If you’ve spent any time managing documents in SharePoint, you’ve probably asked yourself: Should I use a folder or a document set here? On the surface, they both seem to do the same thing — group documents together. But once you dig deeper, you’ll realize they’re quite different and built for different situations. In this tutorial, I’ll … read more…
When I was working on an IT Help Desk solution using Power Apps and Power Automate, I needed to get ticket data using Power Automate and send it to Power Apps. Everything was working fine at first. But the problem started when I tried to get data from a multi-select Person column called Assigned To. … read more…
If you’ve ever built a Power Apps form and needed users to pick an employee from a dropdown, you know the pain. The list just shows “John,” but there are three Johns in your SharePoint list. Users have no idea which one to pick. That’s exactly the problem this tutorial solves. I’ll walk you through … read more…
Recently, while working on an IT Help Desk solution in Power Apps, I tried to retrieve all the records using Power Automate to avoid delegation issues. However, we cannot retrieve all the records at once. To solve this, I implemented pagination, where records are loaded page by page. After completing the development, when I ran … read more…
If you’ve ever built a form in Power Apps, you already know this problem. A user fills in some fields, submits the form, and then all that text just sits there. They have to manually delete everything before entering the next record. Not a great experience. Clearing text input fields sounds simple, but there’s more … read more…
If you’ve ever opened a SharePoint document library and found hundreds of files dumped in with no structure, you already know the pain. Folders are one of the simplest ways to bring order to the chaos — and creating them in SharePoint is easier than most people think. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through … read more…
One of the most common things people ask about when building Power Apps is this: “Why does my dropdown always show the first item when the app loads? How do I make it start blank?” Power Apps doesn’t give you an obvious “start blank” checkbox. But once you know the right approach, it’s pretty straightforward. In … read more…
If you’ve ever built a beautiful Power BI report and then had a colleague say, “Can you just send me the data in Excel?” — you know the feeling. You built all those visuals, and now someone wants a flat file. Microsoft provides multiple ways to get your Power BI data into Excel. In this … read more…
If you’ve ever built a Power Apps canvas app and wondered how to control what shows up in a combo box based on a button click, you’re in the right place. This is one of those things that trips a lot of people up because the combo box control behaves a little differently from other … read more…
