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Canvas apps now support changing the environment within the Common Data Service connector. The default behavior hasn’t changed and existing Common Data Service connections will continue to use the canvas app’s current environment. When adding a new data source, we now display the environment at the top of the list of entities. The default appears … Continue reading “Enable Common Data Service connector to select an environment”

Keyboard shortcuts for canvas apps

I get many questions about Microsoft Flow related to the many posts that I have written in recent years. Earlier this week I got a question related to my posts Do you process your invoices with Micros…

Planner Tasks Have you started to use Microsoft Planner across your teams in Microsoft Teams? In each team you create some tasks and now you would like to have an overview of all the tasks across the …

Recently, I was asked by a customer to create a process (in SharePoint) that empowers users to report disruptions. Some of the requirements (such as scanning bar-codes and reporting on an iPad) made me decide to create a PowerApp for reporting the disruptions. They also wanted the reporter and the handler to have the ability […]

<p>Today, we&#8217;re announcing the ability to add your Canvas apps and Flows to solutions (Preview) in the Common Data Service for Apps &#8211; even if they weren&#8217;t orig…

We had recently announced the public preview of our new view designer. Since then many of you have actively used it and given us great feedback to help make it even better. Today we are happy to announce that the new view designer is out of preview and available for general use. The latest update includes additional features, added based on your feedback, to help makers quickly and productively author views.

Watch a video to learn how to use to SharePoint Document Libraries in PowerApps, and download the sample PowerApp you see in the video!

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We are super excited to announce that we will be starting to roll out Dual Write (Preview) to all our customers! Huge thanks to customers and partners from our Insider program without whom we wouldn’t have reached so far! It has been a great journey with lots of learning along the way. We have just … Continue reading “Announcing Dual Write Preview”

This is bananas. I hadn't seen the source article, thanks for posting this sample. I was able to grab your component from Github and try it in minutes. Time to get good with SVG math I guess...

One way to make your Microsoft Forms Pro survey interactive and dynamic is to use branching rules. In this post we will look at how to do this.

I have recently started to experiment with Forms Pro, in this post I will explain my initial tests and provide a few observations on my opinions so far.

If you’ve used Microsoft Forms, you’ll know it’s pretty straightforward to use and provides you with a quick tool to create surveys and forms to send to people. Enter Microsoft Forms Pro, which is currently in PREVIEW mode, and it’s looking more interesting. Given the name, there will most likely be a cost associated in...

PowerApps brings you lots of built-in controls and ways to visualize your data with just a few clicks. Sometimes, however, you might want to build custom visualizations that are not quite achievable w…

<p>Importing components from a local file is no longer the only way to share! With this update, you can share components using cloud apps. This feature is currently rolling out and it will…

This is customized toggle component using only 2 button controls. This has 6 custom properties, 4 input and 2 output : Input TrueText : Text when

Common Data Service polymorphic lookups are now available from canvas apps. You can now: Access, set, and filter on the Owner field of any record. Access and set the Company Name field (a Customer data type) of the Contacts entity. Access and set the Regarding field of activity entities such as Faxes, Phone Calls, Email Messages, … Continue reading “Owner, Customer, and Regarding for canvas apps”

We are very pleased to announce our latest standards whitepaper – PowerApps canvas app accessibility guidelines! Why did we write this white paper? PowerApps embodies the idea of “democratization of development”—anyone in your organization can quickly and easily create a powerful app and share it broadly. But the app maker has an ethical, and sometimes legal, obligation to support “democratization of usage” … Continue reading “PowerApps Canvas App Accessibility Guidelines”

One of the things we care most about on the PowerApps team is delivering reliable and performant experiences. We know that it doesn’t matter how easy-to-use or powerful a product is if it isn’t speedy and bug free. In order to drive the performance our customers have grown to expect, we’ve invested in a new … Continue reading “The PowerApps portal is now faster to load”

Flows make it easy to automate workflows that request approvals and act on responses to them. Currently, flow runs time-out after 30 days, causing any pending steps (like approvals) to time-out as well. While this isn’t a problem for most approvals, there are cases where responding to an approval ca...

While creating apps using the Common Data Service, makers select an entity as the data source and bind it with data controls. This allows them to add fields in the selected data source to a gallery, data table, or form. This is good for fields that are already present in the data source. However, if … Continue reading “Add new fields while creating your canvas app”

Once again the team had incredibly busy month releasing over 13 new features or enhancements for making your application creation experience even more productive and fun. If you don’t want to wait for this blog post you can always can view a roll up of the upcoming features here: http://aka.ms/businessappsreleasenotes and more fine grained PowerApps … Continue reading “April 2019 updates for Microsoft PowerApps”

Have you ever wondered why the Expression box in Microsoft Flow is so small? It is because Flow is a low code product and low code means that we don’t need much code. Often a one liner can do…

Recently some new options have been added to create new flows. On top of the already existing Create from template option there are now options to create an Automated, Instant or Scheduled Flow. Wh…