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The Secret Way To View Word, Excel & PowerPoint Files In Power Apps
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The Secret Way To View Word, Excel & PowerPoint Files In Power Apps

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…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - January 16, 2022
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Allow Multiple Power Apps Developers To Simultaneously Edit Canvas Apps
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Allow Multiple Power Apps Developers To Simultaneously Edit Canvas Apps

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…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - January 9, 2022
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Power Apps Navigating Folders & Subfolders In A SharePoint Document Library
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Power Apps Navigating Folders & Subfolders In A SharePoint Document Library

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,…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - January 2, 2022
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Top 10 Power Apps Articles Of 2021
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Top 10 Power Apps Articles Of 2021

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…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - December 19, 2021
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All Power Apps Date & Time Functions (With Examples)
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All Power Apps Date & Time Functions (With Examples)

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…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - December 12, 2021
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Everything You Need To Know About Power Apps Patch Forms
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Everything You Need To Know About Power Apps Patch Forms

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…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - December 5, 2021
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Power Apps Canvas App Coding Standards: Naming Conventions
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Power Apps Canvas App Coding Standards: Naming Conventions

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…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - November 30, 2021
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10 Things You Should Know About Power Apps Forms
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10 Things You Should Know About Power Apps Forms

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.…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - November 28, 2021
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Power Apps Phone Number Formatting For Any Country (Input Mask)
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Power Apps Phone Number Formatting For Any Country (Input Mask)

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…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - November 15, 2021
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Show A Route On A Power Apps Map
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Show A Route On A Power Apps Map

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.…

  • Posted by - Matthew Devaney
  • on - November 7, 2021
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