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When we connect an app to a SQL Server table that has a column of type time, the values don't show in a user-friendly format by default in PowerApps. In this post we'll go over some expressions that can be used to improve the experience for the app users, by converting from the duration format to a more natural hh:mm:ss one.

Imagine a company where service technicians perform on-site repair of equipment. Inevitably, in doing this sort of work, the technician will need to refer to equipment drawings, service history, past photos, specifications and/or operating manuals. These days PowerApps is fast-becoming a great option for such a scenario because many field workers prefer to use their phone or a tablet. But PowerApps also has some limitations, and right now that is around the display of documents from SharePoint. For a start, it is impossible to display office documents natively in PowerApps at this time, an...

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Announcing the the Flow checker, which provides an improved validation and error correction experience. You can now get in-context help on where the errors and warnings are in your flows and will be g…

Case In a previous post you wrote that Microsoft Flow could help to delete records in my PowerApps. How do you add a Flow to PowerApps? ...

In my previous post, I shared a winning combination of Forms, SharePoint, Flow, and PowerApps. In this post, we’re going to dive in deeper into the PowerApp I created. I wanted to take this a…

Premise In this post I’ll demonstrate how to trigger a Microsoft Flow from Microsoft PowerApps. PowerApps are indeed very useful in submitting forms to the server. Combined with Microsoft Flo…

PowerApps gives you the opportunity to extend your SharePoint lists so that it can give just that much better experience for your users. However, there are still some things that need a little bit extra attention, such as lookup and people fields. In this blog, I will explain how you can use these field types […]

In this article describes how to implement responsive layouts with SharePoint View Formatters.

In late September, we announced the public preview release of the Power platform Admin Analytics. In that post we discussed a couple of upcoming reports including sharing and connectors. We have honored that commitment and I am happy to share that both the sharing and connectors reports are available in Microsoft Flow Admin Analytics.

This week you may have noticed that some parts of the Microsoft Flow experience have changed. As a part of the October release, we are overhauling several key aspects of the Microsoft Flow portal and designer experiences to make it easier to navigate and find actions.

In a recent announcement, Microsoft shared news about a new Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capability for PowerApps and Microsoft Flow. This new capability is built upon the Common Data Service solution system. In this blog post, we will share details about how Microsoft Flow makers can use Solutions to bundle related flows (and apps) within a single deployable unit.

[Part 1 of this series can be found here and part 2 here] The problem with self-service BI is that you never quite know what your users are up to. For example, what data sources are they using? Are…

Starting today you can transport canvas apps and Flows in a Common Data Service solution file! This was a major ask from the maker community and now you can package multiple canvas apps and flows into…

As you have learned from an earlier announcement today, you now can leverage the Solution system for canvas apps. This feature greatly enhances our current App Lifecycle story, allowing you to easily …

Today, the PowerApps team rolls out a brand-new sharing experience for canvas app. Check out the new look and feel! Not only is it a lot more responsive and meeting higher accessibility grade, it…

Modern SharePoint is ready, and we’re here to help you get there. It’s time. It’s time to improve the performance from your intranet. It’s time to put the power of all your content, people and informa…

Last May, at SharePoint Conference 2018, we previewed new user experiences built with view formatting (previously called “row formatting”). It’s based on the column formatting feature introduced last …

At Microsoft Ignite we broadly announced our vision, strategy, timeline, and investment areas for SharePoint Server 2019. Today we’re excited to announce general availability of both SharePoint Server…

One of the difficulties with PowerApps is to get started. You could of course start by using one of the Application Templates. Although these may look good none of these really do what I want to do…

I have a choice box that allows for a users to be chosen, the display is the users Display Name. I want to set a varialbe to the selected users display name and use it in a concatenate to generate another fileds value. But the when the variable is created as a table. Now how do I extract the use...

It’s a very busy week at Microsoft Ignite 2018. We’ve been working on all the enhancements we previewed at SharePoint Conference in May 2018, and we hope you’ve been able to enjoy the featured role for SharePoint, PowerApps and Flow in some of our keynote demos this morning, and available for repla...

Editing the look and feel of apps can seem like a time-consuming task. However, with some easy tips on linking controls redesigning apps can be incredibily easy. Linking controls empowers app developm…

Tony Phillips SharePoint Designer

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I was recently architecting a solution for a customer that required a combination of self-serve and IT governed Power BI reporting. They wanted a simple a process to create, edit, and manage their content – without the danger of unvalidated reports being published into the production app workspace. The customer’s existing process was very manual […]

Today, we’re excited to share the latest updates for OneNote across Windows 10, Mac and online. From cloud file attachments, tag search, to Emoji keyboard and customizable autocorrect, we will be rolling out these updates in the coming weeks, so read on to find out more. Keep your work in sync wi...

Premise In my previous post, I demonstrated how to fetch bulk items from a SharePoint List to PowerApps. In this post, I’ll demonstrate, how to pass argument/value, from one PowerApps screen …

I have an app in development that is a long list of values that includes a column that has intermittent values. Using a check box, I'd like to filter the gallery to show only those values that have an intermittent value also assigned. To be clear, the gallery would show the entire list when the ch...