Intro Low-code platforms like the Power Platform have democratized software development. They make it much easier to build applications and automate workflows. However, a new technique is emerging in the pro-code space that is quick and powerful: Vibe Coding. Vibe […]

Sharing Power Apps When using a group to share a Power App, both security groups and Microsoft 365 (M365) groups are options. Each type of group has its own benefits and limitations, depending on your needs. In this post, we’ll

Recently I was investigating removing a component in a production environment, that stubbornly remained. It had me thinking for longer than it should, but after first diving down a couple of rabbit holes, I realised what the issue was. The

The Power Platform provides immense flexibility in connecting apps and automating workflows with APIs. A common scenario is using a Canvas App to trigger a Power Automate flow, which in turn, uses the HTTP connector to interact with external APIs.

App Sharing Under certain circumstances, it may be useful to allow App Makers to create Power Apps, but restrict them from sharing the app they create with others. The security role that Makers are given to create Power Apps is

Flow Ownership When you create a flow, you are the primary owner of the flow. The primary owner can be changed, but only if the flow is inside a solution. Co-owners can be added to the flow, and co-owners have

Here is a simple trick to get around one of the limitations of dropdown controls, the fact that they can’t display data from related tables. In a dropdown control, only data in columns native to the table specified in the

Default Record By default, when a screen containing a Gallery is loaded, the first item in the Gallery is automatically selected. Sometimes this is helpful and sometimes not If you prefer to not have any record selected when the screen

Combining 2 Columns Sometimes it really helps to combine 2 columns to display in a dropdown control, for example if you have first and last names in separate columns Its straightforward to do that by using the AddColumns function within

Navigating Dataverse – 2024 Update  In 2021, I wrote a series of blog posts on how to navigate up and down a chain of Dataverse tables At the time, finding the related parent or child records was straightforward using dot

The Date Picker Control – When using a Date Picker control to select a date and store it in Dataverse, the format of the stored content depends on whether the Dataverse column has been defined as ‘Date only’ or as

Filtering on Date Fields – I’ve always found working with Dataverse date columns in Power Apps temperamental. I’ve always found a solution that works, but the nagging doubt has remained that I wasn’t completely clear why there was a problem
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