Scenario I was working with a client to build an application to allow them to better manage sales from inventory. As part of their invoice process, they export data from the application to a CSV. However, the client wanted to display a preview of this data before exporting. First I Read more…
This is part II in a series of videos that build on top of each other related to tracking requests. Make sure to Check out Part 1 here to follow along! Tracking the history of what happens to a request or approval over time is a feature that is highly Read more…
When comparing the integration points between Power Automate and either OneDrive or SharePoint, you start to notice that the SharePoint actions are much more robust when working with folder structures. Power Automate doesn’t allow you to auto provision folders in OneDrive, and many of the file actions do not work Read more…
Sending emails via PowerApps triggers is a useful tool to send out notifications and reminders as you guide your users through a workflow. . It’s nice to be able to auto populate that email notification with data from wherever your data store is, and if its SharePoint you can also Read more…
For a long time when Power Automate came out, the integration points with Power BI were not great. Flows were prevented from doing almost anything useful with Power BI except for refreshing a dataset. Which is limited to 8 times a day. Microsoft took a step in the right direction Read more…
One of the main use-cases that has always been a great candidate for the power platform is approval workflows. Using the ‘Approvals’ connector in Power Automate is usually the first method to use for this which has a handy Outlook integration that provides the user an interactive email that handles Read more…
Oftentimes as developers build more and more PowerApps, they keep seeing the same use cases and using the same patterns to fit those use cases. In such cases, if a developer finds themselves rebuilding the same thing over and over again it would save them time to build a reusable Read more…
This is part 1 in a series of videos that build on top of each other related to tracking requests. Make sure to Check out Part 2 PowerApps Tutorial: Request Tracker – Comment History to follow along! One of the strengths of PowerApps is that it’s a blank slate to build Read more…
Before building a custom component with PowerApps Component Framework make sure that you have Node.js, Visual Studio Code (or another IDE), and the most recent version of the PowerApps CLI downloaded. If you are missing any of these items please refer to Part 1 of this blog series which walks Read more…
The PowerApps component framework (PCF) lets developers build re-usable code snippets called “Components” for model driven and canvas applications. The components can be used in multiple applications to enhance the user experience and drive a business use case. One of the examples I’ve run into is using the map functionality Read more…