Category Archives: Canvas App

Embedded Canvas app Security- Quick Tip

Problem Embedded Canvas app not loading Details Recently some of the user reported that they are not able to use Canvas app which is embedded on the sitemap. While using embedded canvas we need to consider following User have all the required permission on the used entities Depending on what your app is doing we need to provide all the… Read more »

Filtering Gallery using Radio Button

Requirement Implementing Gallery data filtering using radio button. Details let’s say we have requirement to filter gallery data based on the selection of the radio button like below To implement filter, I am using collection here and Dataverse Account entity as data source where I have records of different types (using Relationship Type attribute for customer category) so first let’s… Read more »

Fixing “This app isn’t opening correctly” error

Problem Getting Error while opening Canvas app embedded in model driven form. Solution Recently we faced following error while trying to open canvas app. Earlier this app was working fine and this error occurred after new changes deployed to this environment. Based on the error message, I started troubleshooting it and checked ID of the user and verified if this… Read more »

Creating Appointment for customers using Canvas App

Requirement Create appointments for customers using Canvas app and display existing appointments in gallery control. Details We are going to create a sample canvas app where we will have two screen in first screen we will be displaying existing appointments and we will use second screen to create new appointment so let see how we can do that. You need… Read more »

Update entity from Canvas App using Patch

Introduction In earlier article we discussed about how updating entity from canvas app using Power Automate. This process is works fine if you don’t want to update current entity because executing Flow will take some time and you won’t be able to see the changes quickly so in this post we are going to discuss other option to update entity… Read more »

Canvas app with Bing Maps in Dynamics 365 CE -2

Introduction This is second article about using Bing maps in Canvas app. In the first article we discussed about how we can show event organizer data in the gallery control and render them in the Bing maps. In this article we are going to show event as well as event organization details in Bing maps. Details In last app we… Read more »

Canvas app with Bing Maps in Dynamics 365 CE -1

Introduction Sometime back I wrote Show child accounts on Bing Maps using client side code, today in this this article I will be discussing how we can show Bing maps in Canvas app and embed it in Model driven app. In this sample app we are going to show Event organizers on the Bing maps and it will look like… Read more »

Getting Current User Details in Canvas Apps

Requirement While working on the Canvas app sometime we want to get user details like name, email or other details. We can use this details depending on the requirement. Today we are going to discuss how we can fetch user details using 3 ways. Details This article assume you basic knowledge of Canvas app, if you are new to Canvas… Read more »