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PowerApps authoring using data is getting easier with improved creation and selection of datasources, fields, and connections. The experience has been updated and search was added to help quickly find the right item. Also more of the data controls can be configured directly in the property pane. This experience is rolling out throughout this week. … Continue reading “Improved datasource and field selection in canvas apps”

Useful tips and tricks for Power Apps.

A guide on how to create a modal dialog that can be used as a confirmation step, used for adding additional details or even display more details in a current screen. Background Two SharePoint lists…

<p> Microsoft PowerApps activity events are made discoverable within the Office 365 Security &amp; Compliance Center. </p>

Last Tuesday I discovered an interesting option in the app settings of a PowerApp in my preview environment. I was able to enable PowerApps components in my app! This makes me really happy 😍 I was lo…

Introduction This post is in three parts. The first part is to create the dataset in Power BI, the second part is to add actions to the flow and the final part is to create a simple report in Power BI…

Every day I learn something new about PowerApps. Yesterday it was Components; today I am learning everything there is about the PowerApps Notification connector in Flow. PowerApps Notification connector What is the PowerApps Notification connector? As the name says, it offers you a way to send push notifications to users

<p>In our effort to comply with GDPR, we have released PowerShell script functions (cmdlets) that make it easier for admins to manage data and resources on their instance of PowerApps, Flow, and…

A PowerApps Naming Convention Proposal What’s in a name? Well, if you take the amount of effort that some brands go to in order to make themselves immediately recognisable, it would appear that names …

Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform are both deeply coupled with the Common Data Service (CDS) and are held in containers called environments. There are different types of PowerApps environments and e…

Use Microsoft Flow in conjuction with Quick Parts in a Word document.

Learn how to upload a file to SharePoint online document library from PowerApps form using Microsoft flow.powerapps upload file to sharepoint document library.

The pages in the Flow portal, including the flow list, now support filtering to find items in the grid. You can now create a page approval flow for SharePoint libraries to add a Flow-driven review process for all new and updated pages. This week there is also two new connectors: Acumatica and Plumsail HelpDesk.

Intro Buttons, Excel, Approvals and notification in one MS Flow. Tracking a starting and end point into Excel, by triggering a button. This is a flow that I will talk about today! The solution will have two Flow's that could be triggered by a button. The values will be added to an excel file that is...

When you build flows in Microsoft Flow or apps in PowerApps most likely you will be using data of some sort. Where should you be storing the data? In this post i'm considering SharePoint lists and I'm…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! What a year it’s been – full of successes, changes and everything in between. There have been so many amazing communityinfluencers and incredible posts in the Microsoft Power Platf…

As part of the Flow design process, I often end up building in some debug actions like Send email, Set variable etc. to capture/troubleshoot values that in turn help along with the actual design. B…

In my previous post I mentioned the Common Data Services. In this post I will look at the CDS in more detail. When starting with the CDS it is easy to create new entities and each entity can be used t…

We discussed how to use PowerApps media control like image control, video control, camera control, barcode scanner, picture control, audio control, microphone control etc.

<p>Introducing the 2019 Power Platform World Tour featuring PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and Power BI content from Microsoft team members, MVPs, Champions, and Subject Matter Experts. Power Platfor…

Happy New Year 2019 to our P3 readers! For the new year, I have a question for you: What do you think of when you hear the word “Flow”? For me, I immediately think of “Flo” from Progressive – someone …

This post is going to show an alternative for conditional formatting using lookup. I often get asked how to do conditional formatting or asked to help change existing conditional formatting that is not based on multiple conditions in an IF or SWITCH statement or nested IFs if you haven’t noticed PowerApp IF allows multiple tests. […]

<p>The team has been busy the last month of 2018 shipping new features and fixes for you. You can view the weekly release information here https://aka.ms/PAWeeklyReleaseNotes . …

Formativ_ is an app I showcased during an Open House livestream I held a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbl4MujHB9U During the livestream, I showed some of the patterns I had in the a…

This Microsoft PowerApps tutorial explains how to create a custom login screen using PowerApps designer. Powerapps create login screen example.

This is it - It's day 24 of my #24DaysPowerPlatform! When I had the first idea of this blog series, it was just a vision - and now - at the end of this series I hardly cannot believe that I kept up an…

We start my Christmas series with my favourite new thing I found in the past few weeks, Enhanced Groups. This post does a quick overview of a great new feature in PowerApps, Enhanced Groups. This feature is currently set to “Experimental”, so might well vanish at any moment. For now, it can help hugely in […]

For the second day of my Christmas series, we are going to build a simple dialog box. When designing an interface you occasionally want to explain the consequences of proceeding to the user and ask for confirmation using a dialog box. For example, this will delete all records relating to this user, do you want […]