For those who work with primary and foreign keys on CDS and SQL Server, we have added GUID as a first class data type. Although not common, you may want to beat the rush and start updating any formulas that use literal GUID strings.
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When we connect an app to a SQL Server table that has a column of type time, the values don’t show in a user-friendly format by default in PowerApps. In this post we’ll go over some expressions that can be used to improve the experience for the app users, by converting from the duration format to a more natural hh:mm:ss one.
» Read more Have you noticed that when you create a custom field in the Common Data Service for Apps that all the fields are all prefixed with cr5ca_ or some other random string and spaces are stripped? …
» Read more Over the summer we made it easy to walk Many-to-One relationships. With a single dot you can walk across a relationship from one entity to another. First(Orders).Customer.Name is all that…
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Over the next two months, we’re continuing to roll out a series of deep-dive videos on the Official PowerApps YouTube channel. These videos teach a wide variety of app building concepts and provide examples from our PowerApps Office templates so you can get hands on.
» Read more Want to learn how to build PowerApps, but don’t know where to start? This how-to guide will take you step-by-step through the process of building various Microsoft Office components in PowerApps.
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Hi everyone. In our latest release, you can now automatically format your formulas! You can take all those very compact formulas, that can be very difficult to read and understand, and make them…
» Read more PowerApps connecting to SharePoint allows you to build complex scenarios without having to customize the formulas, however there are times when you have specific business rules that need to be addressed. We noticed a few questions that appeared in the community on how to set default values new items in forms, especially complex SharePoint columns like Choice, Lookup and Person, so this post will show how you can do that.
» Read more Get your app started faster by preloading collections in parallel with the new Concurrent function.
» Read more In all forms of software development, from low code to pro-dev environments, makers try to follow best practices. However, it is not always clear exactly how to do that. We have heard from customers…
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