Monthly Archives: July 2019

Power Apps Text Input Pattern Validation

Do you ever have a form with a text box for someone to type their phone number or email address, and would like to enforce that pattern?  In many forms, we don’t want the form to be able to be submitted if the data hasn’t been typed in the correct way, or pattern, like social security number, phone numbers, bank

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Power Apps as a Front End

There are two different ways that you can create PowerApps canvas apps.  There are customized SharePoint list forms, and there are standalone PowerApps.  I always prefer standalone, and I wrote a post that is a full comparison between the two types, PowerApps Standalone App Versus Customized List Form.  Whenever I’m talking about the fact that I prefer standalone over customized

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Power Apps & Power Automate Convert to PDF

Previously, I wrote a post called Microsoft Flow & Quick Parts, which shows how you can insert fields from SharePoint into your document via Flow and Quick Parts.  Many times in business processes, this document needs to be output as a PDF file, in order to be archived or sent out to a customer. Currently in Flow, the only free

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Flow Virtual Summit 7/10-7/11

Flow can be used to trigger automation from within a PowerApp. In this session, learn the ins and outs of Flow used with PowerApps. Trigger a Flow from a button, and even allow the Flow to respond back to the PowerApp. There are also many types of automation that can be done directly from PowerApps without the need for Flow. You will learn how to determine when and where a Flow is needed, and all of the steps to set the systems up to talk to each other.

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