In this post I’ll explain the Canvas App naming conventions I use for screens and controls. This follows on from the previous post in which I discussed how and why I name variables and collections Clear and consistent naming conventions ensure […]
Good canvas app naming conventions for variables and collections ensure their purpose is clear and understood. A consistent and recognised format both helps the App Maker and assists other developers conducting a peer review or handover The PowerApps Canvas App
Do you want to add emojis in canvas apps or add a special Unicode character to draw attention to a particular section of content? If so, read on to find out how this can be easily done An emoji is
Have you ever needed to give a super-user the ability to easily add or remove users of a Power App? Here’s how to do that from within an app without needing to directly access Azure Active Directory Security Groups Security
Power Apps delegation is the processing of a query within the data source itself rather than by Power Apps. Delegable queries are far more efficient because the query is executed quickly on the server and the full set of results
Recently I’ve posted quite a bit on how to navigate around Dataverse to identify related rows in different tables. With self-joins, rows can be related to other rows in the same table Consider the example of an organisation that has
If you need to identify Dataverse rows and you are working with tables containing lots of data, FetchXML is a way to get those rows without any delegation issues! Recently I’ve been working on a Canvas Apps project that required
In this post, I’ll cover how to sort a gallery by a Dataverse Lookup column. The most straightforward approach is to use the Sort function but SortByColumns can also be used and this is a little more complex. However, be
Have you ever had difficulty sorting a Power Apps gallery? Using the Switch function is the usually the best way to do this. In this post, I’ll demo how to allow your users to sort a Power App gallery by
Dataverse Views are a great way to simplify formulas and save time! When working with Dataverse in a Canvas App, often you find yourself using similar Filter formulas many times. If that’s the case, then a Dataverse view is just what
January 2024 Update – Microsoft has improved the table navigation. Read about the lastest functionality: Navigating Dataverse Tables. In this post, I’ll show how the Filter function can be used to identify Dataverse relations, including Child and Grandchild rows and
January 2024 Update – Microsoft has improved the table navigation. Read about the lastest functionality: Navigating Dataverse Tables. Recently, I wrote about how saving a Dataverse row to a variable can help Dataverse navigation. In that post, I used a series
