Some big news! Or at least much bigger news. Canvas app SaveData and LoadData functions are now only limited by the amount of available app memory and local storage on a device. The previous limit of a few megabytes no longer applies. This is a huge improvement that will increase the stability of any app that … Continue reading “SaveData and LoadData Unleashed”
» Más información For regular readers of this blog, you may recall a blog post by Carlos Figueira on working with SQL server time values. In it, Carlos used the Mid, Find, Substitute, and other functions to parse an ISO 8601 duration string such as “PT2H1M39S” which represents 2 hours, 1 minute, and 39 seconds. Carlos’ solution works great … Continue reading “More Regular Expressions for Canvas apps”
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App templates in PowerApps are a great way to jump start the creation of an app that can be deployed in your tenant. Those templates create a polished, finished app, and in many cases it creates an Excel file so that the app can be used right away – and in most scenarios the app … Continue reading “Converting the Shoutouts template to SQL Server”
» Más información For the last few months we have been rolling out new features for Canvas apps when connected to the Common Data Service for Apps: One-to-Many relationships Option sets Many-to-Many relationships Aggregate delegation We have been doing this work under an Experimental switch, off by default for all apps: Thank you for playing with these features and … Continue reading “New CDS capabilities for Canvas apps enter Preview”
» Más información Sum, Min, Max, and Average functions in Canvas apps are aggregate functions that can reduce a large amount of data down to a single value. For example, Average could be used to find the average age of a class of students using Average( Students, Age ). These functions can also be used with the Filter function … Continue reading “Delegation of Aggregate functions for CDS”
» Más información We continue to expand our Canvas support for the Common Data Service for Apps, on the road to CDS + Canvas = Awesome. With this installment we have refined how Option Sets and Two Option data types work and have added support for Many-to-Many relationships. These features are available now with the CDS Experimental Connector. …
» Más información 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.
» Más información 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.
» Más información 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? …
» Más información 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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