PPTB Skills

This site documents reusable skills, patterns, and best practices for building plugins and tools within the Power Platform Toolbox (PPTB) ecosystem. It's written for developers building or maintaining a PPTB plugin — someone who already knows the Power Platform and needs concrete guidance on plugin architecture, Dataverse integration, PCF controls, rule-engine design, and Azure-hosted backends.

These pages capture patterns that work — applying them correctly to your specific plugin, and keeping them current as PPTB evolves, is still your responsibility.

What this library covers

Plugin architecture

Structuring a PPTB plugin: module boundaries, extension points, and how a plugin registers itself with the toolbox host.

Dataverse integration

Patterns for connecting a plugin to Dataverse — authentication, querying, and keeping plugin state in sync with environment data.

PCF controls

Building and packaging Power Apps Component Framework controls that a PPTB plugin can host or embed.

Rule-engine design

Designing configurable rule engines within a plugin, so behavior can be adjusted without code changes.

Azure-hosted backends

Patterns for plugins that need a backend service — hosting, authentication, and calling that service securely from the toolbox.

Related links

• PPTB-skills on GitHub — source repository for this site.
• Writing Style Guide — conventions used to write these pages.