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Category: canvas apps

How to use JOSN data in Canvas APP received from a web API response

To use the JSON response of a Custom Connector in a Canvas App in Power Apps, you can access, parse, and display the data directly within the app. Here’s a step-by-step guide to achieve this. You can watch the video or scroll down to read. Step 1: Add the Custom Connector to Power Apps 💡…
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Canvas App Components Custom Properties – Event Types and Data

Canvas Apps in Power Apps allow developers to create reusable components that simplify app design and ensure consistency. Custom properties are the key to making components dynamic, configurable, and interactive. This blog will explore Custom Properties of type Events and Data, and dive into Actions and Functions to understand their use cases. What Are Custom…
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How to create a Confirm Box in Canvas App Power Apps

A Confirm Box in Canvas Apps is an interactive feature that prompts users to confirm an action before proceeding. This ensures actions like deletions, updates, or submissions are deliberate, reducing the chances of errors. Since PowerApps doesn’t have a built-in confirm dialog, you can implement a custom solution using popups and logic controls. Watch the…
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How to access multi-level hierarchical parental table columns in canvas app gallery

Learn How to access multi-level hierarchical parental table columns in canvas app gallery. Use Dot Operator to access. WAtch full video here. Hope it helps.

Paging in Gallery in Canvas App Power Apps

You can easily implement paging concept for your gallery in canvas APP. follow below steps to achieve this. watch full video here or read the article. Step 1 : Create a Hidden Blank Gallery First in the screen add a blank gallery and connect to Datasource table. Set Visible to False. Name it as galHidden.…
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Most used PowerFX in Canvas APP List

In Power Apps, specifically when creating Canvas apps, lists play a crucial role in managing data and performing various operations. Power Fx, the formula language for Power Apps, includes several important list functions. Here are some of the most important Power Fx list functions commonly used in Canvas apps: 

Exporting and Importing Solutions in Power Apps: A Comprehensive Guide

Introduction Power Apps solutions are a powerful tool for managing and deploying customizations. Solutions bundle components like entities, fields, views, charts, flows, and canvas apps into a single package, making it convenient to move them from one environment to another. Power Apps offers a robust solution framework that allows developers and administrators to package and…
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Bind Lookup Field in Edit Form Canvas App Polymorphic lookup with Dataverse Customer Data type

Use following PowerFX. Use a Dropdown for Customer Data Type in custom card of the form. For the Drop Down in Items Property Use below formula to populate dynamic values. On Items property add below code. On Default property add below PowerFX to auto populate selected value from record. On Custom Card Update property use…
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Handle error in form submission in canvas app power apps

Handle error in form submission in canvas app power apps. watch below video.

Bind Choice field to combo box in canvas app power apps

To bind combo box control with choice field from Dataverse, you need to use below PowerFX in the items property of the control. Now all the items will display as items of the combo box. But by default combo box allows to select multiple items at a time. if you want to restrict users to…
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With function in PowerFX Canvas App

In Canvas App PowerFX, you can use with function to define variables with a limited scope. Without using Local or Global variable or Collection Variable, you can scoped variables using WITH function. Here sample PowerFX mentioned using variables and corresponding with function. Scenario : Extract all accounts with name MS and update all records with…
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Download File using PowerFX in Power Apps Canvas App

You can download online Files to your local machine using PowerFX. Follow below steps. Step 1 : Create a Canvas App with components In Power Apps maker, create a canvas app and add a button component on screen and add below PowerFX in OnSelect property. Download(“https://grad.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/cvsamples.pdf”) Hope this helps.

Get set Combo-Box value with choice column in canvas app Power Apps

In Canvas App, Combo Box can be used to display choice columns to select one item at a time or multi-item at a time. Here in this post you will learn how to connect Choice columns to a combo-box and dynamically get and set value using PowerFX. Watch the video below. Hope this helps.

Update all changes of a collection into Data Source from Canvas App Power Apps

Collection is a better way to store local data without connecting data source directly. This makes apps faster. But if you forget to update to actual data source, the changes done to the collection data, you will loose all updates once you close the app. So its very important to send collection updates back to…
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Filter dependent lookups/combo boxes in Canvas App or Custom Page with Dataverse

Most of the times in business requirements, you might need to implement Dependent Option sets/lookups in Canvas Apps power apps or custom pages to display related set of records depending on parent record selection. Take a business scenario below. Business Scenario There are 3 tables Contacts, Bank Accounts and Transactions. One contact may have multiple…
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Add CSS Styles to Canvas App Power Apps Use Box border shadow for button look and feel

This post will explain how you can add CSS using HTML coding inside Canvas App. You will see how the normal rectangle can be converted to a 3D division given in below screenshot. Follow the steps below. Step 1: Create a Canvas App and select a Screen to add HTML Text component Inside your canvas…
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Barcode scanner app using canvas app power apps and capture customer signature using pen component

For every delivery business, you must need to capture the delivery information and its status. When a delivery boy delivers the product, the delivery need to scan the barcode of the physical product and capture signature of the customer so that the data will be saved in Dataverse. if you want to know how to…
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Debug a Published canvas App using Monitor Feature inside Power Apps

If you have published a canvas app and it throws some error and you want to debug, you can do it. First you have to enable the Debug published feature for your power apps using power apps settings. Open the Power Apps studio and go to settings and enable the feature given the below screenshot.…
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Working with Monitor features in Canvas Apps Power Apps

Monitor feature inside canvas app studio helps tracing events as they occur in a canvas app during the authoring in Power Apps Studio, or you can use Monitor to debug the published version of a canvas app. Follow the steps to monitor a scenario to know how to Monitor a canvas app while authoring. Step…
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Display only current user records using powerfx in canvas app gallery

Most of the times you need to filter records of a gallery in canvas app to display only records created by current login user. So how can you do this. You can use below PowerFX for the gallery. The below power fx uses search functionality with filter to only fetch created by user is current…
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Build Online Exam Full Project Canvas Power Apps with PowerFX

Here is this post you will came to know how to build an online Power Apps for online Exams. Follow these steps below. Step 1 – Configure Dataverse First you need to configure tables and columns to store exam and questions in Dataverse. There are three tables required One to store exams, second to store…
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Expected polymorphic value canvas app

if you are getting this error in canvas app that means you are not assigning a correct polymorphic data type. Use the Power FX as given below screenshot Hope this helps. Create a lookup function and assign it.

Polymorphic lookup field Value CRUD operation from Canvas App with Dataverse

You might have used polymorphic lookup field which can hold reference of multiple tables like Customer Data Type which can hold contact or account. SO for this type of complex data types its is not straight forward to handle CRUD operation from canvas app. Let us see here how to Create a record in Dataverse…
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Text counter in Canvas Apps Power Apps

Some requirement needs to have a counter so that when we type text inside a text input the label will show the maximum character or how many character left to enter. For this requirement take one label to display counter and one text input having multiline text mode. Select the label and in the Text…
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Check field value numeric in Power Apps canvas apps

Sometimes we need to validate fields to match with a numeric only like Ages, No. of days etc. So for this scenarios we need to use some PowerFX to validate form fields. Let us see how we can achieve this. Take 3 controls on the canvas app. one Text Input and two text labels. One…
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