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I was recently architecting a solution for a customer that required a combination of self-serve and IT governed Power BI reporting. They wanted a simple a process to create, edit, and manage their content – without the danger of unvalidated reports being published into the production app workspace. The customer’s existing process was very manual […]

Today, we’re excited to share the latest updates for OneNote across Windows 10, Mac and online. From cloud file attachments, tag search, to Emoji keyboard and customizable autocorrect, we will be rolling out these updates in the coming weeks, so read on to find out more. Keep your work in sync wi...

Premise In my previous post, I demonstrated how to fetch bulk items from a SharePoint List to PowerApps. In this post, I’ll demonstrate, how to pass argument/value, from one PowerApps screen …

I have an app in development that is a long list of values that includes a column that has intermittent values. Using a check box, I'd like to filter the gallery to show only those values that have an intermittent value also assigned. To be clear, the gallery would show the entire list when the ch...

Microsoft Flow – Copy files from SharePoint Online to a local PC I recently assisted a customer with an automated workflow through Microsoft Flow that copies files from a SharePoint Online site librar…

At Microsoft Ignite, we announced several exciting new features coming to the new SharePoint admin center. Today we're excited to share that we’ll start to roll out these features worldwide later this month to organizations that have “Targeted release for everyone” turned on. What's coming in ...

This is a short post showing how to collect button clicks from an actionable email that contains an adaptive card. In http://www.msclouddeveloper.com/finishing-the-support-incident-scenario I show how to send back an adaptive card in an email. But I also say that I hadn't succeeded yet in using a

We're excited to announce that we've made it easier to discover the entry points for creating canvas and model-driven apps. We’ve taken away the mode switcher and brought both model-driven and…

App Dev Manager Om Chauhan demonstrates an approach for monitoring Flows and PowerApps to enable alerts or taking custom actions. What is Microsoft Flow? Flow is an online workflow service that enables you to work smarter and more efficiently by automating workflows across the most common apps and services. It’s a recommended solution for workflows...

At Microsoft Ignite 2018, James Phillips and I shared the main stage to showcase real stories from organizations leveraging Microsoft Business Applications to disrupt business as usual and innovate to…

In many scenarios, you would want to enable certain columns as multi-select. In this blog, let’s look at an example on how to achieve this using PowerApps. Example: Let’s build a simple application…

In this blog, we will go over 10 tips that I find useful when building apps with PowerApps. They help me keep my app easy to read, debug and maintain. Hope you find them useful as well.

A common scenario when building apps is to enable deep linking into specific screens within your application. In the example below, we have a catalogue of devices that you can browse, look at the…

One of the new feature available in Flow & PowerApps is that Flow can easily return value(s) to PowerApps. This is very important because we can now easily use Flow as a business layer for PowerApps. …

Understand how custom forms work with SharePoint

Build flows that can be called from an app built with PowerApps, and return data back to the app. This means you can use the visual drag-and-drop flow designer to build the logic you need for the app.…

In SharePoint, you can create task lists in which tasks can be assigned to users. Each task is a new item in the task list, which means the users has to switch between items in that list to handle …

Data Validation within apps and business forms is critical to prevent errors, and to ensure data transactions occur without errors and uncomfortable bottlenecks during submission. In this blog I will be sharing my personal best practices for data validation in the PowerApps that I design. I hope these will help you to enhance your organization's PowerApps too.

You create regions when developing in PowerApps. Adopting a naming conventions for all regions is one good way to stay organized and help other people working on the app. As an example a region’s name…

By default, most controls and items in PowerApps are named in a very obscure way. This makes it difficult to find the control later in code and to make any modifications to visually. While it’s maybe …

In this blog, we build a custom admin dashboard experience with PowerApps and the admin custom connectors we announced recently. See full blog post here https://powerapps.microsoft.com/…

List of sessions related to PowerApps and Microsoft Flow at the Microsoft Ignite 2018 event at Orlando

Common mistakes designers make and how to fix them

We have recently shipped, in public preview, Power Query Online integration for Microsoft Flow. Using this capability allows flow makers to transform and shape their data coming from SQL Server using …

We're excited to share that many of the items in the October Release Notes are now beginning to roll into preview environments and in some cases are already available in production! We've focused across the board on quality, more powerful CDS capabilities, more productive makers, great end user experiences, and improved admin visibility.

I wanted to share this technique I've been using to create a dropdown from a datasource as well as include an option for "All" There are 3 steps, 1st collect the word "All" into your dropdown list named collection with ClearCollect ClearCollect(DropList, {Result:"All"}) Make sure to collect th...

This blog post highlights how one can create a PowerApps Canvas app to create an editable table to interact with the data in the database quickly without having to connect through a separate interface…

We're very excited to announce new screen templates, which allow you to build an app in a matter of minutes! These new screens make it easier than ever to add Microsoft Office capabilities to your…

Want to learn how to build PowerApps, but don't know where to start? This how-to guide will take you step-by-step through the process of building various Microsoft Office components in PowerApps.