Improving entity forms using embedded PowerApps

I have been looking into scenarios with PowerApps and Flow that can benefit Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement user experience. One of the scenarios that can add value right away is on the entity forms. PowerApps can be embedded as an IFrame on the normal entity forms, and can be used similar to Dialogs to offload some processing to PowerApps and Flow.

Here is the finished product.

This works without any JavaScript at all in UCI, with the normal IFrame control on the form. Make sure to tick the option that passes the record id and objecttype code and untick cross site scripting restriction.

No scripts are needed on the form to embed the PowerApp.

Once PowerApps is in place, the current form context can be inferred using the “id” parameter that is passed on to the form.

I use a known Guid during the design phase to assist me with…