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…
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…
There are situations in SharePoint where it’s better to not allow users to “Quick Edit” a list. For example, a use case where lists get updated via Power Automate and some fields are hidden from the input form it would be problematic to let users Quick Edit an item. In Read more…
A little while ago, a client came through with a list of 400 addresses that they wanted displayed in a map visual in Power BI based on specific criteria. Unfortunately, in order to display the addresses in the way that the client wanted the map visual required us to get Read more…
Canvas PowerApps Navigation As app makers create more complex PowerApps, the need to navigate a user across the various screens in the app becomes a necessity. A lot can be taken from the web design world in how we can provide this experience. Two common patterns that we can take Read more…
The pagination options in Power BI are a great way to break your Power BI reports down into manageable bites. Adding more pages can give a designer more real estate to work with and more ways to break down data. On the flip side, too many pages makes the Pages Read more…