PCF Control Schema

 Control TAG 

Attributes of control tags  

namespace: Provided in the “pac” command earlier. 

constructor: Provided in the “pac” command earlier. 

version: change the versioning if needed; else, we can keep it to default. 

display-name-key: This will be the display name with no spaces for custom control. 

description-key: This description will be shown in D365 for custom control. 

control-type: We will keep the default value 

Property TAG

Attributes of property tags 

name: Provide the name that will be used for custom control. 

display-name-key: Provide the display name with no spaces for custom control. 

description-key: This description will be shown in D365 for custom control. 

of-type: If we are using a single datatype, then there are some supported datatype that can be used for the of-type attribute. 

Valid values are: 

TwoOptions 

Whole.None 

Currency 

DateAndTime.DateAndTime 

DateAndTime.DateOnly 

SingleLine.Email 

SingleLine.Phone 

SingleLine.Text 

SingleLine.TextArea 

SingleLine.Ticker 

SingleLine.URL 

Decimal 

Enum 

FP 

Multiple 

Optionset 

of-type-group: if we are building control that will support multiple data-type, then we need to use the of-type-group attribute.  

Let us define a type-group: 

<type-group name=”line”> 

<type>SingleLine.Email</type> 

<type>SingleLine.Phone</type> 

<type>SingleLine.Text</type> 

<type>SingleLine.URL</type> 

</type-group> 

DataSet TAG

 Attributes of data-set tags 

name: Provide the name of the data setused to get the value in a custom control. 

display-name-key: Provide the display name with no spaces that will be set while importing in App. 

description-key: This description will be shown in D365 for custom control. 

Resources TAG 

Subtags of Resources tags 

code: Provide the relative path for typescript file which contains code for custom control 

css – Provide the CSS files that need to be added. 

resx – Provide the file path that contains static string contents that are needed for the control. 

img – Provide the images that are needed in the project.