Power Apps SaveData: Cool Cookies!
Do you want to retain user settings or preferences when an app is closed, but not have to write back to a data source? Power Apps SaveData and LoadData functions allow you to save data locally to a mobile device …
Power Platform AI Invoice Processing
Microsoft released their new AI Invoice Processing capability in preview last month. I took it for a test run using Power Apps and Power Automate. How do I rate it? Read on to find out! AI Invoice Processing I’ve been …
Display Scraped Web Data in Power Apps
In this article I’ll show how to display scraped web data in Power Apps. For this exercise we’ll use the Premier League Table from the BBC Sport website. You’ll see how straightforward it is to use Power Automate Desktop to …
Web Scraping with Power Automate
Have you ever wanted to extract data that isn’t available using Connectors? In this post, I’ll explain web scraping with Power Automate and give you some great pointers on the best approach Web Scraping with Power Automate Connectors Vs Desktop …
Dynamic Power Apps Dropdown Box
In the last post I set myself the challenge of creating an dynamic Power Apps Dropdown box that shows the number of records in a table that match the Dropdown selection criteria. The requirement was to not have hardcoding so …
3 Really Cool Power Apps Dropdowns
Power Apps Dropdowns don’t need to be dull! There are many cool features you can add to Dropdowns. In this post I’ll demonstrate 3 techniques to save time and improve usability Power Apps Dropdowns Dropdown 1: Here I’ve taken 2 …
Power Apps Galleries – Linking Tables
Aligning data from multiple tables can be achieved in several ways. Cascading Power Apps Galleries, creating virtual tables using AddColumns, even simply using the humble Label. These techniques can be combined together to deliver the best solution Galleries and Relational Data …
Dynamically Sort Galleries
Even more tips on using Galleries to find a specific records in a data table! In this article, I’ll explain how to search across multiple columns. Once we have a reduced set of data, SortByColumns can be used to dynamically sort Galleries Table …
Filter and StartsWith
The Power Apps Filter and StartsWith functions are very flexible and can be used to search single or multiple columns in a table In this article I’ll show how to give users the option to choose which columns to search Filter …
Multiple Search Options
No need to restrict a Power Apps Gallery search to a single method, multiple search options are possible. This approach uses either cascading Dropdown Boxes to refine a search, or if you already know what you are looking for, type …
Power Apps Dropdown Boxes
Dropdown boxes are really useful when used in conjunction with a Gallery to drill down and reduce a large data set to a much smaller one, so specific Records can be identified The best way to construct Dropdown boxes is …
Online Resources: UI/UX for Power Apps
There are many sites to help with your UI/UX for Power Apps development, but here are my favourite online resources. As well as giving you some great ideas they’ll also save lots of time with pre-written code! Online Resources UI/UX …