Creator Kit – Library Control Errors

Posted on 03/11/2023by Angelo

At the time of writing this article, when you add Library Component of Creator Kit, you may find some errors. If you don’t know what Creator Kit is, you can read my article here.

Add control to your App

Add one of Library control to your app. If you didn’t have installed Creator Kit in your environment, you can read this article to do it.

Let’s see how to use this control.

Errors

As you can see, now you have 10 errors on your app. All errors are relative to our Panel Control:

Our control should look like this:

How to fix it

To fix, you should follow these step:

Create a local copy of your control
Fix errors
Use copied control

Let’s start to create local copy. Click on Edit and then Create Copy:

Now you have local copy and you can fix errors:

In this case (But the errors will change depending on the control you have), I fixed:

Button:

If(ThisItem.ButtonType = Primary, ColorValue(Panel_2.Theme.palette.themePrimary))

If(ThisItem.ButtonType = 'Microsoft.CoreControls.Button.ButtonType'.Standard, ColorValue(Panel_2.Theme.palette.themeDark))

Font:

'Segoe UI'

Font.'Segoe UI'

Semibold

FontWeight.Semibold

Transparent

Color.Transparent

Now your control should work. You should see like this:

We can use our version of control:

Considerations

I hope these information can help you…Here you can find official documentations on GitHub for this control.

Contact me for questions! Have a nice day!

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Creator Kit – Nav Control

Posted on 01/14/2023by Angelo

Today , we’re introducing one of the menu & nav controls group of Creator Kit: “Nav Control“. Let’s see What is it and how it works. If you don’t know what Creator Kit is, you can read my article here.

Add control to your App

Before use it, you should add it to your app. If you didn’t have installed Creator Kit in your environment, you can read this article to do it.

Let’s see how to use this control.

Nav Control

You can use this control to create a navigation menu in your app. Let’s understand how can we use it. When you add it on your app, you should see something this:

We should set some properties:

Items

Create Table with these attributes:

ItemDisplayName – The Display Name of the menu item
ItemKey – The key of item (must be unique)
ItemEnabled – (Default true) Set to false to disabled
ItemVisible – (Default true) Set to false to hide
ItemIconName – The Fluent UI icon to use (here you can find icons)
ItemIconColor – The color to render the icon as (e.g. named, rgb or hex value)
ItemIconOnly – (Default false) set true to hide text label
ItemParentKey – Render the option as child item of another option
ItemExpanded – Set to false or true if the group should remain collapsed or expanded respectively.

Accourding to documentation, try to put this on Items properties:

Table(
  {
      ItemKey: "1",
      ItemDisplayName: "Home",
      ItemIconName: "Home",
      ItemIconColor: "Green"
  },
  {
      ItemKey: "2",
      ItemDisplayName: "Customer",
      ItemIconName: "People",
      ItemIconColor: "Red"
  },
  {
      ItemKey: "3",
      ItemDisplayName: "Documents",
         ItemIconName: "People",
      ItemIconColor: "Grey"
  },
  {
      ItemKey: "4",
      ItemDisplayName: "Others",
         ItemIconName: "DocumentSet",
      ItemIconColor: "Grey"
  },
  {
      ItemKey: "5",
      ItemDisplayName: "Quick Reference Guide",
      ItemParentKey: "4",
      ItemIconName: "Info",
      ItemIconColor: "Grey"
  }
)

You should see this result:

OnSelect

You can use OnSelect to get selected item and do some actions like change page. As usual, Just to understand , I show selected item display name in a label:

NavMenu.Selected.ItemDisplayName

Results:

Others useful properties are:

Theme : Property to set Json theme on controls, as you can see also in others controls of creator Kit. I usually set it when my application starts, and set it on all controls of Creator Kit who support it. You can create your theme here.
CollapseByDefault: You can set to True or False. Nav remain collapsed or expanded respectively. Individual Item level expand property is respected.

Considerations

I hope these information can help you…Here you can find official documentations on GitHub for this control.

Contact me for questions! Have a nice day!

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Creator Kit – November Update

Posted on 12/17/2022by Angelo

Let’s see what news are introduced with november update of creator kit. If you don’t know what Creator Kit is, you can read my article here.

New Features

Have been introduced 2 new (in preview) components, SubwayNav and SpinButton:

SubwayNav Control

SpinButton Control

Let’s see a basic introduction to use these controls.

SubwayNav

You can use this control to show a wizard steps in our application. Let’s understand how can we use it. When you add it on your app, you should see something this:

We should set some properties:

Items

Set a Table , with these attributes:

ItemKey: Key of item
ItemLabel: A Display Name of item
ItemState: Icon of the step, it could be one of: “Current”, “Completed”, “Unsaved”, “ViewedNotCompleted”, “Error” , “WizardComplete”

Accourding to source code, try to put this on Items propertie:

Table(
    {
        ItemKey: "1",
        ItemLabel: "Step 1",
        ItemState: "Current"
    },
    {
        ItemKey: "2",
        ItemLabel: "Step 2",
        ItemState: "Completed"
    },
    {
        ItemKey: "3",
        ItemLabel: "Step 3",
        ItemState: "Unsaved"
    },
    {
        ItemKey: "4",
        ItemLabel: "Step 4",
        ItemState: "ViewedNotCompleted"
    },
    {
        ItemKey: "5",
        ItemLabel: "Step 5",
        ItemState: "Error"
    },
    {
        ItemKey: "6",
        ItemLabel: "Step 6",
        ItemState: "WizardComplete"
    }
)

You should see this result:

If you don’t want specify ItemState , you can set empty string (ItemState: “”) , and you’ll see an empty white dot.

OnSelect

You can use OnSelect to get selected item and change page to show next step of your wizard. Just to understand , in this case I saved selected step on variable (Is just an example, you can use Controlname.Selected insted):

UpdateContext({SeletectStep: Self.Selected})

And on label:

SeletectStep.ItemLabel

Results:

Other useful properties are:

Theme : Property to set Json theme on controls, as you can see also in others controls of creator Kit. I usually set it when my application starts, and set it on all controls of Creator Kit who support it.
Subway Nav State: Property to set state on entire controls. You can choose from: “None”, “Errors”, “WizardComplete”

Example of set Subway Nave state property to “WizardComplete”

SpinButton

A spin button is control to allow to add number in small steps. When you add control you should see this:

Principal properties:

Label: Usefull to show a label of control.
Suffix: To add suffix after value.
Theme: As usual, Json theme.
Min: Minimal value to set.
Max: Maximun value to set.
Step: Value to add or Subtracts.

Le’t see an example, I set these properties:

New Features for Existing Components

About esixting control, have been added:

Tooltip for Icon component.
DelayOutput for SearchBox component.

Considerations

I hope these information can help you…Here you can find official release page on GitHub for this update.

Contact me for questions! Have a nice day!

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Creator Kit – Introduction

Posted on 12/07/2022by Angelo

Today, we’re going to speak about Creator Kit. With this fantastic tool, we have possibility to create Canvas App, with professional look & feel with “Microsoft 365” Style.

What is “Cretor Kit” ?

According to Microsoft , Creator Kit consist in a series of controls , utility and templates , created to increase developer productivity.

All controls are base on Fluent UI Framework , here official documentations.
Is included Template Starter apps , to help you to explore components.

Set Up (Manually)

Follow these Steps:

Download CreatorKit Core Solution from here.
Go to your Environment Settings and Enable “Enable the Power Apps component framework feature”

Enable Power App component Framework Feature — Enable the Power Apps component framework feature

Import Solutions: Go to your Environment and Import Solution (CreatorKit Core Solution)
Optionally, but I suggest you to do it, download CreatorKitCanvas solution and Import It in your environment. You’ll get Template