Microsoft Flow – Copy files from SharePoint to a local PC
Microsoft Flow – Copy files from SharePoint Online to a local PC I recently assisted a customer with an automated workflow through Microsoft Flow that copies files from a SharePoint Online site librar…
Unleash your SharePoint admin superpowers with new admin center capabilities
At Microsoft Ignite, we announced several exciting new features coming to the new SharePoint admin center. Today we're excited to share that we’ll start to roll out these features worldwide later this month to organizations that have “Targeted release for everyone” turned on. What's coming in ...
Actionable email with HTTP Post action to Microsoft Flow
This is a short post showing how to collect button clicks from an actionable email that contains an adaptive card. In http://www.msclouddeveloper.com/finishing-the-support-incident-scenario I show how to send back an adaptive card in an email. But I also say that I hadn't succeeded yet in using a
Announcing three usability enhancements on PowerApps to help you create and discover apps
We're excited to announce that we've made it easier to discover the entry points for creating canvas and model-driven apps. We’ve taken away the mode switcher and brought both model-driven and…
App Dev Manager Om Chauhan demonstrates an approach for monitoring Flows and PowerApps to enable alerts or taking custom actions. What is Microsoft Flow? Flow is an online workflow service that enables you to work smarter and more efficiently by automating workflows across the most common apps and services. It’s a recommended solution for workflows...
October 2018 release: customer momentum, new content and announcing 2019 Business Applications Summi…
At Microsoft Ignite 2018, James Phillips and I shared the main stage to showcase real stories from organizations leveraging Microsoft Business Applications to disrupt business as usual and innovate to…
In many scenarios, you would want to enable certain columns as multi-select. In this blog, let’s look at an example on how to achieve this using PowerApps. Example: Let’s build a simple application…
In this blog, we will go over 10 tips that I find useful when building apps with PowerApps. They help me keep my app easy to read, debug and maintain. Hope you find them useful as well.
A common scenario when building apps is to enable deep linking into specific screens within your application. In the example below, we have a catalogue of devices that you can browse, look at the…
How to return value(s) from Microsoft Flow to PowerApps
One of the new feature available in Flow & PowerApps is that Flow can easily return value(s) to PowerApps. This is very important because we can now easily use Flow as a business layer for PowerApps. …
Return data to PowerApps from a flow, build lists in a flow, and test a flow with previous run data
Build flows that can be called from an app built with PowerApps, and return data back to the app. This means you can use the visual drag-and-drop flow designer to build the logic you need for the app.…
Integrating a checklist into your SharePoint item with PowerApps
In SharePoint, you can create task lists in which tasks can be assigned to users. Each task is a new item in the task list, which means the users has to switch between items in that list to handle …
Data Validation within apps and business forms is critical to prevent errors, and to ensure data transactions occur without errors and uncomfortable bottlenecks during submission. In this blog I will be sharing my personal best practices for data validation in the PowerApps that I design. I hope these will help you to enhance your organization's PowerApps too.
You create regions when developing in PowerApps. Adopting a naming conventions for all regions is one good way to stay organized and help other people working on the app. As an example a region’s name…
By default, most controls and items in PowerApps are named in a very obscure way. This makes it difficult to find the control later in code and to make any modifications to visually. While it’s maybe …
Custom Admin Dashboard with the PowerApps Admin Connectors
In this blog, we build a custom admin dashboard experience with PowerApps and the admin custom connectors we announced recently. See full blog post here https://powerapps.microsoft.com/…
Announcing Power Query Online Integration for Microsoft Flow
We have recently shipped, in public preview, Power Query Online integration for Microsoft Flow. Using this capability allows flow makers to transform and shape their data coming from SQL Server using …
October PowerApps updates are rolling out. Say hello to many new features!
We're excited to share that many of the items in the October Release Notes are now beginning to roll into preview environments and in some cases are already available in production! We've focused across the board on quality, more powerful CDS capabilities, more productive makers, great end user experiences, and improved admin visibility.
Dropdown list with distinct values and option for "All"
I wanted to share this technique I've been using to create a dropdown from a datasource as well as include an option for "All" There are 3 steps, 1st collect the word "All" into your dropdown list named collection with ClearCollect ClearCollect(DropList, {Result:"All"}) Make sure to collect th...
This blog post highlights how one can create a PowerApps Canvas app to create an editable table to interact with the data in the database quickly without having to connect through a separate interface…
Announcing pre-built Office 365 screens in PowerApps
We're very excited to announce new screen templates, which allow you to build an app in a matter of minutes! These new screens make it easier than ever to add Microsoft Office capabilities to your…
New training app for building Microsoft Office components
Want to learn how to build PowerApps, but don't know where to start? This how-to guide will take you step-by-step through the process of building various Microsoft Office components in PowerApps.
Why I changed my mind about #PowerApps and became a fan… and why you should, too
This blog post title was initially titled ‘Why I disregarded PowerApps but now I radically changed my mind’. I changed my mind and I now think that PowerApps is a very powerful tool and…
Microsoft HR uses the Power Platform to transform employee experiences
Microsoft used PowerApps to create a a suite of employee engagement mobile apps that have been deployed worldwide to 100,000+ employees. These applications have a clean and modern UI and connect to a variety of backend services, including cloud-based APIs and legacy on-premise systems. This blog post takes a deeper look at this set of apps, that are branded as the Thrive suite. It describes the partnership between the HR and IT departments at Microsoft, the decision to use PowerApps, the app functionality, and the solution architecture.
Test your flows with real example data, and four new management connectors
Creating a flow may require some trial and error during the development process. Starting this week, you can use real, example, data from connectors to test your flow as you build it, right inside of the Flow portal. Now you can know that the flow will run as expected. Additionally, we are introducing four new management connectors: PowerApps for App Makers, Power platform for Admins, PowerApps for Admins, Microsoft Flow for Admins, and, one other new connector: Microsoft School Data Sync.
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