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Express Design feature in PowerApps let you quickly build an app within a few clicks. Advantages here is you build an app by reading an image. Just like PDF scanner, read your image, identify what is what, and transform and build at the background effectively.  Easy, huh! I was excited as well   Well, this post is my 10 minutes effort what I found. Initially I started with a complex image setting my high expectation to Power Apps family. I went ahead and prepare to build from image in Power Apps portal. My first experimental UI was a pure .NET application having wonderful UI with more than 160 controls sitting on the same page. I took a screenshot of it and let Power Apps to play around it.   At the very begging Power Apps let me know this is too heavy. Recomended approch is to have within 30 controls in UI. I keep more than 30 and went ahead to see how it works. This is standrad UI which initially ask whether you would like to create a Dataverse table now, or latter...

A long, may be very long demand from Power Apps developers, UI builders, is now Microsoft is going to fill by introducing Co-authoring feature in experimental basis. Microsoft announced on 1st November about this ad here the link - Experimental Co-authoring for Power Apps Studio | Microsoft Power Apps This is going to speedup the development phase, reduce the merging code in main app, and let the team work smartly and effectively. No doubt about this! Few things to remember ere, this feature is exclusively working for Power Apps Studios, and the changes merges asynchronously whenever click on save or sync option.  As this is on experimental basis rollout, so default this is turn off state. You need to take a step forward and turn on this feature. And feel free to submit your feedback - how this feature is working, what you like, what improvement you would like to see etc. So, let's be ready, and keep an eye on your Power Apps dashboard/App settings to see this feature is ready for ...

Why we will choose Power Apps and where we can fit this? key benefits of the Power Platform solution v   Simple and automated system used by floor technicians to record inventory used on projects v   Easy for technicians to enter parts used as they work with mobile devices on the floor v   Timely, accurate and relevant data – reducing the amount of manual entry and rework v   Seamless reconciling process – listing inventory, drafting PO, sending invoice v   Easy for Manufacturing company to track the inventory that is sent to the customer with the model-driven app v   Reporting – PO Report for Jobs and inventory used, On-hand Inventory so customer knows what is in the warehouse, and the replenishment report which shows which items need restocking. v   Rule-based BPM Engine for Process Modelling – This is all about ability to manage complex workflows (either serial or parallel), breakdown phases for each process step, execution through r...

Empower your team, build high productivity Business Apps without doing lots of hardcoding – Power Apps is the current trend -   Platform as Service on M 365  Platform. Microsoft Power Apps service url to know better about it https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/ In today’s post, I’ll walkthrough couple of tips, how-to in Power Apps world. Let’s start. How to put text color in Power Apps form – Label control do have a property called Color . Placing the color value like ColorValue(“Color.Aqua”) make the text color aqua in the form. How can we allow TAB control works on the PowerApps form – Control do have a property called ‘TabIndex’ . This contains number and based on the sequence number, keyboard TAB control move forward one after another.  How to move all controls in the PowerApps form at the same time – Place all your controls inside a Form, and move the form or resize the form. Using Multiline property of the Mode property of the Textbox, you can allow ...

In earlier post , we have gone through some insights of. Continuing with that, below is another important point on how PowerApps provides internal column names. For SharePoint and Excel data sources that contain column names with spaces, PowerApps will replace the spaces with " _x0020_ ". For example, " Column Name " in SharePoint or Excel will appear as " Column_x0020_Name " in PowerApps when displayed in the data layout or used in a formula. In this post, we’ll discuss on model driven apps. Let’s start. Model Driven Apps Model-driven app design is an approach that focuses on adding dashboards, forms, views, and charts to your apps. With no code, or very little, you can build apps that are simple or very complex. In canvas apps, the designer has total control over the app layout. In model-driven apps, on the other hand, much of the layout is determined by the components you add. The emphasis is more on quickly viewing your business data ...

Now, we are era of Power family – PowerApps , SharePoint , Power BI . And, I tagged it as P3  This is a great combination framework to develop business apps in scalable format. Obviously, We have support of another great technology seed – Microsoft Flow.  Mind-blowing workflow integration in easy step-by-step manner. Thank You Microsoft! This post mainly focuses on PowerApps, and I choose this as first place because it is new and getting some insight of it will help others as well. People who already work on this technology and facing issues or who just started working on it, will be most benefited. It is very simple (simpler than InfoPath) and easy to learn. Going through some key points on different PowerApps development areas here. Data Sources Data Sources are external information stored in cloud In and most canvas apps use external information. The most common data sources are tables and list hosted on O365 or on-premise SharePoint environment. Data sources o...