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

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!

I’m running a little late…

These are infamous words spoken by many of us as we run from meeting to meeting or between locations. While we can’t use Power Automate to stop the clock, there are some great components that, when put together, can help us notify others of our arrival. In this article, I’m discussing a flow I built … Continue reading I’m running a little late…

Reduce Virtual Meeting Fatigue using Power Automate

In a recent research Microsoft study on the impacts that back-to-back virtual meetings have on our brains, the message was very clear. According to Michael Bohan, Sr. director of Human Factors Engineering at Microsoft, Our research shows breaks are important, not just to make us less exhausted by the end of the day, but to actually … Continue reading Reduce Virtual Meeting Fatigue using Power Automate

Create Modern SharePoint Sites with Template Homepages using Power Automate

Have you ever wanted to easily automate the creation of Modern SharePoint sites without the needs of development or complex configurations? Well, you can. Power Automate with the help of the SharePoint connector enables users with the proper permissions to create and configure SharePoint sites and even apply SharePoint designs and scripts to them. However, … Continue reading Create Modern SharePoint Sites with Template Homepages using Power Automate

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

Creating Custom Document Sets using Power Automate

Document Sets are great at organizing your related documents in SharePoint. Coupled with the ability to automatically add documents upon creation, prepending the name with the Document Set name and applying other other metadata make them a great candidate for many business scenarios. However, there are scenarios where the out of the box fall short: … Continue reading Creating Custom Document Sets using Power Automate

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