Many people spend time focusing on automating their build and deployment assuming that this will improve the quality of the output. While it definitely reduces the time needed to build or deploy solutions and certainly reduces human errors which can cause defects. Automating the build and release is only part of the story. We must… READ MORE
In Part 1 I unveiled my method of applying the Ask in PowerApps property efficiently. As an example I used a simple form with Text input fields. In this Part I will go one step further, using Collections. I use collections whenever I need to gather groups of items with similar characteristics. For example cars, groceries, Orders, kitchenware..etc..etc.. I… READ MORE
Hands on workshop walking attendees through integrating PowerApps and Power BI to create a scoreboard application. A video of these steps can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/mspowerplatform Step 1. Create an app workspace to host the application. To do this: Log in to PowerBI.com and click on Workspaces > New Workspace. For people doing this at… READ MORE
Hey guys! In today’s post we are going to see how we can use current user information with the Office 365 connector on Power Apps to make our application more integrated. Let’s go! Go to http://make.powerapps.com and create an app (or open an existing one), I will use the Tablet version just to have something… READ MORE
Social media tagging is everywhere – Microsoft Teams, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn – you name it! Having used tagging on all of these social networks (and more), I was wondering if we could have something similar in Power Apps. The idea was pretty simple – allow users to select other users when they type the @… READ MORE
Engage with external customers and partners Give internal and external users secure access to your data either anonymously or through commercial authentication providers like LinkedIn, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google, or enterprise providers such as Azure AD B2C and Okta. Set authentication requirements, customize data for each user, and allow users to submit their information privately with… READ MORE
Posting for my demos at the 2019 Virtual summit The first demo i went through was here: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Community-Blog/Integrating-PowerApps-Power-BI-and-Flow… The second walk through below: PowerApps is the perfect compliment to Power BI in that it makes it very easy to update or add data to the underlying datasets that Power BI is Visualizing. This walk through… READ MORE
More than often we make use of the Ask in PowerApps property. You know, this one: When you use the PowerApps trigger you can hardly get past this property. Somewhere down the line it is almost certain that you will need to retrieve data from PowerApps via this property. Very often I encounter a configuration where the… READ MORE
Currently the only way to update records from a Power Apps Portals is to create or update data via an Entity Form, Web Form or a companion app. The companion app incurs a certain level of technical debt in terms of development of the app and management of where its hosted, such as an Azure… READ MORE
This is the second post in the SVG in Power Apps series. In this post I will introduce animating SVGs by altering the colour and size of the SVG graphic using variables and a timer control. Series This series is to introduce ideas for using SVG within PowerApps to add graphics to your Apps. Introduction… READ MORE
