Customizing your Power Apps SharePoint Forms for Content Types

SharePoint is great at managing an organizations content and its metadata using fields and content types. For those who are new to SharePoint and information architecture, Content Types are a way to describe a specific type of item and contain the description about the item (metadata fields). The out-of-the-box SharePoint form experience can be customized using Power … Continue reading Customizing your Power Apps SharePoint Forms for Content Types

Assessing your Power Platform’s Current State for Governance

Since its inception, Microsoft’s low-code development Power Platform has been positioned as a fast learning, low barrier to entry solution for many organizations. Citizen developers are able to quickly develop apps and workflows to help digitize and streamline their business processes. Given the simplicity, it begs the question whether governance is required for the Power … Continue reading Assessing your Power Platform’s Current State for Governance

AutoSave using Power Apps, Part 2: Screen Transitions

In the first part of this two-part blog series, I discussed an approach to use a Power App timer to perform AutoSave actions. While it works well, there are some caveats to consider around, such as frequency of saving and implications on data cross multiple screens. In this article, I am discussing a screen-specific approach … Continue reading AutoSave using Power Apps, Part 2: Screen Transitions

AutoSave using Power Apps, Part 1: Timers

If you’ve been using computers in the not too distant past, then you may remember those dreadful moments where you’ve made some important changes to a file and see it fizzle into thin air due to a power outage or inadvertently closing an application. Microsoft first introduced AutoSave in the July 17 update (version 1707 … Continue reading AutoSave using Power Apps, Part 1: Timers

Using Environment Variables as Lists

When working with the Power Platform, one recommended practice is to use solutions for packaging all the components — Power Apps, flows, Dataverse entities and option sets, and more. Solutions make it easy to move these components between environments. This is important for application lifecycle management. Environment variables are part of solutions that are used to identify … Continue reading Using Environment Variables as Lists