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Backup your PowerApps apps for non-CDS environments
BlogLooking for a way to automate backing up your PowerApps for non CDS environments? Here is a post on how, along with a good administration scenario.
Introducing Brian T Jackett: PowerApps and Microsoft Flow Social Media Sample
BlogWe are happy to introduce Mr. Brian T Jackett from https://briantjackett.com . Brian is a Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft specializing in SharePoint development / administration and PowerShell for over 9 years. Brian enjoys giving back to the community through giving presentations, planning and volunteering at conferences, maintaining this SharePoint/.Net centric blog, and contributing to the SharePoint Twitterverse. He also holds several Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) for SharePoint related technologies. He authored this blog to walk us through a scenario for gathering social media input and working with that data in various components. This includes Azure SQL, Azure web apps, Azure API apps, and Custom APIs.
Creative Apps and Design Challenge – Part 2 – The How
BlogIt is easy to create apps that are beautiful, as well as easy to use, when you leverage PowerApps formulas alongside media components which can act as custom controls. In this blog, we’ll learn how to create a single page app that requires no typing at all to submit humidity and temperature data to a SharePoint list. This part of the app build will take around 20 minutes to complete.
Featured Video: Office Mechanics Extensibility Options in Dynamics 365
BlogLuis Camino from the Dynamics 365 team joins Jeremy Chapman to explain high value business extensibility options for Dynamics 365 on this Office Mechanics Video.
Working with large SharePoint lists in PowerApps
BlogToday we are happy to announce support for building apps that connect to large SharePoint lists using PowerApps, a top request from our users.
Creative Apps and Design Challenge – Part 3 The Annimated Pie Chart
BlogAs a last step in my creative challenge, we learn to make the animated pie chart as an app focal point. It’s really as easy as 1-2-3!
Introducing PowerApps admin center
BlogEnterprises use PowerApps to create business apps involving data and other resources that are critical for the enterprise and need to be restricted to a specific audience. An admin role is critical…
Performance, Refresh button, ForAll, and multiple field lookups
BlogRelease 2.0.531 is bursting at the seams with fresh improvements and new functionality. We’ll cover a few of the bigger items here, with the full list on the What’s New page. Performance…
How to upload images from the camera control to Azure blob storage
BlogThis article explains how to create a Azure API App which takes in an image file, stores it on a Azure blob storage account and returns the URL of the image. This API can then be called from any application including PowerApps.
Guest Blog: Build Custom API on Microsoft Flow and PowerApps with Authentication
BlogGuest blog post from Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki, where he shows us how to build an use a custom api and the authentication with Azure AD and Google account
Auto-generate thumbnails using an Azure Function and Azure Blob Storage
BlogNow that you can use the Azure Blob Storage connector inside of your canvas PowerApp, you can leverage the advanced capabilities of Azure functions inside of your Azure blob storage. A common…
World Cup 2018 Prediction Game with PowerApps
BlogIf you are a soccer fan then this blog is for you. With the world cup kicking off in just a week, I thought I would share a fun app that you can deploy within your organization to get your colleagues…
Upload files from PowerApps using the Azure Blob Storage connector
BlogOne of the more common request we have seen from customers is that they want to use PowerApps and use Azure Blob storage to store their media files. So far, this has not been possible out of the box –…
ShowError function changes its name to Notify as it learns some new tricks
BlogA quick note. A few months ago we introduced a new ShowError function that could display a banner error message. We heard from the community that they liked it but wished they could display…
New Capabilities for Testing Model-Driven Apps
BlogWe are excited to announce several key enhancements and updates to automated testing capabilities for Dynamics 365 and model-driven standalone PowerApps. With this release we are providing…
Building Power BI reports for the Common Data Service for Apps
BlogIn the May update of Power BI desktop, we are excited to see the release of the new Power BI connector for the Common Data Service for Apps. The CDS for Apps Power BI connector allows you to connect directly to your entities and build compelling reports and dashboards, and share them with users on Power BI online and mobile apps.
New Experimental Feature: Error Handling and Writing Null values to databases
BlogYou can now capture errors, display custom error notifications, and most importantly write Null values to databases. This is an experimental feature that you will need to opt-in to as we continue improving this feature over the months ahead.
Upgrade your previous version Common Data Service database, apps, and flows
BlogLearn how to upgrade your previous version Common Data Service (CDS) database along with any canvas apps and flows that depend on it to the new CDS for Apps database. Or, delete your previous version CDS database and create a new empty CDS for Apps database.
Island Council of Tenerife organizes community events using the Power Platform
BlogLook at how the Insular Management for Sport, Culture and Leisure (IDECO), a company of the Island Council of Tenerife, the governing body for the Canary Islands, is using PowerApps for Ansina, their program of sociocultural dynamization and social intervention tailored towards the elderly.
Retain your resources and data in Trial environments
BlogYou can retain the data, apps, and other resources from a Trial environment which expires in 30 days and import it in another environment.
Scenario 2: Collect customer feedback in SharePoint after order delivery
BlogIn today’s digital world, organizations use and work with several applications for multiple different reasons. Often, data is stored and maintained in different applications and exchange of data…
Extending Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations with PowerApps Blog Series
BlogExtending Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations with PowerApps
Display names enter Preview for Canvas apps
BlogHave 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? …
New! “Friday Functions” series helps you to master formulas!
BlogHave 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!
