When first starting out with your Custom Pages and wanting to display data, it’s tempting to pick the Label option. It’s right there in the Popular section when you go to insert, and it likely does what you need. But what about other options like creating a hyperlink, or changing the colour of things, making … Continue reading Tips & Tricks Using The HTML Text Control In Your Custom Pages

I think creating a Custom page is pretty easy. Once you have the basics you can create the bare bones pretty quickly including some functionality with a Patch statement to update your records. It’s the fine tuning and making sure the custom page works all the time and doesn’t allow users to submit multiple times, … Continue reading Make Fields Required In Your Custom Pages To Prevent Missing Data

Hopefully by now you’ve added a Custom page to one of your Model-driven Apps (MDA). Once you’ve done this, it is so satisfying, and a great way to extend functionality for your users. When you add the button it’s important to make sure it opens and that can be what you focus on the most, … Continue reading Show Or Hide Custom Pages Using Power Fx Formulas In Your Model-driven Apps

This is one of those things that is so simple and basic BUT if overlooked it can create a lot of mess, frustration and confusion. Depending on what your custom page is designed to do, you likely have a submit button on it. If your button is then using a Patch statement to update existing … Continue reading Prevent Users Making Multiple Submissions From Custom Pages

If you have started creating a custom page, the end goal adding a custom page to a form ribbon in a Model-driven App (Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, CRM, Dataverse or whatever you want to call it). That is where your users will find it and interact with it. How do you do that? Well there … Continue reading Adding A Custom Page To A Form Ribbon In A Model-driven App

Let’s start off slow with this one and build a basic dialog custom page for updating an individual record in Dataverse (Dynamics 365). For those of us who remember when D365 was still CRM (always close to my heart!), you’ll recall the old dialog boxes, those handy pop-ups users could interact with. Custom pages let … Continue reading Create A Basic Dialog Custom Page To Update One Record

If you’ve worked with Power Apps for at least the past few years, you’ve probably heard the term Custom Page and wondered how it fits alongside Canvas Apps. Custom pages and Canvas apps both use the same drag-and-drop designer, Power Fx, and data connectors. So what’s the real difference? In short, Custom Pages bring the … Continue reading Custom Pages and Canvas Apps: What’s the Difference, Really?