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PowerApps is a fantastic tool allowing Power Users to create applications with minimal code, quickly. However, as with many types of IDE, it’s very easy for it to become unmanageable and overwhelming as the number of screens, controls and complexity grows. In this post, we’re going to examine several approaches that you can use to …

Designing a good UI is very important for any app. In this blog, I will explain how we can do pixel perfect designing in less amount of time using PowerApps.

File data types in Power Apps

File and Image data type to store file data in Common Data Services.

When you always thought you loved being a coder, but in reality you just love being a maker.

Power Automate UI Flows December 2019 update is now available with new supports for International Keyboard Layout Support and UI Localizations, as well as addressed some playback issues.

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Introduction: The blog walks you through how you can export items from a gallery into a CSV using Power Automate with a OneDrive for Business connection. Requirements: A Power App with a data connection to provide data for a gallery A Power Automate flow which data connection to OneDrive for Busi...

In this blog we show you how to send a collection from PowerApps to Microsoft Flow.

<p>This blog post is a second part in a series on how to “Return an array from Flow to PowerApps.” It will cover a much more efficient solution: the “Request – Response” method. Inside flow, using the action of the same name, you will be able to return arrays of any shape and size to PowerApps. To make the most use of this capability, we will be applying the solution to executing a SQL query.</p>

For the world of Power Apps users, the Common Data Services (CDS) might be more understandable, however, in the world of Power BI users, we still have many who don't know what it is and what is the use cases of it. So I thought better to write about it in this article, and explain…

In this post I will introduce animating SVG by altering the colour and size of the SVG graphic using variables and a timer control.

Power Platform admin center gateway management enhancements

A few months ago we announced a Public Preview of Power Platform analytical dataflows. Now, we’re extremely excited to announce that Power Platform analytical dataflows are generally available!

Can we filter SQL table based on the values from another table(like a join in SQL)? We have two tables Table1_UserPermission["PersonID","ProjectID","IsActive"], Table2_ProjectDetails["ProjectID","ProjectName","ProjectCost"]. When the user logs in, we are trying to check the Table1_UserPermission...

I want to show a gallery from table A but filter the results based upon a value of Column4 in a related table B. eg. TableA Column1(PK), Column2, Column3(FK) TableB Column1(PK), Column2, Column3, Column4 In SQL, I would write "select * from TableA inner join TableB on TableA.Column3=TableB...

In Microsoft Power Apps, there is an Org Browser Canvas App which connects to your Office 365 data and enables the app user to search for Office 365 users in an organization. This can be convenient if you want to enable users to contact other users, especially mobile ones. Let’s take a look at it. To install it, go to https://make.powerapps.com and select Apps, then Org Browser: Give the App … Continue reading Checking out the Org Browser Canvas App in Power Apps

This session introduces the Power Platform Adoption Framework and gives an overview of its start-to-finish approach to help you and your organization get the most value out of any form of Power Platform available to you today. We also share how other enterprise organizations have scaled with large a

[ NB - V2 BEING RELEASED SHORTLY - NB ] I will update this post and the attachments rather than creating a whole new App Sample article. V2 will only

I think it is time I walk through how I created a Forms Library for clients to be able to complete needed forms during an 'onboarding' process.

To support the scalability of more numerous and powerful components, we are happy to introduce the insert pane. The insert pane is the new way to add components to your app. You can also drag your components into the canvas from the insert pane.

Let's look at creating a Microsoft Flow to generate the Form Requests for an Account and have them displayed in your Dynamics Portal.

At Ignite we announced the new UI flows feature, but there were a few other updates in the month of October that we would like to share. Use the new child flow feature to have one flow easy trigger another one. The Flow mobile app can trigger flows when you enter or exit a location. We also have twenty-eight new connectors now available, along with many new actions in the most-used connectors!

Last week at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, we announced many new features, and even a new name: Microsoft Power Apps. Each session had its recording posted shortly afterwards for those who missed it or for those tuning in at home. The entire catalog of videos is now available for viewing on demand. Here is a reference list of the sessions most relevant to Microsoft Power Apps. Included are also a few select sessions related to Microsoft Power Automate and many that are general to Microsoft Power Platform overall.

This week we announced the new UI flows feature – which makes it possible for the first time to use Power Automate to automate applications that don’t have any APIs or connectors. Learn about what types of applications UI flows support, and how to integrate with your existing flows, and more!

Prove you understand the core capabilities of the Power Platform–from business value and core product capabilities to building a basic Power Apps canvas app, connecting data sources, automating with Microsoft Flow, and creating a Power BI dashboard.

As announced in at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, FL, Microsoft Flow will now be known as Power Automate. The rebranding moves the product in line with the Microsoft Power Platform, which consists of PowerApps, Power BI and now (formerly Flow) Power Automate. Microsoft has been describing the Power Platform as a way to “analyze, act, and automate” data and processes, so it’s not a huge surprise that … Continue reading Microsoft Flow becomes Power Automate and other Cool Features from Microsoft Ignite 2019

During the keynote at Ignite 2019, Satya Nadella announced that Microsoft Flow is gaining Robotic Process Automation (RPA) capabilities. From now on, Flow will have the following types of Flows: Automated Flows Business Process Flows (BPF) Instant Flows UI Flows (NEW!) Power Automate Next to that, he announced that Microsoft