Building Enterprise-wide Multilingual PowerApps

Supporting multiple languages for corporations is a reality. It may be an organization operating in multilingual countries, such as Canada, Belgium, Italy, or others, or having a workforce that that is distributed across the globe. One common challenge in building solutions to support multilingualism is the creation and maintenance of such solutions as they evolve … Continue reading Building Enterprise-wide Multilingual PowerApps

Adding a Flic button trigger to a Flow triggered by PowerApps

When building PowerApps, you can use Flow to perform a lot of actions that may be more complex than what you can or want to do directly within the PowerApp. Flows are invoked via any a number of imperative properties of your PowerApp, such as OnStart() - App OnVisible(), OnHidden() - Screen OnSelect() - Button, … Continue reading Adding a Flic button trigger to a Flow triggered by PowerApps

Building Responsive(ish) PowerApps

Providing users with the ability to access content on their mobile devices has become common place and somewhat of a necessity today. In the best case, it would be good to have a single solution that can serve multiple devices and orientations. This article discusses how you can achieve this for PowerApps. App Settings Screen … Continue reading Building Responsive(ish) PowerApps

Tracking your Agile project progress using Azure DevOps and Flow – The Sprint Burndown Chart

Microsoft Azure DevOps is a great tool that allows you to manage your Agile projects. It allows you to easily track most of the information a scrum master or product owner are currently interested in, such as your product backlog, sprint backlog, burn down chart, and more. If you're new to Agile project management, I … Continue reading Tracking your Agile project progress using Azure DevOps and Flow – The Sprint Burndown Chart

Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (Toronto)

If you've missed the Microsoft Ignite event last September in Orlando, FL, no worries. You still have a chance to get a lot of the information right here in Toronto next week. Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (Toronto) will be taking place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Jan 10-11, 2019. There are over … Continue reading Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (Toronto)

Staying Healthy with Flow and PowerApps

Getting sick is never fun, especially with small kids at home. This is why it’s important that we take our meds quickly to avoid prolonging our recovery. In the past, I would stack up each on some common meds to be ready just in case I needed them. However, I would still find myself either … Continue reading Staying Healthy with Flow and PowerApps

Bypassing Connector Authentication in PowerApps

Have you ever had a PowerApp request your permission to access various services before it would load? If so, then that PowerApp is leveraging these connectors in some way. But what if you don't want each user to have to do that? What if some of the services require permissions that the end user doesn't … Continue reading Bypassing Connector Authentication in PowerApps

Workaround to update SharePoint document metadata custom columns

Microsoft has been making great strides in improving PowerApps functionality over the past year. In late 2017, the product team announced the ability to set values for Managed Metadata (aka Taxonomy) columns in PowerApps and Flow. This is great if you are using managed metadata fields in a SharePoint List, but does not work for … Continue reading Workaround to update SharePoint document metadata custom columns