In Power Apps, an effective way to filter a gallery is with a tab list control. Tabs make it easy to change between different views of the data. For instance, to show all of the gallery items with an “Open”…
Power Automate can be used to set an email category. A category is an feature that allows you to tag, label and group messages. Emails also become easier to spot because a badge is displayed with the category name. There…
Power Automate can be used to change an email subject line. There is no dedicated flow action to do this. However, we can call the Microsoft Graph API with the Outlook Send An HTTP Request action and use it to…
With Power Apps user defined functions we can write a formula once and reuse the logic many times throughout an app. To do this we choose a function name, determine the inputs and their data types and write a formula…
Sharing links can be used to give access to a file without granting access to the entire document library or site. With Power Automate, you can create a sharing link for anonymous users, people in your organization or specific internal…
It is useful to know how to patch all items in a gallery when you want to update several items in a SharePoint list at once. To perform batch updates you can use a little-known variation of the patch function.…
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A SharePoint document library is often the better choice for storing files in an app vs. Dataverse file storage. The cost of SharePoint file storage is much cheaper ($0.20/GB vs $40/GB), it has versioning built-in and you can take advantage…
A SharePoint document library can be embedded in a Power Apps custom page by using an iFrame. This technique allows us display to SharePoint document library as if we were on SharePoint.com. It also gives access to the full range…