Depending on where your data lives, it may take a few seconds for that data to display in the PowerApp. There is nothing that drives users more nuts than just staring at a screen as it does nothing, w…

Yes, CSS for PowerApps, kinda. Actual CSS based style sheets are not possible, but the next best thing is. We can create a few objects to store our styles in, like colors, font sizes, dimensions, etc.…

I recently read this blog post from Luis Freese about Microsoft To-do - 11 reasons why I fell in love with Microsoft To-Do and I couldn't agree more. In-fact, I can add 10 more to that list! One of the reasons mentioned was around moving flagged e-mails to To-Do using Microsoft Flow . To take this ...

<p>Canvas app authors have new tools for working with Common Data Service for Apps relationships: Relate and Unrelate functions. Many-to-Many relationships Since December, you have been able to …

<p>Use a new advanced condition builder to have conditional logic based on And / Or statements in a flow. Peek into the JSON code of actions in the Microsoft Flow designer. There is a new featur…

We all know that Microsoft Flow is part of the PowerPlatform. The PowerPlatform is a No-Code platofmr that helps Office 365 power users to create apps and processes using Microsoft Flow and PowerAp…

App makers like us often need to test apps in an incremental fashion to help progress the app design by validating formulas, expressions, data manipulation, control settings etc. Knowing the shortc…

The diverse collection of data connectors in PowerApps is impressive. There are over 250 different connectors available, not only from the Microsoft ecosystem but across the entire internet. You ca…

We've been helping lots of folk recently to build Flow's which extract SharePoint list item attachments and perform some form of processing, typically to convert to a single PDF document and share with a third party, or add to a records repository. The following tutorial is built around a very si...

As the number of users, apps and flows in a tenant grows, it can be hard to manage what connections are being used by which apps and flows. Use the PowerShell scripts below, which are built with the PowerApps and Flow Administration module, to discover which PowerApps and Flows use specific features like custom connectors/APIs, … Continue reading “PowerShell scripts to discover PowerApps and Flows with specific features”

Learn how to upgrade your previous version Common Data Service (CDS) database along with any canvas apps and flows that depend on it to the new CDS for Apps database. Or, delete your previous version CDS database and create a new empty CDS for Apps database.

Some big news! Or at least much bigger news. Canvas app SaveData and LoadData functions are now only limited by the amount of available app memory and local storage on a device. The previous limit of a few megabytes no longer applies. This is a huge improvement that will increase the stability of any app that … Continue reading “SaveData and LoadData Unleashed”

<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&#8217;s needed. But if you w…

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…

When a new response is submitted, start an approval process. If approved, record the response as a new item in a SharePoint list.

<p>It&#8217;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,…

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…

<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…

<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…