Happy New Year 2020!
Coming after a short break, I am going to start off with a problem that took a good chunk of my time towards the end of last year, right before I was leaving for my vacation!
Embedded canvas apps, as we all know, are a very useful resource to bring the power of canvas apps to model-driven apps. However, creating and testing them can be tricky at times. One of those challenges was mentioned in my very first post (challenge #4) which can be found here.
In this example, I have a custom entity (called CustomEntity from here on) that has a field (called 'Owner Party') of data type lookup and related entity Contact. In a gallery of CustomEntity, I would like to display the related Contact's email and phone number. One would expect the following expressions to work to display the related Contact's email and phone number:
ThisItem.'Owner Party'.Emailand
ThisItem.'Owner Party'.'Address 1: Phone'They actually do work (or at least seem to work) when looking at the embedded canvas app within the app designer/editor:
Now, testing this app from within the model-driven form produces a completely diff result - the related contact's email and phone number are blank!
To summarize, NEVER trust the results when testing your embedded canvas apps from within the app designer. Always go back to your model-driven app and see if the results are in line with the expectations. I will present the resolution for this problem in my next post, stay tuned!
Have fun! Get addicted!