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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 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…
When I was working on an IT Help Desk solution, I needed to retrieve the most recent record using Power Automate and send it to Power Apps. Initially, everything was working fine. I was sorting the list by ID (Descending) to get the latest item. However, during testing, once the list exceeded 5,000 records, the … read more…
As we know, in Power Apps, we cannot technically combine multiple global variables into a single ‘Set’ statement, which often results in a long, repetitive code list. Let’s say, if you have been writing code like this in Power Apps: Set(varName, “John”);Set(varAge, 30);Set(varCity, “New York”);Set(varIsLoggedIn, true); …there’s a better way. You can absolutely set multiple … read more…
If you’ve ever connected a SharePoint list to Power Apps and tried to read a choice column, you’ve probably run into a wall. You write ThisItem.Status expecting to see “Approved” — and instead you get something like {Value: “Approved”}. That’s confusing the first time you see it. The reason is simple: a choice field in SharePoint is not … read more…
Let me show you something that trips up a lot of folks when they’re building Power Apps. You’ve got a dropdown menu, and you want it to show a specific value by default—pulled straight from your SharePoint list. Sounds simple, right? Well, it can be a bit tricky if you don’t know the exact steps. … read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Building software for your business isn’t what it used to be. Now, you’ve got two main options: low-code platforms like Power Apps or classic development with professional coders. Each approach comes with different costs, timelines, and strengths. Some work better for certain projects than others. Power Apps is great for simple internal tools that need … read more…
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