Personal Case Study: Managing Type 1 Diabetes using the Power Platform and AI

If you follow my other blogs or presentations, you will notice that I like to share information on how technology can be used to improve business processes to and optimize how people work using the Microsoft Power Platform and related technologies. I have written an article for Microsoft where I discuss how I used the … Continue reading Personal Case Study: Managing Type 1 Diabetes using the Power Platform and AI

Your Journey into the Power Platform

If you have been working in Office 365 over the past few years, you have undoubtedly come across or heard about the Power Platform. There are endless possibilities on how it can help your work. I wanted to share with you options on how to start your personal journey, as a citizen developer, based on … Continue reading Your Journey into the Power Platform

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

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

Functional Programming in Power Apps? Yes, It’s possible!

Power Apps is an declarative low code solution that has often been compared to Excel in that modifying a value somewhere in an app will update all its references throughout. This is all great, but in some cases it would be great to execute entire blocks of code to complete more complex tasks. Suppose we … Continue reading Functional Programming in Power Apps? Yes, It’s possible!

Filtering Lookup Columns in SharePoint using Power Apps

When your information architecture calls for certain fields that a user needs to select a value from, SharePoint provides three options — Choice, Lookup, and Managed Metadata fields. Which one you use in your implementation will depends on the specific business needs: is the use local or global, are values fixed or changing, and who … Continue reading Filtering Lookup Columns in SharePoint using Power Apps

Keeping your Apps Theme In Sync with Teams

A few months ago, I published an article Love your battery. Use Dark Mode that talked about extending smart phone battery life by using dark mode or switching between modes when building Power Apps. This works well, but may cause an inconsistent experience when loading the app in Teams. For example, if the app was set to … Continue reading Keeping your Apps Theme In Sync with Teams

Creating Banded Galleries in Power Apps

Many of us are attracted to Power Apps for the speed and simplicity in which we can create feature-rich applications that can draw from many data sources and interact with a variety of systems. However, despite its many improvements over the past few years, Power Apps still lacks some of the options available in web … Continue reading Creating Banded Galleries in Power Apps

Creating Teams-Aware Power Apps

Recently, Microsoft released an important enhancement to Power Apps that enables Teams to pass important content information directly into the app when calling it. This means that when an app is added to a team or channel, it can leverage this information to simplify the user experience for the user. Suppose you want to have … Continue reading Creating Teams-Aware Power Apps