If you’ve been building Power Apps for a while, you know the pain of creating dialog boxes. You had to overlay containers, mess with visibility variables, add close buttons, and write a bunch of code just to ask users a simple “Are you sure?” question. Well, Microsoft finally worked on this and released the Power … read more…
While working with Power Apps and Power Platform, sometimes you need something called the Environment ID. This usually happens when you work with PowerShell, Power Automate, APIs, or admin tasks. In one of my real project scenarios, I needed the Environment ID to complete an automation task. At first, it was not clear where to … read more…
While building an SPFx web part to show upcoming employee birthdays, I ran into a common problem. Most users didn’t have their birthday information available. At first, I tried fetching the data directly from Azure Active Directory using Microsoft Graph. That’s when I realized something important: an employee’s birthday is not an editable property in … read more…
Have you ever written a Power Apps formula that looked like a jumbled mess of ampersands (&) and quotation marks? Something like “Hello ” & TextInput1.Text & “, your order total is $” & Text(varTotal, “0.00”) & ” and will be delivered on ” & Text(varDate, “mm/dd/yyyy”)? Yeah, I’ve been there too. It works, but … read more…
Imagine you’re buried under a mountain of emails, spreadsheets, and meeting notes, trying to pull together a report for your boss before end of day. You could spend hours copying data, rewriting summaries, and hunting for insights. That’s where Microsoft 365 Copilot steps in as your quick helper. But if your team needs something more … read more…
If you’ve ever tried importing a Power Apps solution into a new environment and suddenly hit this error below: You’re not alone. This error is frustrating, confusing, and honestly… poorly explained by Microsoft. I personally faced this issue while importing a solution into a new Power Platform environment. The import failed. The connections picker didn’t … read more…
Yesterday, I was trying to create a Copilot agent for a marketing SharePoint site. The goal was to help employees quickly find files and documents. But there was a problem: Even though SharePoint permissions were in place, I wanted additional protection so that users without proper access would not see sensitive content at all. So … read more…
When I build Power Apps solutions for clients, SharePoint lists are almost always part of the setup. And most of the time, these lists require many fields. Sometimes 30. Sometimes 40+. Manually creating them was a big waste of time. So I started using PnP PowerShell to automate this.One script -> Run it once -> … read more…
Recently, a client brought our Power Apps employee leave management application and requested customizations to align with their business standards. While making those changes, I noticed a few duplicate environment variables and decided to clean them up. Unfortunately, one of those variables was still linked to the app, and deleting it also deleted the entire … read more…
During a recent Power Apps project, I had to work with a SharePoint document library containing various document types, including PDFs, Word documents, Excel files, and images. In the Power Apps app, these files were shown inside a gallery. By default, users could only see the file name, which was not very helpful. End users … read more…
I was working on a Power Automate flow that was moved from one environment to another. The flow was running, but it was using the wrong connections. Because of this, the flow started failing or sometimes ran under the wrong user account. After checking the flow settings, I found that the issue was related to … read more…
Last year in December, I wrote a detailed blog post on how to create a custom agent using Agent Builder. Agent Builder is a no-code platform, and it makes it very easy to create agents without writing any code. At that time, if we wanted to extend the agent with advanced triggers, tools, or custom … read more…
Imagine you are building an app that needs to display a quick summary of information, such as a list of employees, documents, or products. Instead of placing many separate controls on the screen, you can use Cards to keep everything clean and organized. Power Apps recently released a new modern control called Card that helps users display … read more…
When building SPFx web parts, the property pane is the primary way to let users configure how the web part behaves without touching any code. In one of our SharePoint Online projects, we needed to show list or library data directly on a modern page and still allow site owners to choose which list and how many … read more…
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