important.

The aim of this guide is to provide you with the necessary tools and resources to reduce the learning curve of this often complex platform, understand where to get help when needed, and allow you to focus your learning on areas which will be applicable to you on the job.

It is helpful if you have had exposure to the following before you continue reading:

.NET Development
JavaScript Development
Visual Studio IDE or similar IDE