CREATING A CUSTOM COMPONENT USING THE POWERAPPS COMPONENT FRAMEWORK (PCF)

 The PowerApps Component Framework (PCF) is a Microsoft framework for building custom components in PowerApps. Let’s go through what this actually means and how to build these components.

In PowerApps and Dynamics 365, fields have types, such as Single Line of Text, Whole Number, Currency etc. For example, if we open our Account entity, we can see there are many fields, and these fields have different types:

We can open a field and see the field type, e.g. Account Number is a Single Line of Text field:

If we open an Account form, and add the Account Number field, on going to the properties we can see the Control used is set to Text Box: