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Microsoft holds a free PowerApps community call every Wednesday at 10 Central. Tomorrow, 9/18/2019, April Dunnam and I will be the featured speakers. Recently, I wrote a blog post called POWERAPPS AS A FRONT END. April did a video about a way to do security trimming in PowerApps, and since the concepts are related, we’re doing one big community call where
InfoPath is a really, really old technology. Why are a lot of companies still using it? I’ve teamed up with Rob Bogue and Mark Rackley, for this informal “Stop using InfoPath” campaign. Microsoft killed InfoPath, wow, it’s been about 7 years ago now? A lot of companies are still crunching along with thousands of InfoPath forms, just waiting… for… what
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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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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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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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In PowerApps, once you get beyond the basics of customizing SharePoint list forms, or just using the out-of-box form control in your apps, the next common thing that people like to do, is add some logic to their forms.
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It is a common request, to have a form that is so long, that it needs to span across several screens, like a “wizard”. Fill out a few fields, click Next, fill out a few more, click Next, etc. In this post, I’ll show you a way to accomplish that in PowerApps. Here is an example: This concept is a
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