Question

You are building a PCF code component that must call the Dataverse Web API to retrieve related records when it loads inside a model-driven app. During testing in the harness the component works, but after deployment the context.webAPI object is undefined at runtime. What must you do to make the Web API available to the component?

Accepted Answer

Add a feature-usage element declaring WebAPI in the ControlManifest.Input.xml and reference it under the <feature-usage> node

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Add the WebAPI privilege to the security role assigned to the component's containing solution

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Call Xrm.WebApi directly instead of context.webAPI because PCF components cannot access the Web API through context

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Import the @microsoft/powerplatform-webapi npm package and instantiate a client in the init method