Building consistent User Interfaces across multiple PowerApps screens with minimal fuss
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.
PowerApps Modern & Minimalistic Design Tip #1 – Box Shadows
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 …
<p>In this blog post, we will take low performing conference app and apply few of those optimization techniques to substantially improve performance.</p>
I know the title be a little misleading. PowerApps doesn’t support CSS as of now (maybe sometime in future), but you can create a CSS light for simple tings while we await the custom Themes f…
PowerApps: Create a navigation menu using the Gallery Control
Learn how to create powerapps navigation menu using gallery control in Microsoft PowerApps.Step by step tutorial on how to create powerapps navigation using gallery control.
Introduction In this article we will look at: Branding Creating Responsive Screens. Using Collections to standardize your UI. Other UI Design best practices, including using SharePoint list to configu…
Advanced PowerApps visualizations with dynamic SVG’s
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…
When using PowerApps, we get a fair amount of settings to change our text controls but sometimes, we need that little extra touch. One of those options is the font family. We get 14 font styles that are suitable for most design ideas. We might get more in the future but now, I’m going to show you how to include any desired font that might be required for any of your projects. First approach, the HTML control The first idea that you might have tried is to use the powerful HTML control that is included in PowerApps. This control lets you format it’s contents using plain HTML code, but it has ...
PowerApps – Relative positioning in PowerApps, the options.
Today I will have a look at relative positioning of elements in PowerApps. As you add elements like labels, icons,input boxes or anything else on the screen you will find that you often change your mi…
Quite a common task in PowerApps is to create a menu. You might already have figured out that a menu is easily created using a Gallery. Remember my recent post about galleries? Today I’m look…
Microsoft has released Components as an experimental feature in PowerApps and of course, this has made me very excited. This makes me really happy 😍 I was looking forward to this. @PowerApps Componen…
Tips to entertain your users while PowerApps gets their data, i.e. loading screens
Depending on where your data lives, it may take a few seconds for that data to display in the PowerApp. There is nothing that drives users more nuts than just staring at a screen as it does nothing, w…
Yes, CSS for PowerApps, kinda. Actual CSS based style sheets are not possible, but the next best thing is. We can create a few objects to store our styles in, like colors, font sizes, dimensions, etc.…
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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…
We discussed how to use PowerApps media control like image control, video control, camera control, barcode scanner, picture control, audio control, microphone control etc.
[2nd day of Xmas] – Exploring the PowerApps Dialog Box
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 […]
PowerApps Canvas App Coding Standards and Guidelines
Today we are happy to announce the release of the PowerApps canvas app coding standards and guidelines white paper! Why did we create the white paper? Creating a simple canvas PowerApp is easy. But as the complexity of your app increases, care must be taken to keep your apps maintainable and performant. Across the web … Continue reading “PowerApps Canvas App Coding Standards and Guidelines”
Line breaks in PowerApps multiline inputs and Flow approval comments
When using PowerApps multi-line text inputs, behavior on line breaks is not always consistent. You may have also noticed that your Microsoft Flow approval comments will not (always) return line breaks…
How to implement a cascading dropdown on a list with PowerApps
In this post, we will see how to implement a cascading dropdown list within the PowerApps application for a list with the two lookup columns where it has to display only the parent values if there are any associated child items. List data setup: SharePoint list “CarGroup” with the following data. Tata Motors Fiat Chrysler […]