PowerApps is a suite of apps, services, connectors and data platform that provides a rapid application development environment to build custom apps for your business needs.
Clean up your Power Fx by Dropping Explicit Boolean comparisons Something I frequently notice when reviewing other developers’ canvas applications is explicit Boolean comparisons. While there’s nothing technically wrong this this, it is redundant. If you’re in any kind of consulting or contract work, it’s likely that you won’t be Read more…
PowerApps Solution: Multi-Day Event Calendar Scenario I am working with a client who manages a small group of apartments. The client reserves these apartments on behalf of their guests and needed a way to be able to quickly understand who was staying in each room over the course of the Read more…
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…
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…
PowerApps is an incredibly robust tool that allows developers to build a custom front end interface on top of any data source. One of the most powerful aspects of the tooling is a function called “User” that can give the developer options to personalize the UI based on a logged 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…