The final post emphasizes designing productive forms that enhance user experience beyond mere speed. It advocates for clarity, logical organization, and minimizing clicks. Key strategies include using tabs effectively, leveraging quick views, customizing the command bar, and personalizing user options to streamline workflows, ultimately improving efficiency and adoption of applications.
Why Form Performance Isn’t Just a Developer Concern When users complain about an app being “slow,” they’re rarely pointing at infrastructure, they are reacting to the very first thing they experience: how long it takes for a form to load and respond. In model-driven Power Apps, forms are central to every interaction. Whether it’s a … Continue reading Power Platform Performance: Enhancing Form Performance in Power Apps
We have all seen it happen. A customer replies with their credit card number in an email. Or worse someone pastes their full Identity Number into a support form. And now it’s sitting in your system, completely visible to a frontline agent who probably shouldn’t see it. Until now, the best you could do was … Continue reading Mask It Like You Mean It: Protecting Sensitive Data with Power Platform’s New Masking Rules
In model-driven Power Apps and Dynamics 365, working with multiple forms for the same table is a common scenario, especially when tailoring the experience for different roles, business units, or custom apps. What if you could programmatically check: What form is being used? What sections or fields exist on it? Whether it’s visible? Whether a … Continue reading Navigating Forms with Code: Real-World Uses of getEntityMainFormDescriptor()
When building model-driven apps, one of the most powerful (and underutilized) ways to enhance the user experience is by adapting behavior based on the current user’s settings. That’s exactly what Xrm.Utility.getGlobalContext().userSettings allows you to do, access contextual details about the user, their preferences, and security privileges at runtime. In this post, we’ll explore: What’s available … Continue reading Making Your App Smarter with userSettings: Context-Aware UI in Dynamics 365
As Power Platform developers, we often write logic that needs to behave differently depending on which environment or organization our code is running in. Whether it's toggling features for internal teams vs partners, showing localized content, or adapting functionality based on supported currencies Xrm.Utility.getGlobalContext().organizationSettings gives you the data you need to make smarter UI decisions. … Continue reading Using organizationSettings in Model-Driven Apps: Context-Aware UX for the Win
The Power Platform gives us great flexibility with the UI, and one underrated but powerful capability is dynamically managing the header visibility of a form using the formContext.ui.headerSection API. Whether you want to hide the command bar for certain users, simplify the UI during create mode, or tailor the form experience based on data, this … Continue reading Mastering formContext.ui.headerSection: Controlling Header Visibility in Model-Driven Apps
Let’s face it, marketing data is powerful, but only if you can actually use it. If you’ve ever thought, “I know there’s valuable interaction data in my customer journeys... but where is it? And how do I analyze it at scale?”, then Microsoft Fabric might just be your new best friend. This is where Dynamics … Continue reading Customer Insights + Fabric: The Marketing Analytics Match You Didn’t Know You Needed
Marketing isn’t just about sending the right message. It’s about knowing what happens after you hit send. In Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Journeys, you get a full suite of analytics that helps you move beyond vanity metrics. We're talking data that answers real questions: Did my email drive action? Are my customer journeys actually … Continue reading Marketing Analytics in Customer Insights – Journeys: More Than Just Opens and Clicks
Let’s be honest, most of us working in Dynamics 365 or the Power Platform have, at some point, wondered: Why can I see contacts, accounts, and leads so easily in Dataverse, but not the logs, clicks, or telemetry? To answer that, we need to go back to something that quietly powers everything behind the scenes: … Continue reading Understanding the Common Data Model: Why Your CRM Knows Who’s Who, but Not Who Clicked What
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