The ask, rethink error email recipients of a Power Platform solution. The original maker needs to transfer ongoing support to the help desk and presently, if there's an issue, the cloud flows are designed to email the maker directly. Fortunately, the solution's data source is a series of SharePoint Online (SPO) lists, so there's at … Continue reading Power Platform: SPO Data Sources + Error Emails
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Power Apps: Canvas App | Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)
This is likely to be a lengthy post because there was no ask today. I just wanted to stress test nested Power Fx With() functions a bit. My question, "Are there any performance concerns nesting With() functions?" To test this and maybe get an answer, I created a Power Apps canvas app to determine the … Continue reading Power Apps: Canvas App | Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)
Power Apps: Canvas App | Merging Data Sources w/ AddColumn()
Scenario: There is a canvas app with a text box, two radio choices, a vertical gallery, and two data sources. Toggling the radio button changes which data source is filtered and used to populate the gallery. Problem: The data sources don't have any data columns in common and Power Apps doesn't like that. Solution: Create … Continue reading Power Apps: Canvas App | Merging Data Sources w/ AddColumn()
Power Apps: Canvas Apps | Data Refresh – Manual v Timed
Canvas apps are Microsoft's low-code business apps of the Power Platform, capable of interacting with data from a variety of data sources. Keeping that in mind, app makers should design their apps with data refreshes in mind because after the initial app start, users are working with copies of the loaded data, not live data. … Continue reading Power Apps: Canvas Apps | Data Refresh – Manual v Timed
Power Apps: Security + Access Layers
Power Apps aren't natively built for iOS or Android. Rather, these business apps are created and deployed a bit differently. And being deployed differently, organizations have more decisions to make with regards to app security. Power Apps security can be managed and granted at three layers: environment, app, and data. Power Platform Environment An environment … Continue reading Power Apps: Security + Access Layers
Power Apps: Build a Game… !JeOpArDy
The Power Apps platform is great for building business solutions. Even so, does it have to be all for work? Luckily, it doesn't. Just as business apps are created, developers could build simple games, too. For instance, designing a "Jeopardy"-esque game... Getting started, this example uses Microsoft Excel as it's data source. The Excel file … Continue reading Power Apps: Build a Game… !JeOpArDy
Power Apps: Recreating… Twitter
At last, closing out the Power App recreation series. Kicking things off, the first app mocked up Instagram. Nothing fancy, but the app used two galleries populated from two Excel data sources. The second app roughly recreated Netflix and again, used two galleries and two Excel data sources. However, app #2 used the Filter() function … Continue reading Power Apps: Recreating… Twitter
Power Apps: Recreating… OneDrive Photos
As the series continues, there is a common element among the apps. At their core, many popular apps have gallery experiences. Even the OneDrive app could be created using a vertical gallery for its photo grid... Setting the app foundation, count the total number of images in the data source. The app displays three images … Continue reading Power Apps: Recreating… OneDrive Photos
Power Apps: Recreating… Office App
User-centered design should really be at the core of all app development. Functionality is essential, but a poorly designed interface can sink any app. With this in mind, more time should be invested in designing Power Apps... Next in the series, recreating the Office App with SharePoint Online as a data source: Figure 1 - … Continue reading Power Apps: Recreating… Office App
Power Apps: Recreating… Netflix
Second entry of this series, a rough mock-up for another Power App. The first recreation was an Intagram-esque app created using two galleries. Likely an oversimplification, but Netflix is also two galleries at its core; although the galleries are used differently. For this Power App, the horizontal gallery is nested within the vertical gallery: Figure … Continue reading Power Apps: Recreating… Netflix
Power Apps: Recreating… Instagram
Software Engineering is more than writing efficient and reusable code. An underutilized discipline of the field is user-centered design. This area of Software Engineering focuses more on building beautiful and intuitive interfaces. Unfortunately, I don't often see Power Apps with clear investments into their UIs. Though, with a bit of effort, Power Apps could easily … Continue reading Power Apps: Recreating… Instagram
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