History was made at the recent Microsoft Business Application Summit where we launched the PowerApps User Group and hosted our first PowerApps User Group meeting! It was an event to remember, opening exciting opportunities to network and expand adoption!
» Read more Paul Culmsee is a business strategist, Microsoft MVP, app maker, and all up technology enthusiast who is always willing to share professional experiences, best practices, and fun app stories! Today I’d like to highlight one of his latest blogs which he entitled “How to make a PowerApps activity feed via SharePoint search”. This 3-part series of blogs truly showcase how we can combine the rich features and services in Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, and PowerApps to create highly practical and beautiful business applications for productivity and collaboration.
» Read more Have you been craving a better understanding of formulas and functions? Have you reached out to me for help and asked for tutorials too? Well, ask and you will receive! The new Friday Functions Video Series is for serious PowerAppers like myself that want to become ninjas at using functions and formulas!
» Read more In my last blog post I covered support options and the many ways to get help using PowerApps. Today, I’d like to expand on the opportunities that you have to partner and collaborate with us. We believe that the success of PowerApps depends largely on whether you can be successful building apps. Therefore, we are developing programs designed to facilitate feedback, and to enable you to participate in the roadmap of PowerApps features worldwide!
» Read more It is a wonderful thing when PowerApps works as intended, and we’re all able to make and use awesome apps quickly and easily! Although this occurs most of the time, we know how frustrating it can be when you’re bottlenecked due to lack of information, product issues, and/or unclear error messages. With that said, I’d like to outline the many options available for getting support when you need it.
» Read more We are pleased to announce the refresh of our Best Practices section in the community. This area of the community will focus on the three primary areas for successful app building: Administering PowerApps, Creating Apps, and Expressions and Formulas. We encourage everyone to jump into these forums not only to ask, but also to answer, questions in these topic areas! We are sure this will help app-makers to optimize the success of their apps as well as give all community experts an opportunity to showcase best practices and lessons learned.
» Read more Recently I volunteered to create a calendar app that we could use to share events across our organization, especially in the areas of Diversity and Inclusion. The target goal was to enable us to broadly share relevant events, but to allow consumers of the app to select ‘which’ events they would like added to their calendars. This was a really fun project that I was able to finish on a plane flight from DC to Seattle. Learn how I expedited this app with a little bit of planning…
» Read more We were so excited to release a way for you to connect to Document Libraries and other list items like Task Lists and Calendars! This opens a wealth of new opportunities to app makers for enhanced business applications.
» Read more Please join us in celebrating three new feature experiences for PowerApps, Power BI, and Microsoft Flow automation. We are thrilled to share these opportunities for innovation in application design, analytics, and automation – directly from our seats at the Data Insights Summit in Seattle!
» Read more We are happy to announce a suite of new features which come directly from your ideas and suggestions around faster app builds, and a more user friendly experience! Please join me in evangelizing the following six (6) top feature releases this month!
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