Question

A retail company has five separate canvas apps, each maintained by a different team. All five apps need to display a standardized product-search bar with identical layout, styling, and behavior. Leadership wants a single definition of this search bar that, when updated, can be propagated to every app with minimal manual effort, while still allowing each app to pass in its own data source. Which approach best meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Build the search bar as a canvas component published in a component library, then import that library into each of the five apps.

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Develop the search bar as a PCF code component and add it to each canvas app's screen individually.

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Recreate the search bar controls manually on a screen in each app and copy-paste the formulas between them.

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Create a custom API in Dataverse that returns the search bar markup and call it from each app.