ConfirmExit Pop-up
Exiting an app is fine when data has been saved, but the inadvertant closing of an app can lead to lost work. Read on to find out how to use the ConfirmExit property to help prevent users losing unsaved changes …
Activate the Android Back Button
Android users frequently use the back button on the lower panel of the Android interface to perform a back operation and return to previously viewed screens By default, with a canvas app, this button invokes the Android prompt to close …
Creating a Responsive Canvas App
Canvas Apps can be accessed from many different devices such as phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. A responsive canvas app automatically changes its layout depending on the screen size of the device This can include simply stretching or re-sizing the …
Create Accessible Canvas Apps – 25 Point Guide
Accessible software is designed to work for people who experience disabilities such as visual, hearing, or cognitive impairments, and who may interact with software using assistive technologies such as a screen reader Power Apps Studio has the functionality to create …
Power Platform Testing Tools
Testing is critical for all applications including the Power Platform and is a key part of the software development life cycle Testing identifies issues or defects early in the release process and provides an opportunity to fix these issues to …
Power Platform Solution Upgrade, Update and Patch Summary
Power Platform solutions are containers to transport apps and other Power Platform components such as flows or Dataverse custom tables from one environment to another There are several ways a solution can be updated. In this post I’ve summarised those …
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Power Automate Flow Limits
Following on from the post on Canvas Apps Sizing & Performance, a question was raised about Flows and whether there are capacity limitations and recommendations relating to Power Automate flow limits Maximum Flow Size Because Power Automate Flows run in …
Canvas App Size & Performance
Canvas App Size A canvas app runs in a client browser as a single web page and the larger the canvas app size, the greater the device memory that can be required for the app to run If an app …
Flow Retry Policy
If an action in a Power Automate cloud flow runs as expected, a HTTP 200 response is received together with any data requested. However, if the action doesn’t complete due to an ‘intermittent failure’ then one of the following status …
Flow Error Handling
From time-to-time, things don’t work out exactly as expected, in flows as in life! Using error handling, you can specify an action to run only after the failure of the previous action Error Handling In this example, I want to …
Child Flows
Power Automate flows have a maximum size of 500 actions. However, long before you get anywhere close to this limit, think about breaking a monolithic flow down into integrated smaller child flows Child Flows Child flows have a manual trigger …
Dataverse Security Concepts
Dataverse has been developed for Dynamics where comprehensive data security is essential. For this reason, Dataverse security is incredibly powerful and flexible, but with that comes a level of complexity! In this post I’ve tried to simplify and explain the …