I assumed making Power Apps that display a PDF stored in a SharePoint document library would be easy. Power Apps already has a built-in PDF viewer control. All I need to do is supply the file location and it will…
Power Apps created for use inside a company can be shared with external users outside of the organization as well. External users require the same licensing as internal users but there is a different method to set them up vs.…
Want to filter a Power Apps gallery by the current user? There are many ways to do it. The easiest way is to get the current user’s email and use a filter function to show only matching records in the…
When a Power Apps form is very long a tabbed form can make it more organized and easier to use. A tabbed form is simple to build – create one button for each tab at the top of the form, when…
Need to show or hide a button in Power Apps based on the current user? There are several ways to do it. The quickest way is to comparing the current user’s email to a hardcoded value to see if it matches. But the…
Author’s note: Two weeks ago I published a tutorial on how to setup Power Apps Co-Authoring with Github. Many readers of this blog use Azure Dev Ops for source control instead of Github and requested another version of the same…
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…