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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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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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In SharePoint, it’s easy to create a view that shows a list with a person field filtered to show [Me], so the items in the list are dynamically related to the current person looking at the list. In PowerApps though, it’s a little trickier because of the delegation error. Here’s the error that you may have come across in trying
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If you’d like to add a bunch of photo attachments to an item in SharePoint, and then have the ability to view them all as a gallery of images on the item, here’s how to do it. This is using a SharePoint list, and the attachments control in the form. This solution is just for images, not documents or other
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Earlier this year, a big project I worked on was the creation of a legislative tracking app for the State of Hawaii. I used PowerApps, of course. Here is an hour long demo, where I walked through this app, and talked about some of the major lessons I learned, and tips for putting apps into production. I chatted with Audrie
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A common requirement in forms and business processes, is for a notification to be automatically sent only if a specific field is changed in a form. Historically, this has been tricky to accomplish in workflows. In this post I’ll show you a way to do it in PowerApps. In this example, I have a project form, and I want to
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In this post, I’ll show you a way to create a form that has the appearance of tabs, using a SharePoint list form customized with PowerApps. Customize your form with PowerApps. (see my previous post on how to do this) The tabs at the top of your form are just going to be buttons, we’ll make them look like tabs.
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