Recently, the company I work for (Centric Consulting, check us out!) held a Hackathon to get our consultants a bit more exposure to Machine Learning. It was a day and half of different teams putting together something that could demonstrate what Machine Learning is, and how it could be used. In the case of my…
Category: PowerApps
PowerApps Development Strategies – Part 2
In my previous post, I discussed a bit about the Tools we can leverage to develop and manage Apps in PowerApps. For this Post, we won’t use any of those tools! Plan First, then Develop Microsoft has done a fantastic job of selling the narrative of how simple it is to create and use PowerApps….
PowerApps Development Strategies – Part 1
As PowerApps continues it’s long march to maturity, it’s important to stop and evaluate where the platform is in regards to developing and managing your PowerApps in the Enterprise. In a traditional Enterprise Development organization, you have many tools and strategies available to you when architecting, designing, testing, and managing code bases for your applications. …
PowerApps Tip Corner – Use Variables!
As any developer will tell you, variables are some of the most important objects when you are creating an application, and that holds true for PowerApps as well. One thing I’ve learned about PowerApps (in particular when designing them), is that the more screens you have, the slower editing an App can be. This is…
PowerApps Tip Corner – Know your Delegation!
While PowerApps is a very powerful tool, and can connect to MANY data sources, one of the biggest limitations is in it’s ability to pull back records from a data source. For performance reasons, PowerApps will only pull in the first 500 records from any data source. This allows the App to perform well, but…
Print a Form in PowerApps
I think one of the biggest roadblocks for users converting from InfoPath to PowerApps has been the lack of any Printing support inside of Powerapps. While I believe the support is in the Pipeline for PowerApps, it is possible to create Printable Forms in Powerapps today! It’s not the cleanest path to Print, so bear…
PowerApps Tip Corner – Getting Past the 500 Items Limit (somewhat)
So, one thing I’ve wanted to do on this blog is to be able to get some Quick tips out to readers who are interested in small things I might have run across while implementing PowerApps. So, without further ado, welcome to the PowerApps Tip Corner! No, it’s not an awesome name, and I’ll probably…
Sorting Columns in the PowerApps Data Table
I’m hoping that by the time most people read this, native support for filtering and sorting the new Data Table control in PowerApps will be released, but since some users may be wanting this functionality now, here’s a quick guide to adding sorting to your columns: In my sample app, I have added a Data…
Microsoft snuck in support for SharePoint Libraries into PowerApps
If you haven’t been paying close attention to some recent updates to PowerApps, you may not have noticed that Microsoft has started offering support to connections to SharePoint Document libraries. They recently posted a video to the PowerApps blog on how to connect to a Document Library, and from some initial testing, this seems to…
What IS Microsoft PowerApps?
Lately, I’ve heard from a lot of people: “I’ve heard about Microsoft PowerApps, but what is it? What does it do? What doesn’t it do? Do I already have it? If so, is it tough to use?” PowerApps was just released live in January, and while people are starting to hear the name more, I…