Containers are a useful way to create layouts in Power Apps. I include them in all my of my apps now but at first I totally ignored them. Why? When Power Apps containers were released much of the hype around…
When moving Power Apps between environments they remain connected to the same SharePoint lists. This is a problem because we don’t want to manually delete connections inside a live app and make new ones. It’s alot of work and anytime…
If you Patch records to a datasource and don’t check it for errors, you are doing it wrong! Why? Patching a record doesn’t guarantee it was successfully added/updated. There might have been a data validation issue, a dropped internet connection,…
I’m pretty sure every Power Apps maker has experienced publishing an app update but the end-user doesn’t receive it. There a few reasons why this might happen including the device has the old version stored in cache or the user…
The ability to print in Power Apps canvas apps appeared in my tenant this week. Printing has been one of the most requested features for a long time. Though no official announcement was made I have been able to figure…
Text is the most common data type in Power Apps. Often, it needs to be manipulated in some way: extract part of the text, format it differently or remove unnecessary spaces or symbols. Power Apps text functions can do all…
“Don’t repeat yourself” is a coding principle smart developers use to avoid doing the same work twice. Canvas app components are a great example of this. You can make a component and re-use it on several screens as well as…
Multiple selection checkboxes give a user the ability to pick from one or more options. This feature does not come included in Power Apps. Fortunately we can make our own by combining a single checkbox with a gallery. In this…
This week Power Apps components received an important update: they now support behavior properties such as OnSelect & OnChange. Ever since components were released it was seen as missing feature. Power Apps developers had to resort to work-arounds to trigger…
“Don’t repeat yourself” is a software development principle all great app makers follow. In a practical sense, it means any repetitive code should only be written once as a custom function. Then the function can be called on again-and-again to…