Ever encountered problems with loading data in your Canvas app OnStart property when embedding it in a Model-Driven-App? While it usually works great, I found one situation where you have to put in some additional steps to ensure everything is loaded correctly. Time for a Quick Tip 💡 ❓ Using ModelDrivenFormIntegration.Item as filter In my app I want to embed a Canvas app on the main form of my entity Budget....
Canvas Apps provide an awesome way of presenting tailored UIs to customers in order to enable them to solve their problems in the best possible way. However, a lot of users still love their Outlook client and seem to spend most of their time writing mails in it. Power Apps already provides a built-in Outlook Add-in to get Model-Driven Apps running in Outlook, but there is no such way for Canvas Apps....
In the first and second part of our series we learned what we want to achieve and created our first Outlook Add-in which displays our own custom canvas app. Yay! 🎉 Now we are going to make the whole experience dynamic. Until now the displayed canvas is static in a way, that it is not aware on which mail it is displayed. For that reason, we are going to transfer parameters from the Outlook to the canvas app....
Embed Canvas apps in Outlook In the first part of our series we looked into what we want to achieve and what the requirements are. So make sure to check out the requirements and set yourself up for this part. Because now we want to actually create a very simple Outlook add-in 🚀 While Outlook Add-ins uses technology that the average Power Platform maker does not necessarily posses, following this introduction is doable even if your not a developer!...
Embed Canvas apps in Outlook Canvas Apps provide an awesome way of presenting tailored UIs to customers in order to enable them to solve their problems in the best possible way. However, a lot of users still love their Outlook client and seem to spend most of their time writing mails in it. Power Apps already provides a built-in Outlook Add-in to get Model-Driven Apps running in Outlook, but there is no such way for Canvas Apps....
Here we are 🥳 I’ve been meaning to start this blog for quite some time, but only now got to it. Might be the developer in me, very stereotypical I focused first on building a blogging site instead of using something pre-made 🙄 But with that being done -> let the content creating start! 🚀 My main goal for this blog is to be a repository for all the things I try and build....