Editable Tables
This blog post highlights how one can create a PowerApps Canvas app to create an editable table to interact with the data in the database quickly without having to connect through a separate interface.
» Read more New training app for building Microsoft Office components
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.
» Read moreUX Patterns:Custom Slider
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…
» Read moreNew Best Practices Community Galleries!
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 moreUX Patterns: Multi-select
In many scenarios, you would want to enable certain columns as multi-select. In this blog, let’s look at an example on how to achieve this using PowerApps. Example: Let’s build a simple application…
» Read moreDeep Linking in PowerApps
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…
» Read moreUX Patterns: Image Slider Control
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…
» Read moreUX Patterns: Expander Control (with expand/collapse animation)
In this blog post, we will create an expander control. An expander control can be useful to show and hide sections of your UI and therefore declutter your app. We will start with a simple expander that show/hide content and we will finish by adding a expand/collapse animation (linear but in theory, we should be able to add easing In/out)
» Read morePart 2 of Tabbed User Interface – Mobile Version
Last week Carlos gave us an excellent example of a tabbed format within a tablet format PowerApp. Check it out here:: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/design-tips-part-1-handling-tab-control-scenarios-in-powerapps-for-full-screen-formats/. This is another example of a tabbed format for mobile phones. The design is by Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi who is ingenious when it comes to PowerApps patterns. I’ve enjoyed using this format as well because it’s quick, easy to configure, and data driven.
» Read moreFun with Gallery Graphics and SharePoint Lists
PowerApps makes it very easy to design forms that include graphics; both images and graphs. This blog shows how to combine three fun tactics into one gallery control: 1. Pick up images from the SharePoint List Picture Column HyperLink (images are stored in my OneDrive for Business Folder named “CategoryIcons”) 2. Create my own Bar Graphic based on List Data 3. Filter the Data Using Images in the Group Legend
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