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Makers can now create and edit Autonumber fields in the entity field designer UI. Previously this functionality was only exposed through the API, but we have now brought it to the UI for easier use. Autonumber fields are used to automatically generate unique alphanumeric identifiers for records. Makers can customize the format of these identifiers … Continue reading “Autonumber fields are now supported by the modern entity designer”

Begin to understand how to use PowerApps with this introduction and tour of the PowerApps interface from Dries Verdonckt

Approvals in Flows empower you to automate requesting and tracking approvals. With custom response options, you can now create approvals with responses tailored specifically to your business needs. Use custom responses to provide granular feedback for content reviews (E.g.: Approve, Approve with edits, Reject), respond to an approval to offer discount with discount limits (Up … Continue reading “Introducing Custom Response Options for Approvals”

Long-awaited PowerApps Components [PAC] appeared on the end of January 2019 to everyone’s delight. From then on PowerApps developers can create their own controls that can be reused on a screen or across multiple screens and at the same time being central-manageable and migrate-able due to import/export option. PowerApps components can has it’s own custom … Continue reading "PowerApps components patterns"

The team has been busy the last month shipping new features and fixes for you. You can view the weekly release information here https://aka.ms/PAWeeklyReleaseNotes . Check the release table, by region, to find out when these features and fixes will be available. Compose and reuse rich components and controls in canvas apps Makers can build and … Continue reading “February 2019 updates for Microsoft PowerApps”

Was looking at the PowerApps Docs on how to control the Power BI Filter context from inside of PowerApps and noticed a couple of issues…Like the references to our internal MSIT servers and an…

Dependent drop downs, also known as “cascading drop downs” is the scenario where making one selection on a drop down filters the options available for selection on a following drop down. This is a common scenario across business forms in order to optimize the form filling out experience for the user. For example, filtering cities that … Continue reading “Configure easy dependent drop downs in PowerApps”

Microsoft has released its guidance and best practices: PowerApps and Microsoft Flow Governance and Deployment Whitepaper. It’s a great document, I highly recommend it for anyone considering …

This blog post will present a set of custom controls built using the new PowerApps component feature for Canvas apps. As a prerequisite, check out Yifie Wang’s blog post introducing the PowerApps components feature and Brian Dang’s “start your journey with components” blog post that includes instructions on importing/exporting components and more. Before we delve … Continue reading “10 Reusable Components: tab control, calendar, dialog box, map control and more”

Makers can now quickly and easily edit the filters for their model-driven views. The view designer displays filters in the Filter by … section in the property pane. Clicking on the individual filters in the property pane shows a dialog that allows makers to quickly update the operator and the value.

In my first month of joining Microsoft, Emma Cooper, a Program Manager on the PowerApps team, knocked on my door with a shine of delight in her eyes. “You can copy and paste controls from one tab to another. Do you want to try it out?” Emma knew my answer without me needing to say … Continue reading “Components: Start your Journey with Reusable Controls”

Office 365 now gives you the ability to create a dedicated room booking app from one of its PowerApp templates. Its very easy to setup and makes it easier for e

Picking up right where we left off in Part 1, lets get in and edit this Flow to add new connections! We will start with adding an action Yammer Post Message and add a Flow post to All company group. In the message text, we will add Title and Description from the SharePoint dynamic content. Next we...

“PowerApps help us help our business” – Manuela Pichler, Business Systems Development Manager, IT Lite team In this post we’ll take a deep dive look into the successful adoption of the Power Platform at Virgin Atlantic. We’ll start with a Safety and Compliance App, followed by their centralized administration approach to view and manage apps … Continue reading “Virgin Atlantic drives agile wins for its mobile workforce with the Power Platform”

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…

Microsoft Flow is the workflow tool in Office 365 to automate your tasks and business processes, whether your systems are on-premises, in Microsoft’s cloud, or even if they are not part of Microsoft’s…

Since I started focusing primarily on Microsoft BI/DW/analytics around 2005, I've always been happy being a generalist within that space. Fast forward to around 2017 when I started focusing predominan…

<p>Today, we rolled out a new feature. You can share an app with a set of users in the company by simply copy and paste their names or emails instead of typing the full name for each indivi…

<p>There&#8217;s a fancy new item in the tree view and its name is &#8220;App&#8221;. This App item is not a control, but is permanently there and contains properties of your a…

Introduction The Flow in this article will show you how you can use Page Approval Flow in SharePoint Online to create an approval process to post news items on your intranet and extend them to all the…

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.…

I recently read this blog post from Luis Freese about Microsoft To-do - 11 reasons why I fell in love with Microsoft To-Do and I couldn't agree more. In-fact, I can add 10 more to that list! One of the reasons mentioned was around moving flagged e-mails to To-Do using Microsoft Flow . To take this ...

<p>Canvas app authors have new tools for working with Common Data Service for Apps relationships: Relate and Unrelate functions. Many-to-Many relationships Since December, you have been able to …

<p>Use a new advanced condition builder to have conditional logic based on And / Or statements in a flow. Peek into the JSON code of actions in the Microsoft Flow designer. There is a new featur…

We all know that Microsoft Flow is part of the PowerPlatform. The PowerPlatform is a No-Code platofmr that helps Office 365 power users to create apps and processes using Microsoft Flow and PowerAp…

App makers like us often need to test apps in an incremental fashion to help progress the app design by validating formulas, expressions, data manipulation, control settings etc. Knowing the shortc…

The diverse collection of data connectors in PowerApps is impressive. There are over 250 different connectors available, not only from the Microsoft ecosystem but across the entire internet. You ca…

We've been helping lots of folk recently to build Flow's which extract SharePoint list item attachments and perform some form of processing, typically to convert to a single PDF document and share with a third party, or add to a records repository. The following tutorial is built around a very si...