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For the second day of my Christmas series, we are going to build a simple dialog box. When designing an interface you occasionally want to explain the consequences of proceeding to the user and ask for confirmation using a dialog box. For example, this will delete all records relating to this user, do you want […]

Hey Flow Fans! My name is Jay Goodison, one of the co-founders of Encodian and this post covers our recently released 'Encodian' connector which provides a new set of robust actions for creating, watermarking, securing, OCR'ing and merging PDF documents as well as image clean-up operations, bringing...

<p>Performance is a top priority for the PowerApps team. There are major efforts currently underway to improve performance around app load time, the designer experience in Studio, connectors res…

<p>Today, we’re thrilled to unveil the newest addition to the Office Template series: Shoutouts. Like the Out of Office app, it is a brand new template, available to customize, use as is, custom…

<p>With its breadth of scope and depth of data, Microsoft Graph is quickly becoming the go-to API for app makers looking to increase productivity and build for business scenarios. The PowerApps …

Microsoft just released the second in a series of 10 Microsoft PowerApp Templates that demonstrate how to make PowerApps that integrate with Office 365 Products

Today we are happy to announce the release of the PowerApps canvas app coding standards and guidelines white paper! Why did we create the white paper? Creating a simple canvas PowerApp is easy. But as the complexity of your app increases, care must be taken to keep your apps maintainable and performant. Across the web … Continue reading “PowerApps Canvas App Coding Standards and Guidelines”

<p>Yesterday we announced the new model-driven designer coming to preview, and today, I&#8217;d like to announce that we&#8217;re also releasing the new view designer in preview. The exp…

The history of reporting tools in the Microsoft reporting universe is a long story and many tools have taken part in that journey (SQL Server Reporting Services, Performance Point Services, Excel,…). …

This knowledgebase article provides step by step instructions on how to create custom reusable controls in PowerApps. Find out how...

<p>Take your model-driven form authoring experience to the next level with the new model-driven form designer. It provides a modern, clean and productive interface for makers when authoring mode…

There are two types of PowerApps canvas apps, and it may not be obvious that these are two different things, but it is IMPORTANT that you understand this BEFORE creating a PowerApp.

A review of PowerApps, PowerApps Web Studio, and the correlated role of the power user.

<p>We continue to expand our Canvas support for the Common Data Service for Apps, on the road to CDS + Canvas = Awesome. With this installment we have refined how Option Sets and Two…

This month we have a number of great updates for Microsoft Flow. First, we now clear notifications in the notification center once you have viewed any failures. Flow has documented its Web APIs; for example, you can now programmatically create, share, or delete flows. Flow makers now have more control over the inputs that buttons take, and a new support experience will make it easy to find solutions to issues in the Microsoft Flow portal, without having to open a support ticket. Finally, there are eight new connectors this month including <a href="https://flow.microsoft.com/connectors/sh...

In our ongoing efforts for modernizing the way we update Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement, we are changing the way you have access to new features and functionality. Some of the changes require ex…

Overview of creating a model-driven business app using PowerApps with Dynamics 365 and building up your business data and processes in the Common Data Service to model forms, views, and other componen…

Today, we’re excited to announce our next big step forward: we’re bringing PowerApps together with the platform that powers Dynamics 365.

In Part 1 of this series of posts I have looked at creating a new custom connector. If after reading part 1 you are still happy to do all the DIY, then here is the next part of my series about cust…

Microsoft Flow has currently 211 connectors available. Sometimes however you might find that you need to create custom connectors into applications that aren’t available in the list of connec…

We've been on a journey to modernize user experiences throughout SharePoint. Lists and libraries are the primary containers for data and content, enriched with custom metadata. Previously, we introduced column formatting, which lets you cut and paste JSON scripts into a formatting window to add...

In yesterday’s post (as part of my #24DaysPowerPlatform) I introduced the Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow) Mobile Apps. On thing I chose as todays topic is a functionality that …

It’s Day 15 of my #24DaysPowerPlatform! And it’s time for some mobile apps! During the last days I’ve shown you some examples of what is possible with the members of the PowerPlatform – but everything…

Welcome to today's PowerPlatform blog post! Christmas is approaching very fast and with the use of the PowerPlatform tools I would like to build a Christmas WishApp using PowerApps, PowerBI and Micros…

While you have been building stunning applications on PowerApps, you’ve requested a way to view the latest enhancements and new features that our team is releasing each week. Today we are launching PowerApps Weekly Release Notes. This will give you visibility into the latest features and optimizations that we’re shipping on a weekly basis.

Makers can now extend the power of WYSIWYG, low-code customization, offered by canvas apps, to model-driven forms. Using embedded canvas apps makers can easily design and create rich visual…

Reference information for the Color enumeration and ColorFade, ColorValue, and RGBA functions in PowerApps, including syntax and examples

In this post, I will explain the default search that the default app gives and the alternatives available and the issue of delegation. This post is to support my session at SharePoint Saturday Cambridge 2018 and is to cover the issues of filtering data based on a search box. This post uses a simple app […]

Have you ever asked yourself, “how can I increase the performance and reliability of my customizations and extensions?” and you just didn’t know where to start. Or the pressure to meet those new…