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If you’re using a SharePoint choice field you can set the ‘Allow fill-in choices‘ (or ‘Can add values manually‘ in modern) option to yes. This will give users the opportunity to manually specify a value for the choice field if the given values are not sufficient. E.g. when a user want to request a brush, […]

The PowerApps component framework for model-driven applications along with PowerApps CLI have been released to general availability.

Introducing the OnReset property of components. With OnReset, you can specify behavior formulas that run when an event resets a component. Read details and examples.

In this article I will show you how to create a re-usable calculator control component in PowerApps. We will use buttons and text label controls to

In this post, we will look at how to install and use the Microsoft Flow Add-In for Excel. First, open Excel and go to Office Add-Ins, then select Microsoft Flow for Excel (Preview). Click Add: You will see: The Add-in is now ready to use. Let’s create a new spreadsheet, Customers, with a column for the Customers, and we will make this selection a table by highlighting then selecting Table … Continue reading Installing Microsoft Flow Addin for Excel and Selected Row Email Demo

A practical example on what PowerApps dataflows, Excel and Power BI can offer you in combination with one another and what other benefits it brings to you.

Walking through how to refresh datasets and create near real time reports in Power BI with the PowerApps Custom Visual. Starting from Power BI we need a report that is based on Direct Query. To sa…

Related demo can be found here: The second walk through below: PowerApps is the perfect complement to Power BI in that it makes it very easy to update or add data to the underlying datasets th…

Do you want to add drop shadows to elements in your PowerApps without using images? PowerApps does not provide an OOB property to set shadows for elements or controls but you can use the HTML text …

Use PowerApps checker to see a list of potential issues in your Canvas apps.

4 turn key Solutions for Event management (Thrive Conference), Company News & Actionable Cards (Thrive Home), Employee Praise (Kudos) and Organizational Information Solution (People)

In this article I will highlight 10 interesting flow hacks/ workarounds that might help you in building your flows. This article is inspired by a

In this post, we will discuss another approach for merging multiple documents into a single PDF using Microsoft Flow. In previous blog posts, we had a look at the Iterative approach and REST API approach to merge documents to PDF. Both approaches have their own advantages and disadvantages: For the...

<p>We’ve released lots of new features and enhancements to our Data Integration capabilities in PowerApps recently, enabling users to seamlessly connect to, transform and combine data from a wid…

<p>Throughout the month of October, we’ll start rolling out an improved header to the various areas within PowerApps: the maker portal, canvas apps, and model-driven apps.</p>

App checker now includes optimization tips to help you improve the run-time performance of your apps.

PowerApps component framework for canvas applications.

I was exploring MS Flow and working on a article series for SharePoint based action in flow and I accidentally found something interesting. On below

In part 2 of this mini series about organising your flows into functions I will look at calling multiple functions. If you missed part 1 then please have a look at Function Libraries in Microsoft F…

The Microsoft Flow Conference 2019 Content is Available on-demand! Check it out and connect with all of the presenters!

Educational PowerApps videos and webinars new for the month of September

Want to migrate your custom connectors between environments? Now you’re able to move multiple custom connectors along with Canvas apps, Flows, and CDS customizations in a single package.

<p>If you are part of a larger team and you were wondering how you can enable collaborative development, this blog post is for you.</p>

When I start developing a new flow there are a few things that I put in place first. For me Microsoft Flow development all starts with making the process robust. Therefore I start with the try-catch p…

When you think as a code developer and you start with Microsoft Flow there will be a few patterns that you miss. In a first attempt to make every developer welcome, I developed the Try, Catch , Fin…

See how you can use SharePoint Column Formatting to open a stand-alone PowerApps Canvas app connected to SharePoint data directly from the list.

The first of an industry best practices series is by PowerApps MVPs like Ike Ellis where he highlights how you can create a solution that enables a mobile sales force to update their own Power BI reports.

When asked what content our blog readers and video viewers would like to see more of the most oft requested topic is “Industry Best Practices”. With that in mind we will be starting a s…

In this post covers building an AI Builder object detect model by creating a list of items, upload images, tag each image and then train the model.

The PowerApps developers have definitely made up for lost time being at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit shipping over 19 features this month! While all the PowerApps developers went above and beyond the Unified Interface team really delivered the goods with 8 suites of enhancements (with each suite containing multiple features!). If you aren’t familiar … Continue reading “August 2019 updates for Microsoft PowerApps”