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SNCF: Power platform customer success story

Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Principal Program Manager, Tuesday, August 21, 2018

SNCF is France’s national state-owned railway company that operates the country’s national rail services, including the TGV, France’s high-speed rail network. Its functions include operation of railway services for passengers and freight, and maintenance and signaling of rail infrastructure. In this blog post, we will look at SNCF’s use of the Power platform, from an early win at the technical center at Saint Pierre des Corps to the systematic approach for growing adoption across all 165,000 licensed Office 365 users.

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Tips for making your apps more maintainable

Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Principal Program Manager, Tuesday, July 10, 2018

In this blog, we will go over 10 tips that I find useful when building apps with PowerApps. They help me keep my app easy to read, debug and maintain. Hope you find them useful as well.

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World Cup 2018 Prediction Game with PowerApps

Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Principal Program Manager, Friday, June 8, 2018

If 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…

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UX Patterns: NumericUpDown, Custom Rating and Gauge Controls

Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Principal Program Manager, Monday, May 14, 2018

In this blog, I am going show how to build few composite controls using the built-in controls that ships with PowerApps. NumericUpDown NumericUpDown control is spin box that displays numeric…

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Performance considerations with PowerApps

Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Principal Program Manager, Wednesday, January 17, 2018

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 response…

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UX Patterns: Camera Shutter Button

Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Principal Program Manager, Monday, December 4, 2017

The current camera control has an OnSelect event that is typically used to capture the image. So when a user click anywhere in the camera control, you would normally do something along the line:…

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UX Patterns:Custom Slider

Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Principal Program Manager, Wednesday, November 15, 2017

In a previous blog, I showed how to use a gallery to create a more complex control such as the accordion control. In this example, I will show how you can build a completely different slider…

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Deep Linking in PowerApps

Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Principal Program Manager, Thursday, June 8, 2017

A common scenario when building apps is to enable deep linking into specific screens within your application. In the example below, we have a catalogue of devices that you can browse, look at the…

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UX Patterns: Image Slider Control

Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Principal Program Manager, Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Image slider is a popular control in web and mobile apps. In our scenario, let’s imagine that we are introducing new features of an app. For that we will build an image slider with an indicator…

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UX Patterns: Control Positioning

Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Principal Program Manager, Tuesday, April 11, 2017

During the development of your app, you might find it useful to define some helper variables that will help you layout your elements or controls within the screen. In this example, we define the…

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