<p>The team has been busy the last month shipping new features and fixes for you. You can view the weekly release information here https://aka.ms/PAWeeklyReleaseNotes . Che…
<p>You’ve been through this before: you create a useful group of controls like a header. Then you copy and paste it on each screen of your app where it’s needed. But if you w…
The comprehensive licensing guide to Microsoft Flow and PowerApps
In 2006 I applied to work at Microsoft, in their Dublin, Ireland office. I was offered a job and moved immediately to Ireland from Finland. On my first day I was handed a respectable pile of paper by
Microsoft® PowerApps & Flow are the Microsoft replacement to InfoPath & SharePoint Designer. Okay, that is a bit unfair to PowerApps & Flow, as both products address everything that users disliked abo…
<p>It’s now possible to distribute flow templates inside of your organization by sharing copies of flows. Once you have sent out a flow, your colleagues can create it from their email,…
PowerApps – Send your data to Microsoft Flow with less parameters
Within PowerApps you can send data to PowerApps using the Ask in PowerApps in dynamic content. This quite quickly means that you end up with a lot of parameters when you want to pass a lot of data to …
Recently the PowerApps team released a new feature in preview – Components. I was really looking forward to the availability of this feature. An excellent reason to share my experience trying…
Within PowerApps there is an experimental feature that could be quite useful. Note that you shouldn't use this in a production app unless you don't mind being disturbed while you are on holiday. Formu…
The new “Populate a Microsoft Word template” action in Flow that was released last week got me thinking: apart from the obvious mail-merge applications, this could be used to build reports in Word! He…
Within PowerApps there are many expressions, all these expressions are nicely listed in alphabetical order. This can be useful if you know what you are looking for but if you don’t know what …
Canviz is excited to be part of the growing PowerApps community and we're doing our part to help foster it's growth. Learn more about our contributions.
The new Word Online (Business) connector lets you work with Word files in document libraries supported by Microsoft Graph to generate files from templates and create PDF versions of files.
<p>For regular readers of this blog, you may recall a blog post by Carlos Figueira on working with SQL server time values. In it, Carlos used the Mid, Find, Substitute, and other functions…
On-premises data gateway management in the Power platform admin center
<p>We are excited to launch the public preview of the Data Gateway feature on the Power platform admin center; This feature provides tenant admins with visibility into all On-premises data gatew…
New CDS capabilities for Canvas apps enter Preview
<p>For the last few months we have been rolling out new features for Canvas apps when connected to the Common Data Service for Apps: One-to-Many relationships Option sets Many-to-Many relationsh…
<p>A lot of you would have come across a scenario where you want to bulk update records. Maybe you are taking some images and want to upload them all at once. Or you want to flip the flags withi…
Sum, Min, Max, and Average functions in Canvas apps are aggregate functions that can reduce a large amount of data down to a single value. For example, Average could be used to find the average age of a class of students using Average( Students, Age ). These functions can also be used with the Filter function … Continue reading “Delegation of Aggregate functions for CDS”
<p>This week we have improvements to the Microsoft Flow and PowerApps connectors for Microsoft Planner and Office 365 Outlook, as well as two new connectors: <a href="https://flow.micros…
There’s a new wizard based, easy user interface for column conditional formatting in SharePoint Online!! That means you don’t have to know JSON code in order to do some conditional formatting on your …
Data Integrator Updates – New features with an intuitive user interface providing a fluent experience
This is a Preview announcement of new features and UI enhancements in the Data Integrator for Common Data Service for Apps Important Preview features aren’t meant for production use and may have restricted functionality. These features are available before an official release so that customers can get early access and provide feedback. We expect changes … Continue reading “Data Integrator Updates – New features with an intuitive user interface providing a fluent experience”
Improved datasource and field selection in canvas apps
PowerApps authoring using data is getting easier with improved creation and selection of datasources, fields, and connections. The experience has been updated and search was added to help quickly find the right item. Also more of the data controls can be configured directly in the property pane. This experience is rolling out throughout this week. … Continue reading “Improved datasource and field selection in canvas apps”
A guide on how to create a modal dialog that can be used as a confirmation step, used for adding additional details or even display more details in a current screen. Background Two SharePoint lists…