Power Apps has a secret Word, Excel and PowerPoint document viewer hiding in plain sight. It’s actually the PDF viewer. No, the PDF viewer can’t do this by default. But with one-line of code you can use Power Apps PDF…
Multiple Power Apps developers can now work together on the same canvas app and see each other’s changes! This is an exciting new feature Power Apps developers have wanted for a long time. We can open the same app as…
Power Apps can be connected to a SharePoint document library to view folders, subfolders and files. You may already know how to work with SharePoint lists but document libraries present new challenges. How can you show a hierarchy of files,…
I started my Power Apps blog in June 2020 with no expectations. All I wanted was a place where I could write about the cool things I was learning and to document my best practices. I did not expect my…
Working with dates & times is one of the biggest challenges in Power Apps. Dealing with date formats, time-zones and date manipulation is even hard for experienced Power Apps developers. In this article I will list all of the Power…
In Power Apps there are two techniques for making a form: an Edit Form and a Patch form. I favor using Patch forms and I regularly get asked the questions “why should I use a patch form?” and “what are…
The Power Apps Canvas App Coding Standards whitepaper was introduced by Microsoft back in 2018 to document best practices for coding canvas apps. A collaborative effort by Microsoft and members of the Power Apps community, it is among my favorite…
Power Apps makes building data entry forms surprisingly simple – just insert a new form onto the screen, watch all of the fields in your data source magically appear in the form, then add a ‘submit’ button and you’re done.…
Update: March 27, 2022I’ve written a new version of this article that shows how to implement phone number input masks inside of a Power Apps form. Input masks are used to restrict the values input into a text field and…
When Power Apps interactive maps launched at the start of this year it was a huge improvement over Bing’s static maps. However, a key feature was missing – the ability to draw a route between two points on a map.…