If you’ve ever tried to send a GIF in Microsoft Teams and the option just wasn’t there — or worse, it showed up once and then disappeared — you’re not alone. This is one of the most common questions Teams users ask, and the answer isn’t always obvious because there are several places that control … read more…
If you’ve ever connected a Power Apps dropdown to a SharePoint list and ended up with the same value appearing 15 times, you know how frustrating that can be. Your users don’t need to see “Marketing” repeated over and over — they just want to pick it once and move on. In this tutorial, I’m … read more…
Let me be honest — the first time I needed to screenshot something in a Teams meeting, I fumbled around for a good minute. There’s no dedicated “screenshot” button in Teams, which throws a lot of people off. But once you know the right methods, it takes less than two seconds. In this article, I’ll … read more…
If you’ve ever built a Power Apps canvas app connected to a SharePoint list, you’ve probably run into a situation where you only need one record — the first one in a list, the most recent entry, or just the top result from a filtered query. That’s exactly where the First function in Power Apps comes in handy. In … read more…
If you’ve ever been in the middle of an important Teams meeting and suddenly a bunch of notification banners start popping up across your screen, you know how distracting that is. Someone sends you a message. A channel post comes in. A reminder fires off. And now your entire team can see those pop-ups on … read more…
If you’ve built even one Power Apps canvas app, you already know that adding and editing records is straightforward. But deleting them? That’s where most people get stuck, or worse, they write a formula that silently does nothing. In this tutorial, I’m going to walk you through everything you need to know about the Remove function … read more…
When I first started working with solutions in the Power Platform, I mostly ignored the Preferred Solution setting. I created apps, flows, and tables directly in the default environment and didn’t think much about where those components were stored. Later, when the project grew, and I started organizing components inside solutions, I realized something important: … read more…
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…
If you’ve ever opened someone else’s Power Apps canvas app and had absolutely no idea what Label5, TextInput3, or Variable2 is supposed to do — you already know why naming conventions matter. And honestly, I’ve been there too. I’ve come back to my own apps after a few weeks and spent 20 minutes figuring out what I built. That’s … 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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