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While working with Power Apps and Power Automate for the IT Help Desk, I encountered the following error after adding a flow to the Power Apps app and later modifying it to add new SharePoint actions. This usually happens when the Power Automate flow connection reference is not properly synced with the Power Apps app. … read more…
Recently, while working on an Expense Claim application in Power Apps, I noticed one common problem faced by employees and finance teams. Whenever users submitted an expense claim, they had to manually enter all invoice details, such as: Even though all these details were already available inside the invoice PDF or image, users still had … read more…
If you’ve ever needed to pull out just part of a text string in Power Apps – like grabbing the first name from a full name, or extracting a year from an invoice code – you’re in the right place. Power Apps doesn’t have a single function called “Substring” the way some other languages do. … read more…
If you’ve spent any time building apps in Power Apps, you’ve probably run into a situation where you need to work with dates — calculate a due date, find records from the last 30 days, auto-fill an expiry date, or convert UTC time to local time. That’s exactly where the DateAdd function comes in. It’s simple, flexible, … read more…
If you’ve ever needed to figure out what day of the week a date falls on inside Power Apps, the Weekday function is exactly what you’re looking for. I use it all the time for things like skipping weekends in date pickers, highlighting working days, or just showing the day name next to a date. In this … read more…
If you’ve been building Canvas Apps for a while, you’ve probably run into a situation where you need to update data in a SharePoint list or a collection. That’s when you start wondering: should I use Power Apps Update, UpdateIf, or Patch? I get this question a lot. In this tutorial, I’m going to break down Update and … read more…
If you’ve ever built a Power Apps canvas app and wondered why your gallery isn’t showing the latest data — even after someone just added a new record — the Refresh() Function is your answer. In this tutorial, I’m going to walk you through exactly what the Refresh function does, when to use it, and how to … read more…
If you’ve built a Power Apps form connected to a SharePoint list and it just keeps scrolling down forever — you know the pain. Users hate it. Tabs fix that instantly. In this tutorial, I’ll show you exactly how to create tabs in Power Apps, walk you through a real example with a SharePoint list, … read more…
If you’ve been building apps in Power Apps for any length of time, you’ve probably hit a moment where a connector you wanted to use suddenly flagged your app as “Premium.” And then came the question: wait, does this mean everyone using my app now needs a paid license? Yes, it does. This is one of … read more…
If you’ve spent any time building apps in Power Apps, you’ve almost certainly hit this exact question: Should I store my data in a SharePoint list or in Dataverse? It’s one of those decisions that feels simple on the surface but can seriously affect how your app performs, scales, and behaves six months down the road. … read more…
If you’ve recently tried creating a new Calculated Column in Dataverse, you may have already seen a yellow warning banner that says something like: “The Calculated behavior will eventually be discontinued.” That’s Microsoft telling you it’s time to move on. Formula Columns are the replacement — and honestly, once you get familiar with them, they’re better. … read more…
If you’ve been building apps on SharePoint lists for a while, there comes a point where you start hitting walls — performance, security roles, relationships between tables, or just the general feeling that you’ve outgrown lists. That’s usually when Dataverse starts looking very attractive. I’ve been through this migration more than once, and in this … read more…
If you’ve ever built a Power Apps canvas app that connects to a SharePoint document library, you’ve probably hit this question at some point — how do I create a folder in SharePoint directly from my app? It’s a really common requirement. Think about it: you’re building an app where users submit a project, and you … read more…
If you’ve been building canvas apps in Power Apps for a while, you’ve probably hit this question at some point: “How do I know which screen the user is currently on?” Maybe you want to show a dynamic title in a header. Maybe you’re building a shared navigation component and want it to highlight the active … read more…
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