Improving model-driven apps with custom pages

Model-driven apps offer many capabilities focused on data-driven solutions. These solutions use the features available from Dataverse, but what if you need to go beyond what model-driven apps provide?

The Power Apps roadmap hints about a convergence model in which model-driven apps and canvas apps use the same designer to build solutions. This feature offers the ability to unite the excellent capabilities available in canvas apps within model-driven applications. More information on this subject is available here: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/custom-pages-for-converging-model-driven-apps-and-canvas-apps/

With this recipe, we will use canvas apps to make use of a device’s native capabilities – in this case, the Global Positioning System (GPS).

Getting ready

Building on this chapter’s solution, we will improve the data handling of the Ticket Operations table. Before we begin, go to the table...